<p>Hello, i am currently a sophomore in high school, and i want to go to college park and get into the computer science honors program. </p>
<p>my current cumulative GPA from 9th grade is 3.3
and my WGPA is 3.8</p>
<p>i took AP gov last year but unfortunately failed and got a 2, and i did pretty bad in the class it self. </p>
<p>this year i am taking ap us history, and i have an A in the class,
next year i plan on taking AP Chemistry, AP Comp Sci, and AP lang. </p>
<p>My GPA was pretty bad last year, and for the first semester this year, i will probably get a 3.85 or possibly a 4.0, which will raise my GPA and WGPA.</p>
<p>Currently at my school I am in the Robotics Club, Varsity Tennis, Rubiks cube club, Website management team, and an electric car racing team for electrathon. </p>
<p>I take practice SATs from the KAPLAN book and i am around the 1600-1700 level. i did pretty bad on the PSAT this year and got a 148, im going to take a prep class the summer before junior year. </p>
<p>What GPA and SAT/ACT scores should i get to secure admission into UMD College Park Computer science honors program?</p>
<p>The CS honors program takes applications in your second year. You would need a 3.25 GPA and a professor to sponsor your admission. You need to concentrate on being accepted to UMCP first.</p>
<p>It’s good that you’re bringing your GPA up and that you’re taking such challenging coursework. Keep that up.</p>
<p>UMD’s Math range for the middle 50% is 610-720 and the CR range is 580-690. UMD depends very heavily on SATs and GPAs to make acceptance decisions.</p>
<p>So if you want to know what you need to do to give yourself a good chance of admission, I’d say you need to keep doing what you’re doing in your coursework and score a 670 and a 640 on the M+CR. If you want to secure admission as someone who eventually wants to major in compsci you will get slightly higher SAT scores. </p>
<p>There’s no magic to the SAT. In fact, you’ve already demonstrated you can do well on the SAT because you’re already focusing on it as a sophomore. All it takes to do well on it is steady preparation, a little bit every day for as long as it takes to get the score you want. 15-30 minutes a day every day. Alternate CR one day and M the next. 7/364 (give yourself off for Mother’s Day because she’s worth it!).</p>
<p>It also would be good to have some backup plans, in any event. UMBC is also strong in compsci and might be easier to get into. Good luck.</p>