Hello!
Okay so I would love to go to UofM (my dad went there) but I realize it’s a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge reach for me at this point. Really I just want to know if there’s any way I could make it at all, if from now on I nailed everything.
Right now I have a little over a 3.4 GPA
I’m a middle class white girl
I just finished sophomore year with a 3.6 GPA, taking Honors Chem, Honors English, and APUSH
My freshman year GPA was a 3.2 :///
and if they take away core classes even lower
Next year, Junior year, I’m scheduled for 3 AP classes, and if everything goes absolutely perfectly and I keep a perfect 4.0 all through junior year and into senior year (which will be very very hard for me) I should be able to get a 3.7 for my transcript
chances are I’ll probably end up closer to a 3.58-3.65 range
I took the PSAT 10 and scored a 1310, (740/760in reading/writing and 570/760 math) which I feel like I can improve on a lot, I got a 37/38 reading 37/38 writing and a 28.5/38 math. Im planning on taking a prep course over the summer and hitting the books to try and get that math grade up, and maybe try and qualify for NMS??
I guess my main question is, is there any way my SAT/ACT can make up for my lame GPA? Is there anything I could get that would help make me competitive? a 1500? 1550? a perfect score? nothing will help?
There’s also the stamps program for artists, if anyone knows anything about that-- how hard it is to get into. Although that might be a stretch to, I’ll need to do some serious portfolio building. Would they take me with a 3.5/3.6 gpa if my portfolio was great??
My ECs arent’t terrible, but nothing that would give me an edge
-Forensics
-MUN club board
-Founder/president of tutoring club
-Varsity Figure Skating Team, + individual competitor/exhibitionist, soloist in rinks annual show
-Part time job at Dry Cleaners (Would being a manager look good? How good?)
-summer in the city (volunteer program, pretty chill)
-Track team
-Book Club
-Animal Welfare Club
I feel like the main problem is that I haven’t really accomplished anything in any of my ECs, besides varsity team/going to states (we didnt do well). I’m going to try and actually place in Forensics and get a gavel in MUN-- can colleges verify those things?
Thank You!