<p>I recently had the chance to visit the university of rochester and i fell in love with the school.
from academics to extracirriculars, the campus and well.. everything!
i decided this is the school i would like to attend but my problem i'm still not sure what they're looking for..
what is my chance of getting in if my ACT score is a 31, my classes are mostly honors and ap's, my gpa is a solid A (Not an A- or an A+ but an "A" (94-95)...
i have B/B+'s in some of my ap classes but the rest of my transcript is A's...
i only have 100-130 volunteer hours but i have tutored and mentored quite a bit and have been committed to several school clubs and activities for all my years of high school. </p>
<p>is there anything else i can do to increase my chances of getting in?
im a junior.. if i keep this up in my senior year am i all set?</p>
<p>did you already take an interview? I didn’t and I still got in so even without it don’t freak out. just write really good why UR answers and essays. I think that’s the reason that I got accepted because my gpa was lacking and my SATs were only 2070. you will definitely get in from what I see though.</p>
<p>actually i’m a junior in high school and i just went on college visits over spring break.
at this point i’m just going to focus on my test scores for ACT’s and SAT subject tests.
but i’m really interested in UR.</p>
<p>Sharath192, what would u consider a “lacking” gpa?<br>
and a 2070 sat score would be around my ACT score of 31…</p>
<p>oh and what kind of community/extracirriculars did u do?</p>
<p>my gpa was 3.34. but the thing is I had a valid excuse for my gpa being horrible freshman year (our family was going through some major crap). for my community I had 500+ hours helping underprivileged children in the span of 4 years and held officer positions in a couple of clubs. really though I didn’t have a single activity that I kept going for all four years, just many different activites (and I guess they liked the variability). your gpa is much much better than mine even though I don’t know what it is in the point scale. don’t worry you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>wow you had a lot of community service. i have barely 130hrs, and i’m hoping i can go somewhere over the summer to volunteer.
thanks for the reply though, i feel a lot better about UR now.
oh and i think my gpa converted into the 4.5 scale is between a 3.8 and 4.2 but i’m not so sure either.</p>
<p>I’ll try not to write too much here, because I have a lot to say!</p>
<p>Get away from focusing too much on quantity and try to focus more on quality. The number of community service hours you have completed is impressive, but I’m more interested in learning the type of service that you are engaged in, why it is important to you, and what you have learned from the experience, regardles of the number of hours you have logged. The same is true of your GPA - focus on the classes you have taken and the reasons why you chose to take those courses and not others. Highlight your academic strengths - maybe you are a B student in English/History but have straight A’s in Math/Science, your intended field of study.</p>
<p>The bottom line… don’t get caught up in this ‘well-rounded’ mumbo jumbo, and don’t live your life in a way that you think looks best on paper. Do what you love, be yourself, and everything else will fall into place.</p>
<p>That being said… INTERVIEW!!! Of our current freshman class (rising sophomores), 70% of the students interviewed as part of their admissions process. It is a great way for us to get to know you beyond what we see in electronic format, and that is very important.</p>
<p>MConklin, Do you know how many freshman enrolled for the class of 2014 ? What is the average SAT/ ACT/s for this class? How many of them are from NYS and out of state? How many males/ females? Any other interesting tidbits about the incoming freshman class?</p>
<p>We will end up with a freshman class between 1,100 and 1,200. Though I don’t yet have the statistics for enrolling students, I can provide you with some info regarding the students that were offered admission, though I caution anyone against interpreting these numbers too literally, as they are a fraction of the criteria considered in our application review process.</p>
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<li>The average GPA was between a 3.7 and a 3.8 on a 4.0 scale.</li>
<li>The average SAT was a 2075, and the average ACT is, I believe, a 31.</li>
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<p>As for other ‘interesting tidbits’… I’ll have more information for you as it becomes available. I would suspect to have an increasingly diverse student body next year based on the applications that we recieved (more students were applying from places further away from NYS than ever before, including a 10% increase from the West Coast). Also, Rochester is generally 50/50 in terms of male to female ratio.</p>
<p>As I said, more to come… it is always fun for me as a counselor to get this information, and I’d be happy to share it with you once it is available.</p>
<p>MConklin, does University of Rochester take SAT II Subject Test Scores as a big part of the admissions process?
and is there any way i can talk to current UR students for more information on my interested major and just the school in general?</p>
<p>I just recently got accepted at UofR and will be attending in the Fall… I didn’t have the most impressive gpa (3.6 unweighted) as well as the highest exams- i submitted my ACT 25-. But I believe that they hold true when they say that they look at the “whole package”, I believe that my essay was one of the strongest components of my application. My letters of rec. i also believe played a huge part. So like I said, when filling out the application-just be yourself. I was, and i’m very excited on attending! Go Yellowjackets!</p>
<p>Sorry - I have been inactive for a bit. SAT Subject Tests are not required and are therefore not heavily factored into the admissions process. If a student performs exceptionally well it certainly helps, but relatively pedestrian/poor performance will not harm the review process, as the tests are not required.</p>