<p>I applied to these schools so far:
Rutgers NB arts&science and business
Fordham Gabelli school of business
Quinnipiac business
Franklin&Marshall</p>
<p>I had a really bad freshman year because of very unfortunate family issues, and I finished the year with a couple d's... But I brought my gpa up to a 3.48 W now. I have taken 4 APs up to date.
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<p>I have myriad amount of ECs, so i'm not concerned about boring you with that. </p>
<p>Please let me know my chances at all of these, especially rutgers and f&m, since they are my main schools!!</p>
<p>With an upward trend I’ll chance you with a 3.48 UW.</p>
<p>Rutgers SAS: Safety (in-state; Rutgers takes a lot of in-staters with 3.48 and worse SAT scores)/Low match (OOS)
Rutgers business: Match
Fordham business: Match
Quinnipiac business: Safety
F&M: Match</p>
<p>I’d classify Fordham and Rutgers as high matches for you(you have around a 45% chance of being accepted). Your SAT and extracurriculars are good for all of the schools you listed. Your GPA hurts, but if it was caused by family issues like you said, the schools may look past it. Make sure to write about your family issues in the optional essays and explain why they hindered your academic performance.
I think you have very good chances for quinnipiac, however I couldn’t find much info on
franklin and Marshall so I can’t give you an opinion there.</p>
<p>Unfortunately my 3.48 is weighted. My UW is 3.061 =\ But I have spoken to Rutgers about my freshman year grades, and even have a testimonial attached to my application. I’m a NJ resident as well, hispanic too. My common app essay explains all my difficulties i’ve gone through, so I hope that puts me on even playing ground with other applicants.</p>
<p>My classes now consist of 3 APs, and all other honors. I have all A’s except for AP Spanish, which is a B+. My grades show an exponential increase from freshman year as well</p>
<p>The key question, what is your GPA after freshman year? They will not focus on freshman year of you have an upward trend! I think you are UN great shape! Do you have time for a few more with 1/15 deadlines? How about Bucknell? Lehigh? F and M solid match!</p>
<p>Freshman year GPA: 1.80
I never want to see that GPA again lol. I wish I could fix that, but oh well. Life goes on.</p>
<p>But @Murphy600 I have a “statistically impossible” upward trend, so I hope colleges can sympathize. But Lehigh would be a huge reach, wouldn’t they? And I thought my reaches would be:
Rensselaer
Stevens Institute
and F&M</p>