<p>hey guys just a quick question:</p>
<p>If i have a 3.5 UW gpa with the hardest classes (5 AP's) school offers 6, but then i get a 2250 on my SAT does it make up for my 3.5 UW ?</p>
<p>I also attend Whitney High School in California (#1 public high school in California/ #3 in the nation) if that means anything</p>
<p>I'm also an African-American student</p>
<p>I'm looking at schools like UCLA, UCSD, and USC</p>
<p>no school will rule you out on soley one element of your app. so don't gie your hopes up at all.
You have a good SAT and they will take those AP classes into consideration.
Just try and improve your GPA and I think that you stand a good chance at those schools.</p>
<p>btw. is Whitney in LA ?</p>
<p>I think you're in to those 3 schools. An AA from a strong high school with a 2250 is a rare bird. With great recs and app you can try the top schools, not saying you're a shoo in, but you'd be looked at hard by HYPS.</p>
<p>You're in. Apply to even more selective schools. I know people from Whitney and so do college adcoms. It's extremely rigorous.</p>
<p>wait
not the Whitney in rocklin right, cause that school is a joke.</p>
<p>yea whitney is in cerritos, cali which is part of los angeles</p>
<p>um. uc's aren't allowed to look at race. apply to some other schools other than uc's. you have a great shot at alot of other places w/ urm status and your sat scores.</p>
<p>True, and you can do so much better than a UC undergrad. Cal, LA and SD have amazing grad programs, but you can do better undergrad.....</p>
<p>3.5 at whitney = gg.</p>
<p>my math teacher went to whitney and he said 50% of the people there went to ucla, cal, or ucsd, 29% when to east coast ivy/stanford, and 20% when to lac. somewhere around those percentages, and the average sat score of whitney is like 2030 and the next highest in the state of california is 1910. i think 3.5 will do as long as you have other stuff going for you.</p>
<p>If you want to stay in California you should apply to Caltech, Stanford, Pomona, Harvey mudd, and Claremont mckenna.</p>
<p>The schools listed by Sheed, while certainly all excellent, include a few that are not at all appropriate for students outside of select interest areas (just for the record).</p>
<p>Also, bear in mind that there's a lot to your application other than GPA and test scores. You have plenty of other ways to set yourself apart from the crowds of students who will have higher GPAs from less rigorous schools. Try to focus on such opportunities.</p>
<p>Though some previous posters have indicated that your current choices are beneath you, I'd say apply anyway, especially to private schools. Every school you've mentioned is respectable enough that a shot at merit money (or URM-based scholarships at some schools) would make it well worth considering.</p>
<p>Finally, talk to counselors about your concern. See what they say about students in similar positions. Certain schools might be known for accepting many Whitney students and thus looking past your GPA, or recognizing it for an exceptional achievement. Also, put the 3.5 in a context for us. Just because a school is high-quality does not mean that it grades particularly harshly. Do most of your comparably-intelligent/talented peers have 4.0s or 3.0s? Do you have a 3.5 because you go to an excellent school that's stingy with A's, and you've really excelled to get what you have, or do you have a 3.5 because you've slacked off, thinking that you can ride on the name of your school? Those are just random examples, in no way meant to be accusatory, but it's the type of question that comes to mind when looking at your situation. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>u'll definitely get into those 3. why don't u try for some ivies, stanford, duke and such-like schools.</p>