<p>so obviously I can't get into the admission officer's heads but I want your opinion on something.</p>
<p>a kid with 3.0 GPA and 36/2400 on ACT/SAT. 800 on SAT II and 5s on APs</p>
<p>Would you think this student is a slacker because he's actually smart? Or would you think he's just gifted and not a school-work related person? Any universities you might suggest?</p>
<p>An intelligent slacker is who you seem to be.</p>
<p>Well, what are your EC’s, before I suggest any colleges?</p>
<p>I would think that this is a kid who has undiagnosed Executive Function Disorder or undiagnosed ADD. I would tell this kid to get him/herself into the guidance office tomorrow morning, and to sit there until an appointment had been set up with the school psychologist and the resource teacher. I would tell this kid that once he/she masters the organizational skills that will help compensate for the previously undiagnosed LD, that his/her life will improve greatly, and that he/she will have a much greater chance of success in college.</p>
<p>Officer Positions:
-International President for a community service organization
-National Officer for a career development CTSO (career technical student organization, approved by the national state department of education as a co-curricular education)
-High School Class President</p>
<p>Awards and Honors:
-Public distinction from the California State legislature and department of education
-1st place Nationals Future Business Leaders of America competition
-AP Scholar Honor</p>
<p>Work Experience:
-Business Communications Intern for a financial management software company (founded by a student who went to UPenn)
-Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Financial Assistant</p>
<p>Pending Work:
-Founding and Development of an international non-profit competition based organization
-Intel ISEF, Intel Science Search, Siemens and Google Science Fair projects</p>
<p>Though my GPA is bad, I do have summer for-college credit Ivy league programs as well as community college classes. My college credit transcript GPA so far is a 3.7 UW</p>
<p>OK, obviously you are an intelligent individual, judging from your EC’s, and test scores.</p>
<p>However, it is clear to any college admissions officer that you did not work to your full potential in HS.</p>
<p>Your college transcript GPA is good. Why don’t you get your grades up in the first semester of your senior year, since they appear on your final transcript?</p>
<p>BTW, CIA Financial Assistant? Really?</p>
<p>yeah. the CIA website has high school senior internships and undergraduate internships. it’s just over the summer and I haven’t done it yet but I got accepted to go to DC this summer. It was under the IT, business administration and operations tab i think. So if you’re interested I think anyone can apply. The federal department of state has a similar program as well.</p>
<p>any potential colleges that you think I should apply to?</p>
<p>Strengths: EC’s, SAT’s, ACT’s
Weaknesses: GPA
Georgetown Quite likely, but most applicants’ GPA’s are higher
NYU Very likely, since they place huge emphasis on SAT’s
UCLA Very likely
UC Irvine Very likely
UC Berkeley This is a very tough school to get into, but you MIGHT stand a chance with your EC’s</p>
<p>Please help me with my college decisions!
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<p>I do think I can make it to some of the UCs not only because I’m a California resident but also because our school is a magnet school for Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD and UC Davis. We send about half of our graduating class to those schools.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I’m flattered that you think I can make it into Georgetown. What do you guys all think about my chances at Cornell, Duke, UChicago, Emory, University of Southern California (USC) and Brown?</p>
<p>I think your chances at these schools are quite slim, to be honest. Your essays have to be out of this world to impress their adcoms, and even then, the only school out of these which has been known to take chances on students like you is UChicago–and even though I don’t think the qualities it prizes in its students have changed dramatically in recent years, its current acceptance rate makes it a very high reach for you. I don’t think Duke, Brown & Cornell would even consider you. Emory and USC are high reaches too.</p>
<p>Again, work very hard on your essays.</p>
<p>Schools are going to conclude that this is a gifted student who…</p>
<p>1) doesn’t apply himself to the best of his ability</p>
<p>2) probably doesn’t do assignments that he’s not interested in (or does a half-a$$ed job on them)</p>
<p>that said…it doesn’t mean that this student won’t get accepted anywhere…he just won’t get accepted to schools that care about GPA and rank.</p>
<p>*On the other hand, I’m flattered that you think I can make it into Georgetown. What do you guys all think about my chances at Cornell, Duke, UChicago, Emory, University of Southern California (USC) and Brown? *</p>
<p>None of those…not even GU…and not at Cal, LA, and SD…those schools care a LOT about GPA… I don’t think you’ll be accepted to UCI either.</p>
<p>You cannot get around that the UCs have to weight GPA a LOT …they have to do this so that kids from “lesser schools” will still have access to the UCs (and those students won’t have high SAT/ACT scores.)</p>
<p>Any schools you guys suggest I can apply to with these kind of stats?</p>
<p>Do you think it would help if I can at least final at one of these science competitions?</p>
<p>Did I overlook what your major is going to be?</p>
<p>What is your budget? If your family will pay for wherever you go then there are many choices…depending on your major. However, if finances will be an issue, your choices will be more limited.</p>
<p>If you don’t know how much your parents will pay, then ask.</p>
<p>we are in the middle to high income (silicon valley) so they are willing to pay for any university. My major is business and psychology.</p>
<p>I understand my GPA is important (and my GPA is currently a rising trend by the way) so I’m really pushing to get that 4.0 next year. I’m just wondering what my options are if my GPA is not so great but everything else is pretty good. I think because I am not a GPA/number based student and my strengths are highly in the extracurricular and standardized testing category that I am more fit for private universities. Do you think University of the Pacific would be a reach for me as well?</p>
<p>Do you think my community college and summer college courses will help my weighted GPA to raise my chances?</p>
<p>*I understand my GPA is important (and my GPA is currently a rising trend by the way) so I’m really pushing to get that 4.0 next year. *</p>
<p>Unless you’re going to apply to colleges AFTER you graduate, your “4.0” for senior year won’t do much for this app season. You’ll be applying with mostly your past grades.</p>
<p>ECs do not compensate for low GPA unless the student has some kind of “serious reason” for the low GPA…like coming from an under-privileged situation or having had a serious illness. When a privileged student has a low GPA and good ECs, it just looks like the student prefers doing what he “likes to do”…not what he “has to do.”</p>
<p>I don’t know how colleges are going to perceive the better CC grades. It can be a plus…or it may be neutral. When you include those in your GPA, what is your GPA?</p>
<p>UOP might accept you. Is is need aware? A school that is need aware might give you a break. 
It accepts about 38% of applicants. As you can see below, most will have GPA’s higher than yours.</p>
<p>UOP</p>
<h1>29% had h.s. GPA of 3.75 and higher</h1>
<h1>25% had h.s. GPA between 3.5 and 3.74</h1>
<h1>21% had h.s. GPA between 3.25 and 3.49</h1>
<h1>15% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24</h1>
<p>BTW…are those your SAT and ACT scores? Or are those projections??</p>
<p>Since money isn’t an issue, and you want to major in business, you should apply to some OOS publics that have strong B-schools…like Indiana U, Arizona, Arizona State, etc.</p>
<p>Maybe look at Reed. They sometimes overlook grades for brilliance. But they don’t have business but they do have Econ.</p>