<p>HS GPA 3.4uw 4.3w 13 college courses 6 AP, 7 IB
College GPA (UF)3.71 16 credits, got really depressed and couldn't study for finals 2 A's, B+, B</p>
<p>taking 19 credits 2nd semester
SAT 1330 left the last two sections blank, don't ask
Russian major which I hear is a really good plus!
I do 2-3 hours community service a week, russian club, philosophy club</p>
<p>Applying to mich, wisc, unc, maybe uva</p>
<p>Thanks for your opinions</p>
<p>3.4 gpa is very respectable. Given grading variations, you could be a genius and we would never know it, based on that figure alone. College entrance testing has much less mindless, memorization testing than all testing we have in elementary and secondary education. In a way, the SAT is a way of ambush to get a glimpse of what the world has never examined in us before, but it is built by humans that strongly prefer memorized outcomes. In other words, if you have to ask "how much" is enough for the SAT or for humanity, you can' afford it. 3.4 is good enough for anything you can get. The Russian thing should be stated once, only once and very well, and I mean only once, or one time in other words, or did I say once, because you could be a merely an idiot who happened to have intelligent parents of Russian origin. Let's get them scholarships if so. Thumbs up on community service, on 3.4s, on Russian, and on that great SAT score.</p>
<p>Don Blankenship</p>
<p>Thanks. anyone else?</p>
<p>Mich: good chance
Wisc: In
UVA: dubious
UNC: no way</p>
<p>As a transfer I have no chance?</p>
<p>U of M is on par with Harvard, believe it or not. It is exclusive within the state of MI. A phone call to any admissions office can get you their rate of acceptance for transfer and possibly their transfer policy.</p>
<p>Miami of Ohio, for example is extremely exclusive, while as a state charter school, it is bound by the laws of Ohio to accept ALL students with a high school diploma from within the state. It gets around the law by unusually early application deadlines and stiff prep requirements that force weaker (and poorer) students to attend college elsewhere at first, then attempt a transfer, which won't happen. Only 2% of its students at Miami of Ohio are transfers. That means unless you are the son of the Sultan of UmPaPaMowMow, you won't get in as a transfer.</p>
<p>If any of the schools you want have low transfer rates, it is not worth applying unless your folks have a very deep and open checking accounts, and sometimes not then.</p>
<p>U of Wisc is same as Ohio State, Penn State, and Purdue--all good schools, but they specialize in what they are good at. Ohio State cranks out teachers and civil engineers to keep state payrolls down. Purdue and U of M turn out better engineers as an average (and I went to OSU!). Why UVA or UNC instead of Appalacian State? They have a great football team, too!</p>
<p>Call admissions offices and ask for their transfer rates.</p>
<p>db</p>
<p>.... interesting post. I hope people get your strange humor with inside jokes about Ohio culture.</p>
<p>3.71 from UF should be good enough for Wisc and Mich</p>
<p>um, 4rtnite, i wouldn't really call Miami extremely exclusive with a 77% acceptance rate. and, the deadlines are not unusually early...
the early decision deadline is nov. 1 (like a lot of other schools)
the regular decision 1 deadline is december 1
and the regular decision 2 deadline is january 31 (later than a lot of schools).</p>
<p>And i live in Ohio, and my friend was recently rejected from Miami, so they are not bound by state law to accept all students within the state with a high school diploma.</p>
<p>If you read the post, you would see this is just a flame.</p>