<p>I have an unweighte GPA of 85 (out of 100 in my school), and an SAT score of 1560 / 1600. I took the ACT in october, and I'll be very surprised if I don't get a 36 or 35. I will have taken 7 APs by the end of senior year, and all the rest of my 'academic' classes were honors. I have few extracurriculars. My main essay is excellent (or so I've been told) and the other ones will probably also be exceptionally good. I want to major in biochemistry.</p>
<p>Anyone know of a college that might accept me? Everywhere I want to go is a 'reach' due to my GPA.</p>
<p>My brother is the same thing, he scored 2340 with a 86 GPA, he was always smart he just never tried. He is a senior now, so I’d be interested to hear this as well. And he didn’t go to a competitive school either.</p>
<p>Many, many colleges will be happy to have you. But for the most selective (Ivies, MIT, CalTech, Stanford, etc and top LACs) your otherwise very good GPA is a setback. How rigorous is your high school? Do you know your class rank? Those things could make a difference. What kind of schools are you looking at?</p>
<p>Depending on what you want in a college, I would go for a top state flagship with a strong science program. They should be slightly easier to get in to due to their larger student bodies, but would still have great resources for an academically minded student. I’m thinking like Minnesota, Washington, Michigan St. (Mich too but that may be a bit of a reach not sure), Penn State, Wisconsin, and the like. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>First, do you need financial aid, and if so what is your home state?</p>
<p>Second, the rank question is key. Texas and Montana are the only Flagship Us that state scores are more important than GPA, and there rigor and class rank are more important than scores.</p>
<p>Going to answer all questions at once, in no particular order.</p>
<p>My high school is a well regarded public school in Long Island, New York (+99% college attendence rate, many students go to cornell). I’d venture to say it’s more rigorous than the majority of other schools. My schedule personally is just about the most rigorous it could be; I started taking high school research honors math classes in 7th grade.The school doesn’t do class ranks, so I don’t have anything for that. The flagship state school here is SUNY binghamton, which I don’t feel is near my level. I will need a signifcant amount of financial aid.</p>
<p>Do you know your weighted GPA? It would probably be much higher than 85. With good recommendations, you could certainly be accepted to lots of great schools. Could you describe what you’re looking for in a college?</p>
<p>Lots of other state school will probably be interested in you too. Try checking out honors programs at schools like Pitt and ASU if you want to go out of state, as you would likely be a definite-admit at those types of schools, which would also offer lots of merit $$$.</p>
<p>Are you a National Merit Semifinalist by any chance?</p>
<p>The SAT was easier than pretty much any test I’ve ever taken in any class in high school. I almost felt insulted at how easy it was.
My GPA is a result of being disliked by most of my teachers, taking all the most difficult classes, not padding my schedule with electives, and most of all putting little effort into school in general. It doesn’t reflect my scholastic ability, but rather my reluctance to memorize vast amounts of worthless information that everyone forgot the day after the AP. That’s why most of the people in NHS here have little to talk about apart from school and their college-friendly extracurriculars. I regret nothing.</p>
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<p>I converted all my number grades into GPA, with honors classes being out of 5 and APs being out of 6, and it’s 4.29.</p>
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<p>It gave me an exhaustive list that didn’t help me.</p>
<p>You will be a good candidate for transfer to a top school if you do well for 2 years at a state school. Bing might not be the best you can do in the long term, but it may well be your best option now. If you were full pay you’d have many more options, but being from LI which is overrepresented at good colleges in general and the low GPA will make private options tough.</p>
<p>Alright, you’re being pretentious. Nobody’s GPA really reflects their intellectual abilities-- it’s about about being able to be successful while working within a system, and colleges are ranked by how well their systems work.</p>
<p>Anyways, I know nothing about biochem programs, but you’ll find a school.</p>
<p>Igolos, maybe you’re not using Naviance properly, if all you got out of it was a list. It has graphs that plots out the acceptance status by the SATs and GPAs of students at your school.</p>
<p>certain schools love high test scores, in lieu of gpa. USC is one. USC also gives an near-automatic discount to NMSF’s…</p>
<p>Search for those colleges that provide $$ to NMSF’s, and you’ll have a good list of reach schools that are willing to pay for high test scores. </p>
<p>High SAT, low GPA applicants need to be prepared for waitlists. My son had this problem and was initially waitlisted at the school he now attends. Keep your senior grades up. Schools will want to see strong semester grades and 3rd quarter grades. Your high scores can keep you from being weeded out, but they need a reason to include you. Accomplishments in your senior year can give them that reason.</p>