<p>I'm from New Jersey and I am Asian</p>
<p>GPA: 3.93 (Weighted, but my school has a very different scale. Will colleges be able to tell?)
LAST and BEST SAT: 2200 (CR:760 M:720 W: 720)
SUPERSCORE: 2280 (CR:760 M:800 W:720)
Rank: 4/300ish
A.P. Scholar with honor junior year and possible A.P. Scholar with distinction next year</p>
<p>Classes:
Rigorous schedule composed of honors and A.P.'s
Sophomore Year: A.P. European History
Junior Year: A.P. Gov., Biology, U.S. History, and Lang and Comp.
Senior Year: A.P. Calc, Computer Science, Physics 1, Environmental Science, Literature</p>
<p>ACTIVITIES:
-hundreds of community service hours (road cleanups, creek cleanups and other service opportunities provided within my clubs)
-Supervisor at my local elementary school
-Volunteer at my local library
-student tutor
-member of NHS in my school
-treasurer of Key Club
-Officer of my Human Rights Club
-Member of my environmental club
-Member of my Varsity Tennis Team and XC team</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in Computer Science. What are my chances at getting accepted into these Schools? and am I good enough for a scholarship?</p>
<p>for some reason my school doesn't give unwtd gpa....ugh, some schools im interested in are virginia tech, georgia tech, tcnj, rutgers and njit. Can you recommend anymore colleges for comp sci, im still very open? (I've always wanted to go to Cali for college but that doesn't seem possible with the outrageous OOS prices)</p>
<p>nice resumé, OP, lots of volunteer hours. Nice work with the SAT, too, as well as the rank. The weighted GPA is of little interest to the admissions officer. Your school will notify the AO how your weighted GPA is calculated, and the AO will translate it into an unwtd GPA. If you know your unwtd give it to us now.</p>
<p>What schools are you interested in? You should be able to get into some nice ones, maybe not the tippy-top but some nice ones. Give us a list and your unwtd gpa.</p>
<p>You didn’t specify what schools you’re interested in.</p>
<p>for some reason my school doesn’t give unwtd gpa…ugh, some schools im interested in are virginia tech, georgia tech, tcnj, rutgers and njit. Can you recommend anymore colleges for comp sci, im still very open? (I’ve always wanted to go to Cali for college but that doesn’t seem possible with the outrageous OOS prices)</p>
<p>OSS prices will be expensive at any CS program that you go to if it is a good school. But you could get financial aid or academic scholarships to help cover the costs.</p>
<p>@LostHobo143 @jkeil911 I forgot to put colleges but I have edited it now… thanks for the initial response</p>
<p>Virginia Tech definitely has a good CS program, I don’t know about any schools in NJ that are good though.</p>
<p>nobody said you had to go to a UC. there are lots of other schools in CA. </p>
<p>Well, it’s hard to make suggestions when we don’t know how to calculate your GPA. If your unwtd is 3.8, say, all the schools in post #3 are in play. If it’s 3.5, maybe GT is out of play, but even GT will have a hard time walking away from a 1560 super. It’s a reasonable list. Most OOS publics are not going to be forthcoming with aid. why not look at some privates where you might get some aid? </p>
<p>Run the net price calculators at each of your schools to get a sense of costs, of what the schools will expect your family to pay, the EFC. Take that figure to your folks and ask them how much they can provide to help you. With this info you’ll know if you need to go looking for schools with better need- or merit-based aid.</p>
<p>On the FA forum here on CC there are some pinned threads at the top that are helpful with finding aid.</p>
<p>@Jkeil911 First off I would like to thank you for the info, and I will definitely check out the stuff you said. Do you know if this is an accurate way to find out my unwtd if i know my grades: <a href=“How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>that’s no help for you unless you have a number scoring system (0-100). </p>
<p>do this if you have an A thru F scale and not a A+ thru D- scale:</p>
<p>give each A a 4, B a 3, C a 2. Add all the numbers up. Then add up the number of credits you have. Multiply the and divide the total number score by the number of credits. This will be a number like 3.5.</p>
<p>So let’s say that in 6 semesters of high school you have earned 30A’s, 10B’s, 2C’s.</p>
<p>A’s30 x 4= 120
B’s10 x 3= 30
C’s2 x 2= 4</p>
<p>That would mean a total of 154 points. Divide 154 by number of grades (42) times credits for each grade (1).</p>
<p>That would mean that your GPA is 3.67.</p>
<p>Each college will recalculate your grade so as to include only those courses that they want to consider. UC schools will for instance not use freshman grades/courses. </p>
<p>Did do that correctly?</p>
<p>@jkeil911 yes I have a number scoring system for example i can have an unofficial transcript that reads: class <em>whatever</em>: 94…if that is so than the scale would be fine correct?</p>
<p>well if you have honors or AP or IB courses where a 94, and you’re in a school district where 94 = A, and an AP A gets 5 points instead of 4, then those courses will get more points than the regular courses. e.g., A in AP course = 5, A in regular course = 4. So AP can really pump up the GPA, but because school districts weight (or don’t) AP, IB, and honors courses differently, the colleges have to have a way to level the scores for comparison purposes. That’s where the unwtd score comes in. With that, they can then look to see which courses you took in a rigorous fashion and what grades you received in them. So if you’re taking AP Calc and still getting As, schools are very happy: rigor + excellence. There are other ways this can work, but this is the only numeric grade scoring system with which I’m familiar.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 yeah in all of my courses AP, Honors, and required courses I am getting scores of 93 and up which is technically an A only have I gotten a B in 2 courses and those were with grades still above 90 so I believe my unweighted gpa should be up there, thank you for al the help!</p>
<p>if you have nothing but 2 B’s, then your wtd is pretty close to your unwtd. and that would fit your high rank, too, quite likely. </p>
<p>The OP is ranked 4/300, likely their unweighted GPA is fine. What isn’t clear is what the OP can afford and if they are likely to receive need based aid.</p>
<p>A couple of suggestions: Case Western has good CS and offers merit aid. Harvey Mudd is a reach, has great CS, but might only make sense to apply to if you are eligible for need based aid (they do have some merit, but it isn’t usually a lot and isn’t given out to lots of students).</p>
<p>with a maybe GPA of 3.9 and an SAT of 1480-1560, you are a candidate for admission for CS at every school. there are some that will look at your ECs and say “no,” and there are some that will look at an essay and say “no.” You can’t count on anything at the Top 20 schools. Most of them aren’t all that in CS anyway. Apply and forget about them.</p>
<p>However, everything below that is credible. The essays at the Next 20 don’t have to be great but they have to describe you as someone who will fit at that particular school. </p>
<p>The Next 60 you’re a match for. </p>
<p>The question that still needs to be addressed is affordability. You’re not going anywhere you cannot afford. The only way to have any idea if you can afford a school, unless you’re willing to full pay, is to run the net price calculators at each school. These will tell you how much you will get in need-based aid. If the EFC, the money the schools expect your parents to provide is untenable, then you’ll have to get some merit aid. There are schools that will give you full tuition or full ride with your stats. Check them out in the Financial Aid forum here.</p>
<p>@intparent well my finanacial situation is a single income of greater than 100,000… household of six, so i’m not so sure that I would qualify for need based</p>
<p>Do you know that each school has a net price calculator on their website you can use to help figure that out? Go to the financial aid page for each school’s website and look for the link. You need help from your parents to put the info in, and it will give you an idea of your possible financial aid package. It doesn’t show merit aid in most cases, but you can see if you might get need based aid and how much.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 well my financial situation is one income greater than 100,000 for a household of 6… so im not sure if i would qualify for finanacial aid</p>
<p>@jkeil911 also is their a link you can provide for this “forum” of possible merit scholarships… im new to this and can not seem to navigate my way?</p>