<p>I will be graduating from an extremely competitive private Catholic high school (in Cincinnati), who sends many kids off to Ivy League schools and other top universities, at the end of this school year. Currently, I have an SAT (CR + Math) of 1520 and an ACT of 34. I have decent ECs including many service projects, internships (at a powerful law firm in the Willis Tower), baseball (on a state championship team), and leadership positions with the American Cancer Society. I also have glowing letters of recommendation from my AP Physics teacher and my AP Spanish teacher. Also, if necessary I could get a letter of recommendation from the speaker of the house (family friend and I worked as a page). Additionally, I am considered fluent in Spanish, but I provide no diversity. However, my gpa is only a 3.1 (unweighted). I'm unsure what it is weighted (my counselor said between the 4.1 and 4.6 range), but I have taken 12 honors classes and 4 AP (as of junior year) this year I have two more AP's, a dual enrollment (dual enrolled in Ohio State's college of engineering) and a handful of honors. If I apply early decision what are the odds that I would get accepted? If you think there is no way, any suggestions on how to get closer to an acceptance would be wonderful.</p>
<p>The key question is what does your 3.1 look like comparitively to your classmates & more specifically to other students from your school who have been admitted to comparable colleges.</p>
<p>It’s about in the middle for my school. My freshman year grades were low because my dad left during the summer before that year and then my mom was out of the picture for a while that year as well. So I made sure to write about that in my essay in order to give an explanation for why my gpa doesn’t match up with my letters and test scores.</p>
<p>haha weird you and I have almost identical ecs I worked as a page and do stuff for ACS too
I think you have a viable chance… to better assess you I’d need to know are you applying ED? which of the 7 schools? and your major?</p>
<p>I’m planning on doing ED and I’m applying to the CoE to major in computer science.</p>
<p>Subbed, I also have your GPA numbers(upper middle of hte pack), rigorous schedule, good ECs, and a similar SAT score. I know ED at CoE is largely self selecting…I have a feeling your numbers will matter heavily at CoE, including GPA, which may prove problematic.</p>
<p>I wish you luck on ED!</p>
<p>Er you probably shouldn’t have written about that in your essay. I think there’s a spot where you can explain anything abnormal in your application.</p>
<p>So unless it was actually really relevant topic to begin with, it would be a bad essay topic.</p>
<p>At least that’s how I understand it.</p>
<p>if your essay is really meaningful and doesn’t just sound like you’re just trying to make an excuse then I think it’s an excellent essay topic and will help your chances for sure</p>