The "I Got in without a 3.7+ GPA" club

<p>Oh wow, my weighted and unweighted GPA are not far off at all. Both I think fall within 3.65-3.8</p>

<p>wow westahamunited32, how many APā€™s did u take ?
anyway a cousin of mine got accepeted into Yale with a 3.1 GPA hes an amazing pianist, he is no. 1 in my country so ya they actually sent him a letter thanking him.</p>

<p>Lol i take ALL APs my only non APs are soccer classes, and art my freshman year.</p>

<p>With a 2.76 (level 3) i got into quinnipiac, fairfield, bryant, and loyola maryland! amazing.</p>

<p>WOW Jadsil Thatā€™s impressive!! My son really wants to go to Colorado College, would you mind posting your statā€™s, i.e. # of Apā€™s and ECā€™s. It might give him hope.</p>

<p>Bumping this thread to hear more success stories.</p>

<p>Bump. I need some encouragement before the letters start coming in in the next few weeks.</p>

<p>Bowdoin, not top 20 percent and fairly low GPA. Good ACT and great essays though. Also Fordham.</p>

<p>Edit: \lvl</p>

<p>Anyone think I can get in with a level 4 High school GPA (no SAT scores yet. still taking it May 1.) 2.13 1st sem college GPA. Great Recs and ECs though. International transfer. 100 TOEFL iBT. to these schools:</p>

<p>Syracuse, American, Seattle U, Saint Jospehā€™s U, Boston U?</p>

<p>Lots of level 5s from my school get into the 10s-20s schools in USNWR, including Cornell, WashU, Tufts, Emory, Vanderbilt, and Michigan. Level 4s generally go to state flagships like UW-Madison and SUNY Binghamton, level 2s and 3s to non-top in-state options or schools like URI or ASU, and level 1s go to some really random schools or community college.</p>

<p>Iā€™m level 5 (3.62) got into:</p>

<p>University of Alabama
Dickinson College (36k FA) - Going :smiley:
Birminham Southern College
Fordham University</p>

<p>Not that great though LOL.</p>

<p>Iā€™m a Level 4/5, and Iā€™m in at Oberlin, Swarthmore, Northeastern, and Drexel. Waiting on other schools.</p>

<p>If your GPA isnā€™t that high, make sure to kick ass in everything else! And if itā€™s in just one or two subjects, it can be overcome with other things.</p>

<p>level 4 and reed??..xcheezzzā€¦how was ur other partsā€¦like ECAs n SATsā€¦</p>

<p>Level 5: 3.51 UW GPA
Bowdoin College</p>

<p>Level 4 (3.1 UW, 3.5W)
In at Loyola Maryland, Pitt, Ithaca, Hofstra, Drexel, UVM, Fairfield, UConn
Rejected: American, Penn State (offered Altoona), Northeastern
Waiting: Syracuse, Delaware</p>

<p>Bump. This is very encouraging to many people!</p>

<p>Itā€™s all very encouraging, but I wish people were posting their SATs and if they have hooks, like art/sports/URM/gender (schools need boys). That must be a factor! </p>

<p>My junior D has a weighted GPA well above this level, and an unweighted GPA just above level 5, but sheā€™s a white girl whose PSAT scores were so-so (although an upward trend, and sheā€™s studying for the SAT and hopefully will do fine, but probably not great). </p>

<p>Iā€™d love to hear about great schools that kids are getting into with SAT scores of under 1900ā€¦</p>

<p>Level 4 UW, ACT: 27; URM, ED Connecticut College (doesnā€™t practice AA on students, although they do make diveristy important), EA Knox, deferred to RD at U of Chicago, Rolling at U of Hartford. </p>

<p>Didnā€™t hear back in time from: Goucher, Scripps, American, U New Haven, or ASU (Safety)</p>

<p>Uh, I had one very unusual EC, and a few other more general things; and good essays (Creative writing is a hobby of mine, and I did NaNoWriMo twice, so Iā€™d wager I have extra ā€˜practiceā€™.)</p>

<p>Iā€™m going to say I wouldā€™ve gotten into Scripps & Goucher, and mightā€™ve managed to get into U of Chicago, had I stayed in the running (I shouldā€™ve interviewed. Big mistake not to; Iā€™m pretty okay in an interview.)</p>

<p>HA. Level 3
2.9 GPA</p>

<p>Got into:</p>

<p>University of Northern Colorado,
South Dakota State University,
Eastern Washington University,
University of Idaho,
University of Wyoming,
West Virginia University (Going)</p>

<p>Its nice to see some normal students on here for a change.
My school choices are a lot different than most peoples. I want a good education and a place where I can party, meet girls, and drink lol. No Ivy League for me, thank you very much.</p>

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<p>Pretty sure you can do that in the Ivy League thoughā€¦</p>

<p>Or did you never hear about the infamous Yale Naked Parties?</p>