<p>I'm a Junior at a pretty competitive public high school with a 4.8ish GPA. I've taken 2 AP's (US and Euro) and I've been in all honors science courses so far. I took honors geometry as well, but dropped to level II soph year for trig. </p>
<p>How do I rank up against other prospective students applying to Columbia, NYU, and Cornell?</p>
<p>In terms of GPA? That's rather high, but they also take a look at the difficulty of your courses. I can honestly say that my weighted GPA is around 4.53-4.73, but I've definitely taken the most rigorous curriculum offered on top of college classes outside of it. So in terms of GPA, you'll have to also compare what classes you've taken. From what I understand, most of the other students applying to such colleges will mainly have AP courses as their backbone (as that's what I'm doing).</p>
<p>Granted, what you're asking is unrealistic. In order to "rank you up", there are several other important factors to consider: SAT Is, SAT IIs, ACT, Class rank, Extracurricular activites, possibly an interview, etc. </p>
<p>Personally, while your GPA is high, I have the feeling that those colleges will look at the difficulty of those classes negatively; however, like I mentioned before, you only left us with a GPA and a description of your classes. Great SAT Is/IIs and ECs can compensate for it, perhaps. Columbia doesn't except many in the first place, so I wouldn't bet on that.</p>
<p>I have a pretty good resume otherwise, the reason I was asking is because I look around my school and other kids have much higher GPA's. I end up feeling belittled. Like an extreme case is with the would-be valedictorian (class rank has been abolished at my school), his GPA is like over 5.9. And then a lot of other people have low 5.0's. </p>
<p>I guess it's all relative to the school though.</p>
<p>I'm going to make a new thread with all my stats</p>
<p>That would be better.</p>