Should I Still Apply?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Central Florida
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<p>So maybe a week before my January 15th deadline for the rest of my applications, I was looking at other schools to apply to. I came across UCF and noticed the later deadline, so I put it aside for later if I was still up for sending an application. Now that my semester's almost over, I was reconsidering it and I actually like the idea of going to a nice school in warm Florida. But since they recommend applying between September and December, should I even apply? I already applied to RPI, American, GMU, and Virginia Tech, and I have been accepted to Tech already. Since I'm OoS, I really the dorm housing, so would that be a possible issue when applying late? Will I even get in still? Here are some of my stats:</p>

<p>OOS from Virginia
Female Asian
3.4 UW/ 3.68 W (but I looked at the way they reconvert and we do it a lot differently)
SATs: 1870 (640 CR, 640 M, 590 W)
IB Diploma Candidate (have taken all IB MYP, AP, or IB classes. Been in IB MYP since 6th grade.)
Rank: 82/432</p>

<p>APs: Gov- 3, CompSci- 3, Spanish- 4, Psych- 4, now taking Environmental Science and Stat.
IB: CompSci SL- 6, Math Studies SL- 6, this year will take English HL, History HL, Spanish HL, and Biology HL.</p>

<p>Honors include NHS, Spanish HS, Mu Alpha Theta, Honorable Mention for National Spanish Exam, and AP Scholar.</p>

<p>A ton of EC's. Yearbook Editor-in-Chief, Class Reporter (three years as officer), Leadership Workshop Staff, Student Cooperative Association (SCA) Committee Chairman & Executive Council Member (two years), and a lot of member positions.</p>

<p>Lots of community service as well. My biggest one is that I'm the City-Wide SCA Historian/Reporter and also I'm Co-Coordinator of a Middle School Leadership Workshop.</p>

<p>So in case that was tl;dr: in summary, should I even bother still applying and if I do apply, do I still have a chance of getting in?</p>

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<p>I think you should still apply. The GPA may be a little bit of an issue but your scores are good. And don’t worry about not being able to get housing just yet. A lot of people haven’t signed up for housing yet because they are waiting on other decisions and there are a lot of people that haven’t gotten decisions yet .</p>

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<p>For GPA, do they look more at weighted or unweighted? Because my school system weights grades in an extremely different way. For example, honors and Pre-IB/MYP courses aren’t weighted at all as opposed to the .5 extra “quality points” given to honors by UCF and AP/IB are weighted so that if ou get an A you get an extra .0244, if you get a B you get an extra .0183 and a continuing trend like that, as opposed to the extra 1 “quality point”. Do you think their recalculation and my AP and IB heavy schedule may help me out?</p>