<p>My son is a 2010 grad and we just toured UConn this week. </p>
<p>We are in-state, and the guidance counselor told us that we can't bother to look on Naviance for accepted kids' stats since everything has changed this year and the bar was set much higher. She said that no one with below a 3.4 was even considered, for instance.</p>
<p>So, if you were accepted this year, would you be kind enough to share your stats? Thank you!!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I (by section): 630CR 720M 610W (1350 /1960 Total)
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* ECs listed on app: 4 Years Varsity Cross Country (2 years captain), 4 years Indoor Track (2 years captain), 4 years Outdoor Track, (2 Years Captain), President of Red Cross Youth Corps, Student Council, Math Team, LEAD Tutor, Building with Books, Interact, Marching Band, Concert Band.
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Fairfield, CT
<p>Received full tuition, and then grants from financial aid that basically gives me a full ride. I think I’m attending UCONN because of this very reason. I had really wanted to attend either Lehigh or Bucknell, but neither schools gave me as much as UCONN did. I believe I received the Leadership Award in lieu of the Day of Pride award (Full tuition vs. full ride, respectively). Best bet in getting in is to submit the application as early as possible. I submitted mine in early November due to the scholarship application. I think UCONN does their admission on a rolling basis, as I applied for regular decision and received my decision in December (but perhaps it was the scholarship, once again). So the earlier you apply, the better your chances are is what I’m assuming. Best of luck to your son, and feel free to ask me any questions since I went through this process, and live in CT as well.</p>
<p>I was also accepted with a 90 average and a 1240/1800 SAT
it looks like UCONN has been much more selective this year
submitting very early (October) is what I believe got me accepted because it is a rolling admission school</p>
<p>Dark - Wow…pretty amazing stats, but what I’m really wondering about is how you landed a job as a pharmacy technician during high school?</p>
<p>My son also works about 15 hours/week (except during football season, when he only has Sundays free) but at a grocery store!!</p>
<p>Your GPA is much higher than his (he is at a 3.4 weighted) but his SATs are good (760M/670CR/630W or 1430/2060 total). </p>
<p>Kolodny…what would a 90 average translate to in the 4.0 system? </p>
<p>I will make sure he applies early…but I have been worried that his GPA isn’t up to par…maybe the SATs will make up for it?</p>
<p>Accepted (Engineering)
Stats:
SAT Reading: 670
SAT Math: 770
SAT Writing: 750
SAT Total: 2190
SAT II: 790 Math II, 790 Chem
AP/IB taken/scores: AB Calc (5), Chem (5), US Gov, BC Calc, B Physics, Spanish Language
GPA unweighted: 3.92/4.00
Rank or % estimate (if applicable): My counselor says at least top 10%, which is a rough estimate. My school ranks, but I don’t get one because I transferred in.
Academic Awards: National Merit Commended, Spanish IV excellence award
Subjective:
Essays: meh, i thought they were ok-good (my english teacher liked it)
Rec: I submitted one for the Nutmeg scholarship, but I don’t know if it was also used in admissions.<br>
Hook (if any): Anti-Hook= Asian male applying to engineering, also no CAPT scores.</p>
<p>Location:
State or Country: CT
School Type: Public
Legacy Yes/No: No
Recruited Yes/No: No
Important ECs: Math/Language activity (competed at national level for 9 and 10, 9th in the country in tenth) (had to stop because I moved), Scouts (almost Eagle), Orchestra (Concertmaster), Spanish NHS, Rotary/Interact Club, Freshmen/JV Lacrosse</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!</p>
<p>GPA: 3.59
ACT: composite: 30, math:31, science:32, Reading:30, English: 26
SAT IIs: math IIc: 650, Literature: 680, Chemistry: 600</p>
<p>Activities: President of one club, secretary of another, member of a couple others, band all 4 years, no sports,
Academic Honors: French National Honor Society 10,11,12, </p>
<p>Community Service: Four year ago I created and now maintain a pop tab collection program that benefits the Houston Ronald McDonald House (RMH) where I stayed during cancer treatments. Program started at my school and has grown to 9 schools in 5 districts in 2 states. Active in American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life and Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure. I am a 2-time cancer survivor myself, which is why my GPA in grades 9-10 was not the best. Junior and senior year reflect what I am capable of, now that I’m free of disease! :)</p>
<p>Ethnicity: bi-ethnic (Swiss and American; Dad is an immigrant) and we’re VERY bi-cultural in our family!
Gender: female</p>
<p>Visited UConn in June and liked it a lot! Was SO glad to be admitted!</p>
<p>Dear ReadyToRoll,
My school grades on a percentile too, so I took my transcripts and calculated my GPA using the typical Texas public school grading scale to figure out my GPA on a 4.0 scale. Use your transcripts and the typical public school grading scale where you live to figure it out. They won’t all be the same, depending on where you live. My aunt teaches in Illinois and their district stops an A at 93, so a 92 would be a B there.</p>
<p>Hope this helps you!! :)</p>
<p>Woops! Haha, I didn’t even realize that it said just Pharmacy Technician. I’m a photolab technician at CVS Pharmacy is what I meant to write. Unfortunately, you have to be 18 to work in the pharmacy, which I am actually transferring to do now. </p>
<p>From reading your son’s stats, I believe that UCONN should be a safety for him. But it is a tossup, as his SAT’s are well beyond UCONN’s average and excellent enough to apply to even better schools, but his GPA seems to be very much sub par, and will most likely drag his decision down a bit. Are there any discrepancies that can attribute to his low GPA? It seems that your son is an extremely bright kid, perhaps just a busy one. I honestly wouldn’t worry about it though. Even with his low GPA, I’m sure admissions will be impressed by his very high SAT scores. Consider UCONN a safety if he is applying early action for sure. If he plans on applying to higher schools, GPA may play a much larger role.</p>
<p>What city/town are you from in CT? Just curious to see what places people are applying from. And what did you think of UCONN? Did you like the campus/surrounding town? And is UCONN his top choice?</p>
<p>Make sure you apply early. Uconn was my safety yet I was waitlisted today. My sat scores are well over uconn’s 75% range (680,690,700). My grades are also solid too with a 3.75 uw with all honors, aps, and classes at Wesleyan.</p>
<p>Dark…thanks for the input. It’s nice that you look at his stats and see “busy”…I hope that’s what the take away is, but I’m afraid that what they may see more is “underachiever” since he is so clearly capable of doing better in school. (I, of course, know this based on his history…but I guess you can also tell this based on his SATs.) He does play varsity football, holds down a job, and is also in student government (elected position, has won the election every year) so he is busy…but he also doesn’t work very hard and doesn’t do things like meet with the teacher to have him/her look over a paper and give him suggestions, or see a teacher during office hours…he thinks that is “brown nosing” and refuses to do it. </p>
<p>UConn was our first college visit and he liked the campus. He was not impressed when we were on the outskirts of campus (“Wait, are those cows? Where the heck are we? There is nothing here!”) but liked it once we got there. We had a great tour guide (double major German and Engineering…and a frat boy) which helped too. It was also pouring the day we visited so I’m glad he liked it in the rain because he is bound to like it even more in the sun.</p>
<p>I can’t say he has a first choice yet because he hasn’t seen any other schools, except for campuses he saw while in the Johns Hopkins program (which he did from 5th to 9th grades). I just wish that some of these schools interviewed, because he is very personable and it would only help him I think!</p>
<p>I should probably mention that I got into the honors program, and I got a half tuition scholarship (rejected for Nutmeg). I also will not be attending UConn.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (honors)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT I (by section): 670CR 800M 700W (1470 /2170 Total)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 760Math, 730bio, 650 Lit</li>
<li>ACT:nah</li>
<li>APs: Stats (5), Biology (5), Calc AB, English</li>
<li>IBs: None</li>
<li>GPA: 4.56W</li>
<li>Rank: 5/150</li>
<li>Other stats: None available</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>ECs listed on app: Student Advisory Council (chairperson), Math team (captain), Mentoring, Jazz Band, Concert Band, Newspaper (Production Editor), Regional Student Advisory Council, Math Tutor, English Honor Society, National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, Science Honor Society, Summer Soccer Coach, Religious Camp Staff, School Commitee Student Representative</li>
<li>Awards: Second Highest scoring sophomore tri-state math league, Highest Scoring Junior tri-state math league, Highest scoring senior tri-state math leagu, Clarkson Leadership Award</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Grocery, Checkout Clerk for 1.5 years, Beer/Wine Dept. for 1.5</li>
<li>Essays (subject and responses): Fetal pig dissection experience, it was unique</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Awesome</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: “”</li>
<li>Applied on: Early Decision</li>
<li>Hook (if any): First Generation</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: MA</li>
<li>School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Caucasion</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
</ul>
<p>I’m a white male from Mass</p>
<p>3.57 GPA Unweighted
All honors classes, except for AP Composition (only a 2 on the exam, I know it’s garbage but I had a terrible day that day) and currently in AP Lit and AP Calculus right now</p>
<p>Class Rank 12/148</p>
<p>1330/1930
-720 Math
-610 Reading
-600 Writing</p>
<p>Had a ton of ECs though: 4 years varsity soccer, 4 years varsity tennis, 3 years math team, president and founder of my school’s recycling club, National Honor Society, 4 years in the drama program, 2 years in an afterschool choir group, 2 years in concert choir, 2 years peer leaders, 1 year student government, 4 years in a school pageant (name of it was Mr Abington Highschool. Was run by the NHS and was a spoof on Ms America) in which I won my senior year, science fair, 2 years at an academic summer program, speaker at a school wide conference on abuse in relationships, attended a conference on staying substance-free for being a leader in my school</p>
<p>Awards: Highest scorer on the American Math Challenge in my school my freshman year, runner up in school science fair freshman year</p>
<p>Worked 9 months at Barnes and Nobles, worked 3 months doing work in the highschool.</p>
<p>Used the same essay from my Villanova supplement, question asked something along the lines of what life lesson did you learn that impacted you and that you would bring to that school. I talked about how the movie Pay It Forward was essentially based on the golden rule and how the movie affected me; fairly strong essay although somewhat cliche.</p>
<p>Teacher Recs were somewhere between average and strong
Guidance Rec was strong</p>
<p>I applied Early Action – I was accepted and given the leadership award for half tuition.</p>
<p>From My school of what I know:
Instate:</p>
<p>2.8/1170 Branch
2.8/1120 Branch
3.0/1020 Accepted
3.7/1150 Waitlisted
3.7/1020 Accepted
3.8/1230 Accepted
3.9/1210 Accepted
4.12/1180 Waitlisted
3.6/1040 Accepted</p>
<p>There were many more acceptances, but those are the ones I know of.</p>
<p>Good info sccrdave05. I have a feeling acceptance criteria depends on how competitive the school you apply for is as well.</p>
<p>sccrdave…great info. </p>
<p>Do you think it’s a detriment to apply undecided?</p>
<p>I know the question wasn’t directed at me, but I would say it’s not completely neccessary to go undeclared. I know a few kids from my school (no idea on their stats sorry) that applied, but did not get accepted to their declared major and instead got put into the Aces Program.</p>
<p>IMO if you are applying to some of the competitive schools it would be in best interest to not declare your major and then after a semester or year try to transfer into that school of whatever.</p>
<p>Son accepted to Honors program
CR 800
W 750
M 640</p>
<p>EC Capt. Varsity sport, nationally ranked in Speech, Writing awards, Part time job</p>
<p>Not attending (2nd choice - 1st choice came thru with more $$$$)
out of state</p>
<p>Okay…were there any kids that were accepted that had a GPA of 3.3 or below? It doesn’t help me so much to hear about the kids that were accepted that also could get into Harvard…lol…</p>
<p>Seriously, though, of UConn is your safety then your stats probably aren’t going to help us figure out if our son has a shot.</p>