I know GPA wasn’t as strong as ACT but didn’t think acceptance was in question. If you are wait-listed can I assume even if eventually accepted a Pere Marquette award is out of the question?
What was your GPA ?
84% which is converted to a 2.9 by our school.
hmm an 84%=2.9???! What school do u go to? lol b-(
This is dad not student. One of top schools (private) in our state. But they use the Princeton scale for conversion.
When I see a mismatched ACT and GPA like that I see a bright but lazy student. A school may not want to take a chance admitting him.
Tough to argue with that analysis.
But how about the student who struggled at our school, transferred to the local public school (where he could take an easier curriculum and a 84% translates to a GPA north of 3.0).
While I do not know his actual gpa I do know he was admitted with an ACT in the mid to upper twenties.
A little off topic I know but just feel there are way too many flaws in weighting the gpa so heavily.
Sounds a bit like my son who has ADHD.
Pretty sure he just didn’t take things seriously his first year or two. Effort just wasn’t there.
And like I said if he was at the school down the street his 84% would have been a 3.2 or something.
I am in your exact same position. Waitlisted with a 31 ACT and 2.7 GPA. My GPA is mostly due to an extended illness soph year causing me to be out of school for 4 months. Admissions offices are probably just going wtf looking at my application,
Mr1234- To answer your original question, my impression is that Marquette issues the bulk of its Pere Marquette awards as an enticement for top candidates – my son and several of his classmates received their RD acceptances in early January and Pere Marquette offers in mid January. There seems to be a system involved – if your GPA is X, your ACT is Y, and you have 3 strong extra-curriculars, you get Z dollars. I would imagine the available pot is divided up early. However, once those students commit to different schools, that money probably becomes available again. However, it’s tough to say whether it would be recycled as merit scholarships or instead used as need-based awards. I do remember reading somewhere on this site that wait-listed students should keep the school informed of how their year has been going (sort of an update on academic progress and extra-curriculars that would boost their desirability). So don’t give up, but don’t expect to hear before May 1.