<p>My guidance counsler told me my GPA was a 3.5, later it was raised to a 3.6 and will be a 3.7 by application time next year if my grades continue in the trend they are going in (all A's, some B's)</p>
<p>Point is I was told that was my GPA. Bam. Right there. That's what I'm sending to colleges. But now everyone is saying that the school's only release our weighted GPAs and the unweighted ones don't get calculated. So I went back on my old report cards and calculated my unweighted GPA which was a 3.3.</p>
<p>Needless to say my heart stopped beating. Here I was doing so "well" for the college I wanted to go to.</p>
<p>The college is Christopher Newport University. Their GPA mid-range is 3.3-3.9. Their average GPA is a 3.7. They put in parenthesis on a 4.0 scale (yet I was talking to a counsler there and they said that was weighted GPAs- so I don't know what's going on there)</p>
<p>I take all AP classes with a couple honors classes, my SATs are getting increasingly better, they are at the higher end of the school's SAT mid-range, my EC's are great, I have awesome teacher recommendations, my essay is flawless according to all the adults I had read it- I'm a Writing major so it'd better be, and I am in the top 15% of my class. My school is really hard. We have super strict grading rules and teachers. I have friends in the top half who only have 2.9 GPAs.</p>
<p>I'm also applying Early Decision. Every year about 300 people apply ED and 75% of them get in. </p>
<p>What do you think about this? I'm so confused. My guidance counsler is a joke and won't give me a straight answer, my teachers keep saying "Oh you have a great GPA. You'll get in." What the hell? If it is my weighted GPA that the school wants me to be so proud of then it doesn't mean a thing, because CNU is going to see my 3.3 and write me off. </p>
<p>Can you tell me if I still have a shot?</p>