please help me!

<p>Hi, I was wondering what my chances are getting into any of the following schools. Although my gpa is fairly low, my school is nationally ranked and known as one of the best/most challenging schools in the US. My dean says that the gpa will be considered as much higher (hopefully(. Anyways I have around a 2.8 and although I am not done with the SATs (im taking them once more) so far I have a 600 in both writing and reading and a 520 in math which I am hoping to seriously improve. </p>

<p>Ive been looking at
- college of charleston - university of south carolina - university of georgia - university of pittsburgh - umass amherst - miami univ, oxford</p>

<p>and some safty schools are eugene lang, arizona state, ithaca, ohio univ</p>

<p>I am looking for schools in/very close to a city (or urban area) and a plus would be a good music scene preferably indie/alternative/rock</p>

<p>I think that UGA and Pitt will be very tough. Looking good for ASU. Not sure on the others. Best of luck!</p>

<p>College of Charleston and USC you have a decent chance at Arizona State is also a match. Sadly your dean is wrong in this case about your gpa being looked at as much higher. Your SAT scores are fairly close to a match for the gpa. That said Oxford, Miami U, and Umass Amherst are probably out of reach. If you want a school close to a city with a great music scene look at Texas State University. It is within 20 minutes of Austin, TX which is btw the live music capital of the world the host of South by Southwest every year and having lived both there and Charleston SC I would say the indie/alternative/rock scene is better in Austin. I will give you however that the radio stations in Chucktown are way better.</p>

<p>Ok so I got back my ACT scores, it was the first time I took them so I might take them once more in september… But I got a 30 in english and a 24 in math and my composite score was a 26 basically because I did horrible in science. </p>

<p>Do you think this makes any difference to any colleges???</p>