What Are My Chances? (Bad GPA Low SAT)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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@RMNiMiTz

I didn’t say it doesn’t exist. I said it is “more common among public schools” than private schools. Also, I said “there are many more reasons behind why they promote diversity” besides taxes.

@Studious99

His/her comments may have sounded a bit racist, but, unfortunately, the comments are partially true as far as racial gaps go for AP classes. Take a look at the following:

insidehighered . com/news/2014/02/11/study-shows-growth-ap-program-continuing-racial-gaps

This report is from three years ago, and this issue has been only exacerbating.

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I’ve talked to professors, my dad’s colleagues and they all say 1250 is not a bad score. I really don’t want to debate, but I feel you are just squashing me. I wasn’t interpreting it as “GPA and test scores mean nothing”. If you read what I said to the other person who responded to me, I just now started getting serious about my grades. And the amount of improvement I’ve done, the amount of classes I’ve “upgraded” I think shows a lot. Yeah I may not have excellent grades but the amount of turnaround I made I feel is great. And I’m not here to debate about my grades or whatever. if you feel they are bad, so be it. I’m here to discuss chances and colleges. Aside from Purdue, do I have a decent chance of getting into IIT and UIC? And my mom is a DePaul Alumni.

Also for my “hook” should I be dishonest about my income my parents make?

It’s so unfair. This is exactly what I’m talking about. My entire school is minorities who just get answers and cheat and get unfair advantages because of their skin color in the classroom.

Again, I feel like this is just a chance to discourage and squash me with the whole “Yeah it isn’t that hard to figure out what goes where”.

I know AutoCAD and Inventor. What kind of job would that be though? Just graphic design?

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@HardOREasy Ok thank you for all your info. I will most likely Major in CE and minor in like business. A friend recommended that I do that, because if I ever want to start a business I would have the business information under my belt. Unless you have another suggestion?

Also to EVERYONE. I’m looking at Naviance, (not sure if you heard of it). and I can already see people who have had lower GPA and lower test scores admitted into some of the schools I’m looking at.

There’s no way I’ll get in to purdue but whatever. Wasn’t my first choice.

I will probably create another thread on discussing my major, but I really do love engineering and I’ve been doing things LIKE building my PC’s for years, like programming pis, writing mini programs (like keyloggers lol) and other tech related white hat hacking stuff. Can’t include that on my app but you get the idea. I love computer science and I love the hands on aspect of working external machine and internal software. Thank you for the help. I most likely will apply to purdue just because why not, but I’m almost certain I won’t get in. I’ll still apply to the rolling admission next year. Is that ok?

Yes I agree with what he said about race, while it sounds racist it’s somewhat true. Not so much in my school but I agree I see it in other schools.

Aside from Purdue, how good are my “chances” are UIC/IIT/DePaul?

Any other schools in Chicago/Chicagoland area?

And I don’t talk to my counseler that much I’m scared she will give me a bad LOR

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@Studious99

If it isn’t white, then its usually Asian. You won’t find many classes dominated by blacks or hispanics, especially if they aren’t an overwhelming majority overall in the school

Also, I never implied nor stated that “only white kids take AP classes”. You may be extrapolating my comments (that there are far less blacks/Hispanics in AP classes) a bit too much.

@cooledwhip

I’m not the one who wrote the thread title. Unless I’m mistaken, you were the one who said loud and clear that you have a “low SAT”.

Don’t lie, that only gets you in worse trouble. Having no hook is preferable to academic dishonesty.

Hey @Studious99 , so I’m the racist when people are going around saying stuff like this eh? What a bunch of hypocrisy (I see cooledwhip even liked your comment accusing me of racism).

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“@DadTwoGirls What you said is perfectly conflicting with what @RMNiMiTz said.”

I think that there might be some confusion regarding which UWM you are referring to. On this I agree that I might have guessed at the wrong UWM. You might also want to clarify which MSOE in case there is any uncertainty there.

Otherwise, I didn’t see much disagreement between our two posts, nor do I see a safety school.

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OP, there is University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin, Madison, so usually people write UW-Madison instead of just UWM. Also, when you google UWM, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee shows up instead of the flagship school, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Those explain why @DadTwoGirls was confused initially. In fact, I was confused which one you were referring to; however, I figured it’d be UW-Madison since UW-Milwaukee has an obscure CS program unlike UW-Wisconsin, which has a decent one.

There is only one MSOE, and that is of Milwaukee. But don’t consider that school as those in-state schools on your list are worth more than MSOE.

“I’ve talked to professors, my dad’s colleagues and they all say 1250 is not a bad score. I really don’t want to debate, but I feel you are just squashing me.”

OP, when you come to collegeconfidential and ask questions, you should expect to be judged. If people view one’s poor stats as excellent, then, although it may make one feel good, it is an ineffective evaluation . In fact, harsh critiques tend to be more accurate and usually give one motivation. Certainly, there is a barrier between critiquing and slamming harshly. However, I couldn’t find any comment in @RMNiMiTz that was going overboard. If you do not want to expect to be critiqued harshly or see any hurtful messages, then I think this is not a place for you, as there are also some people who give troll responses that are intended to make OP feel awful in addition to those who critique mercilessly.

“Also for my “hook” should I be dishonest about my income my parents make?”

Flat answer: never. In fact, you cannot be “dishonest” about the income because, when applying for financial aid through FAFSA, your parents have to submit their tax information to the school. If you get caught lying about parents’ income, you will be rescinded of your admission to the college (if found before entering) or get expelled (if found while attending).

Naviance is something (nearly) every school has to keep track of their students’ admission history. It is most accurate to compare yourself with those from your school using Naviance.

“how good are my “chances” are UIC/IIT/DePaul?”

Sorry, but I cannot chance you on these as I don’t know about 'em. I only chance people who plan to major in CS as well as plan to go to schools I have good knowledge of.

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Ok I understand.

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My guess is that you will be admitted to at least 2 of the three that you are asking about. I can’t tell you which ones though because it might depend on whether the program you are applying for is limited by demand. As far as I know at Illinois Tech, we don’t have such a limitation for CS or even Computer Engineering. As for other tech schools in Illinois, there is Bradley and Northern Illinois University, both of which have engineering programs.