Strength of Candidacy for University of South Carolina

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello all,
This is my first post so I apologize if this isn’t in the right place for this question. I was wondering about how strong my candidacy is for undergraduate admission into the University of South Carolina. I am a white male and currently a junior at a very competitive, nationally ranked public high school in upstate New York. I don t know how the school the school tracks student interest but I recently took a scheduled tour of the campus. Again, I apologize if I am doing anything wrong or if this forum is not a place for this type of question. Here are my stats:

Rank: sitting at just above 50%, trying to break into that top 50% in this last quarter of my junior year
GPA (unweighted): 3.0
GPA (weighted): 3.3 (shows upward trend since freshman year)
ACT: 28 highest (29 superscore)
SAT: 1300/1600 (670 reading/writing, 630 math)
AP Classes completed: World History (3 on exam), US History (exam soon), and Statistics (exam soon)
AP Classes to be completed senior year: Physics I, Calculus AB, and Macro
Notable Electives: Accounting, College Accounting, and PLTW
Honors: Pre Calculus, Biology, and Chemistry
Sports:
Volleyball
1 year JV
2 years Vars.
Most Valuable Player Award
Tennis
1 year JV
2 years Vars.
Football
1 year Freshman
Baseball
4 years of club baseball
Basketball
4 years of recreational basketball
Tae Kwon Do
3 years of competitive Tae Kwon Do
first degree black belt

Clubs:
Distributive Education Club of America
member for 3 years
running for Vice President senior year
Students Against Destructive Decisions
member for 4 years
Amnesty International
member for 2 years
Food Coordinator for 1 year
Ultimate Frisbee Club
member for 4 years

Thank you everyone, any feedback is appreciated.

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If you look on University of South Carolina’ s Common Data Set , it will give you info on the most recent years acceptance stats. Compare yours to theirs . Also , you may want to go to the " Colleges and Universitys" section of CC. You’ll find some valuable info there.

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Yes, I know. I have analyzed those statistics like crazy and I still find it difficult to put everything into perspective. I am below some of their averages, greater than others, and even fall right in the middle of some. I was posting to possibly receive some feedback from people who have applied in the past with similar statistics.

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I would say you have a really good shot. I applied there about a month ago:
ACT: 27
SAT: 1290 (new)
UW GPA: 3.87
W GPA: 4.47
Rank: 20/405
No APs, about 8 honors classes
Two years cheerleading, one year lacrosse, one year of work

I haven’t received a letter accepting me yet, but I’ve received letters from them about my eligibility for scholarships. They said if I went there they would be prepared to offer me about $13,000 my first year and $9,000 after that (this is off the top of my head). I am instate so I qualify for the Palmetto Fellowship scholarship. Your SAT score makes you very competitive for the school and would definitely make up for your GPA, plus you have a ton of extracurriculars and you are coming from out of state. Are you planning on studying international business? If yes, you might want to consider bumping up your standardized test scores a little bit more because that program is really competitive.

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According to Collegesimply.com only 9% of their last years entering class had a W GPA of <3.5

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I got in tho