<p>I am a current high school senior in California at a top notch public charter school. I started at my current school junior year and before that I went to a well known private prep school. Due to the fact that my current school does not calculate my freshman and sophomore grades the same way as my old school my GPA is lower than it should be.</p>
<p>My weighted GPA is a 3.52 (but my freshman year it was a 3.49 and sophomore it was a 3.5)
I am a 3rd year rower
I have ADHD
I am shooting for a 2200+ on my SAT </p>
<p>All I want to do is get into Wisco, what are my chances? What should I do to increase them?
Also, does Wisconsin recalculate GPAs? Can I request that?</p>
<p>From the tour presentation that I attended in April, it sounds as though each region’s Admission’s Officer truly knows the different schools w/in the area. They do not look at weighted GPAs. If it’s a “well known” private prep you attended, I suspect they’ll know it and take the drop into consideration. If you go to their admissions site you’ll see their ranges for GPA & ACT/SAT of accepted students. It’s worth noting approx. 75% of their applicants take the ACT in lieu of the SAT. Not sure what to gather from that. Being OOS does not help your (or my) cause to get in due to a cap on OOS admissions (the only Big 10 school that has one). If your unweighted is below a 3.5, I might suggest not applying EA, and instead really work hard your first quarter Senior year and submit that quarter’s grades. Have you not taken the SAT yet? I see your “shooting” for a 2200. If you haven’t, I would certainly suggest really prepping yourself for that exam. Overall, w/o knowing your unweighted GPA AND not knowing your true SAT, it’s hard to say, but w/ what you’ve printed I’d say a high match.</p>
<p>I think you’ll have a good chance of getting in to UW-Madison. But you should get more EC.</p>
<p>What is your current score? Or you have not taken any SAT/ACT yet? If you have not taken any yet, you are really behind other students. What is your intended major or field of study?</p>