<p>Your grades are the most important factor in college admissions; junior year is the most important year. Your 800M score shows that you are a smart kid; it doesn't show that you are a good student.</p>
<p>Your first semester senior grades are extremely important, and they may squeeze you into some of the schools on your list. Have you discussed your list with your GC? Does he (or she) think that you have any safeties on your list?</p>
<p>my entire family studies in the humanities where people are, well, humane. So my first glance at your stats was: smart enough, look at 9th and l0th grade..nice..then,something must have happened during jr. year bad, but then she figured it out and straightened up again senior year. back to her old self. I look at the pattern (now that sounds more math-y, right?)
Also if you have a chance to say anything about it (on the ap) your simple explaantion that you had to learn to balance your EC's makes sense to me.
People who go off to college have to learn to juggle, also, and you might have learned something early that'll help you avoid mistakes as a freshman.
Now I'm a soft-hearted person, and you will one day build bridges that I'll feel safe to drive over. As I said, the humanities focus of my kids meant they were looked at differently than just by stats. But wouldn't a liberal arts college or u also CONSIDER and weigh your factors fairly? I hope so.
Follow everyone else's advice re" matches and reaches, but I'm just hear to tell you not to get downhearted right now. You've also got a lot of GOOD in your ap.</p>
<p>"But wouldn't a liberal arts college or u also CONSIDER and weigh your factors fairly? "</p>
<p>3tuitions (scary name - one is enough for me) -</p>
<p>yes - but that's where you have to look at the admissions rate of the school (if they have to deny most students, who do they deny). CMU and BC might happen, but they are far reaches. Case, BU and Rochester, with higher admit rates, are not as unlikely, but probably not in the match category. Having half the list as reaches is ok - as look as it includes matches and likelies. That's the part I'm not sure of. I think Student1 is a great kid - who should have valid options in the spring.</p>
<p>OP:</p>
<p>Some US colleges will consider a Canadian applicant with the US national pool, whereas others consider a Canadian citizen with the international applicant pool. On average, the international pool is highly competitive, particularly for science-engineering types. My suggestion is to consider additional safeties.</p>
<p>any last thoughts? thanks</p>
<p>I would go for a community college for 2 years and then transfer, if I were you.</p>
<p>"any last thoughts? thanks"</p>
<p>yes, apply to at least 2-3 third and fourth tier universities where your GPA is not so far below average... there's no real safety for you in the tier 2 range...</p>
<p>PE and Health are not calculated for GPA? I did not know this. What if it was a required class to graduate? I don't understand why they wouldn't calculate it towards the GPA if it was a class that was required. If I had known this I would have complained to my school board and taken other classes instead that DID count towards my GPA.</p>
<p>solsek - different colleges handle HS GPA calculations in different ways - but some do recalculate academic GPA in order to handle the variety of grading schemes that HS's use. In very general terms, however, core academics are pretty important.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I play the guitar too. Guitars destroy the GPA. Your SAT score, ECs and perhaps your essays will be your best chance. I suggest adding a thick pad of safeties that match your interests. Often times they are the best choices.</p>
<p>Guitar? It sounds like the guitar itself (as in you playing it - or spending time playing it) gave you a bad GPA. But from what I think you mean, several guitar classes lowered your GPA?</p>
<p>Anyway, after recalculating my GPA I am even worse off than I was before I learned this. Now I am down to a 3.38ish GPA UW :(</p>
<p>Seriously though I wish I could redo high school if I knew more about college admissions now. There are several classes in my school that are more difficult than AP classes and I earned B/C's in them because of the rigor of my courseload. I feel like I won't even get into any college now...sigh....</p>
<p>oh please. that's just a stereotype that guitar metalheads are extremely light headed. </p>
<p>classic rock ftw.</p>
<p>JEEEESUS bump me up</p>
<p>I think BC is a reach for you. Friend's son was rejected EA from Boston College with 3.7 GPA and SAT scores math 800 and English 680. He had one D junior year, otherwise, no grade lower than a B. Guidance counselor was told by BC admissions that Jr year grades are critical to admission decision and the "D" triggered the rejection.
You have a good shot at U of Rochester
Consider adding RPI- Great school that has admitted obviously bright kids with inconsistent transcripts.</p>
<pre><code> Safety/matches - consider adding some schools interested in admitting males - St. Michael's in Colchester, Vermont, Siena College in Loudonville, NY, St. Lawrence College in Canton, NY.
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<p>Student1:</p>
<p>UCSD: Super Reach (out of state, Engineering)</p>
<p>super reach?? damn...don't they care about senior grades?</p>
<p>No chance at Carnegie or Lehigh.</p>
<p>Carnegie no surprise, but no chance at all at lehigh?</p>
<p>you have as great a chance as everyone else in this forum just send out your apps and stop worrying =D gl!</p>
<p>1 more time :(</p>