<p>I am a current senior and I am doing very well this semester so far, and will likely end up with around a 3.8 gpa for this semester. my current gpa is a 3.2 and if i do get like a 3.8 this semester, my overall gpa will go up to a 3.3. im taking 4 AP classes this semester.</p>
<p>for my SATs, i am likely to get at least a 2100 on my retake scheduled for december. currently all my highest sections added up, i have a 2040.</p>
<p>should i apply early to some of my reach schools? these include NYU, USC, BC.</p>
<p>Haha I got REALLY excited when I saw this, because I am in a similar situation too!!! I had a high GPA all throughout high school until junior year (which is bad because first of all, junior year is most important i think, and second of all, because it is a downward trend). It went down to about 90 for junior year. and in my senior year I think I can get like a 98, maybe 99. (Btw this is out of 100, i dont know exactly how it converts on a 3.0 scale). So early decision and early action have an obvious advantage, because the college likes to see that somebody is very interested, right? I mean I know that some colleges try to claim that it doesn’t help all that much and that somebody wouldn’t get in early if they wouldn’t get in, during the regular application round. But don’t you think that it does help a little, and that it could definitely give someone a push if the admissions committee was having a hard time deciding on them? So are you wondering if it would be more advantageous to apply early and have the obvious advantage that early decision/ early action provides or if you should wait until you have your higher grades so that your GPA is higher? That is the exact dilemma hat I have. With the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Sorry to be rambling a lot, but I have a question about early decision and early action. I know that admissions committees put some applicants from early decision in the regular decision round if they are no sure that they want to accept them yet, but are there any colleges that defer all early decision applicants to the regular round, and reconsider them all? It seems like I read about a college being like that before, but I don’t know. Plus another thing is if I waited until regular decision I would have two chances to retake the SAT instead of just one more chance. And I got a 2100 (630 math, 670 critical reading, 800 writing). Any tips? Do you have any idea what I should do? You can ask me questions too, I would be interested to hear them!</p>
<p>And by the way, I think you SHOULD apply early to NYU or BC or the other one, I think you have a chance at any. So which one is your top choice?</p>
<p>I would say that both of you should apply Early Decision/Action. It does show your interest to most schools, and both of you seem to have a reasonable chance of getting in. You can always send in your mid-year reports later if you get in. I’m not sure what NYU, UChicago, etc. policies they have, but with college i’m applying to (Villanova), if you don’t get accepted under Early Action, the worst that can happen is that you would be waitlisted to Regular Decision. And even then, you could still get in.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your response it was really helpful! I’m really glad you think I at least have a chance of getting into University of Chicago. And, thats interesting, because I swore that I read somewhere that some colleges didn’t reject any applicants in the early decision round, and if they were not accepted early decision, they would be put in the regular decision pool. So since Villanova does that, some others must too! I wonder if University of Chicago does. Thanks for the info, it really helped out! Villanova is really a reallt great school and it’s really pretty too isnt it?</p>
<p>If you mean boston college I would say forget it. My neighbor had a 4.3 with near perfect sats, lots of sports and activities, her parents both teach at jesuit schools and she is a minority and she got wait listed even after early decision.
BC also is probably not the place for an international boarding student. The school is catholic, rich, preppy and run of the mill american</p>
<p>I’m also going to apply EA to Chicago. I got a 34 on the ACT, have a 3.95 UW GPA (ranked 7 out of 318), and participate in a ton of EC’s, but looking at the posts from last year I’m really worried about it. Chicago sounds really tough to get into, almost as diffucult as an Ivy…</p>
<p>BC has not been that tough to get into the last couple of years. They’ve been taking students in the top 20% of their high school class and SAT’s around 1800. Don’t hessitate to apply.</p>