<p>please chance for schools like Johns hopkins, ivies, Duke and northwestern.
I am planning to apply to duke as ed
I am planning to major in sociology or IR.</p>
<p>I'm an Asian Male student
SAT: 720 CR, 800 M, 760 W
SAT 2: 780 M2, 800 US </p>
<p>Freshmen gpa:2.1/3.6 (UW) I know it's bad
Sop gpa: 3.4/ 3.8 (UW) bad first semaster
Junior: 3.9/3.9 (UW)
so I have pretty bad freshman gpa. Thou I have a good excuse for that. I had a problem with hazing. About 5 people got kicked out from school and few got suspended. I was a victim of it.</p>
<p>Ap : us 5 government 5 calculus 5 statistic 5 </p>
<p>ECS:
Math Team: captain
Badminton Team: Founder/president
Debate team: researcher/ team leader
Soccer- Varsity
international student club- founder/president
NHS- President
Spanish Club- co-founder
Table Tennis: Founder
adviser for people with video game addiction.</p>
<p>Volunteer Work:
I have helped children with game addiction for few years. </p>
<p>Academic Honors:
AMC School winner 3 years in a raw
best Junior GPA
best spanish student award 2 years in a raw</p>
<p>Internship
:Embassy
Research project with professor in China</p>
<p>So I just calculated your cumulative GPA which is a 3.1, which means probably not for ivies, John Hopkins, Northwestern and Duke. Your scores are great, your ECs are so, so (how many hours you have will effect their strength) and some schools will probably consider your reason for low grades freshman year a legitimate reason. So that being said I don’t think your chances are great, though knowing that they are probably all a high reach I would recommend choosing 2-3 that you really like and applying to more realistic schools for the rest of your applications.</p>
<p>what would be the realistic schools for me ? I know my overall gap is pretty low, but I heard that colleges don’t put much weights on freshmen GPA. Also despite my low overall GPA, I am still top 5th in our school.</p>
<p>The other guy is wrong and didn’t calculate your GPA right. Assuming you took the same number of credits each year you would have a 3.45 and your right, schools don’t put as much weight on freshman year and some don’t even review it at all. You have a shot, but DEFINITELY find some safer schools.</p>
<p>i don’t think it will make any difference but my transcript says that i have something like 3.5. Also I got national merit scholarship with psat score of 240. My counselor also told me that she can write a excuse letter about my freshman year.</p>
<p>You have a chance. My councilor says I have a chance and I had a 2.9 in my freshman and sophomore years and a 3.7 in my junior year (also come from a competitive school so that isn’t necessarily horrible). My 3.2 GPA doesn’t reflect me and my councilor seems to think I have a shot at Maryland and Virginia Tech engineering programs with it. Yours is similar to mine, except to a greater scale (and you had a better sophomore year). Apply and see what happens. Even if it is just so you don’t regret not applying and your not stuck saying “what if I had applied to…insert college…they had accepted me” I would rather be there. Apply, you have a chance.</p>