Yet another Asian stressing out...

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.81
GPA - Weighted: 4.90
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 460</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 780
SAT I Critical Reading: 690
SAT I Writing: 640
ACT: 32
SAT II U.S. History: 650
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 640
SAT II Physics: 660</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Significant Extracurriculars: Debate Team
NHS
2 Jobs (Waiter/Bagboy)
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Varsity Tennis
Captain of Tennis Team
Volunteer/Service Work: Red Cross, NHS
Honors and Awards: Employee of Month (Publix 250 Employees)
National Forensics League (Debate Team)</p>

<p>Top School: UVa (OSS, but I have legacy so my app is put into IS pool)
Berkeley
Georgetown
Cornell
UF (IS)</p>

<p>So fellow CCer's what are my chances???</p>

<p>Come on guys...</p>

<p>How can your weighted average be more than 1.00 higher than your unweighted?</p>

<p>Honestly I'd say great chance at anywhere, but your ECs seem slightly generic.</p>

<p>collectivsynergy.... probably took 10-15 AP classes</p>

<p>different high schools weight classes differently. some people at my school have a weighted GPA of around 5.3</p>

<p>Doesn't matter how many APs he took, remember that even if ALL your classes were APs you'd have a maximum boost of 1.00. Aka a 4.00 UW with all APs is 5.00. It must be a very strange weighting system if you can somehow crease that. I'm not saying his weighted GPA is inordinately high, I'm saying it's impossibly high for his unweighted one unless his school bumps it up by 2.00 or 1.50 for AP classes or something.</p>

<p>Some schools have weird GPA scales like the other guy said...that's why schools only care about UW gpa.</p>

<p>Decent gpa, decent rank, decent test scores (imo turn in ACT), decent ecs</p>

<p>UVA - High Match
Berkeley - Reject OOS
Georgetown - Reach
Cornell - Reach
UF - Safety/Match</p>

<p>gl in college =]</p>

<p>Untrue statement. Schools take into account your weighted average, though some colleges have a policy of recalculating it themselves.</p>

<p>I meant good ones.</p>

<p>Top-notch colleges can and will take into account weighted averages because it's the easiest and starkest way to factor in the difficulty of your course load. Of course, most of them recalculate it based on their own weighting scale to level the field of weird weighting by your HS. I don't know who told you that colleges will only look at your unweighted average, but whoever did is dead wrong.</p>

<p>What should I do to get into Berkeley?</p>

<p>Your SATI and ACT seem good. You will definitely have to raise your SAT subjects for sure. BTW, how did you manage to score a 780 on your SAT reasoning but a 640 on the Math II of the Subjects test? quite peculiar.</p>

<p>Also, please elaborate on your school's grading scale by listing your classes and their respective grades, as your UW GPA does seem unreasonable. I believe you meant a 3.9, as you are only top 10%. A 4.9 UW is really good, IVY league good. I was told that the UC's re-weight applicants' courses, as someone mentioned.</p>

<p><em>sniff sniff</em>
is there grade inflation here?</p>

<p>My UW GPA is 3.81 and my weighted GPA is off the charts.</p>

<p>Freshman:
Pre-IB Bio A/A
Pre-IB Geometry A/A
Drafting A/A (Elective)
Business A/A (Elective)
Pre-IB US Gov A
Pre-IB Economics A
Writing/Composition A/A
Pre-IB Eng Lit A/A
Pre-IB Spanish A/A</p>

<p>Soph:
Pre-IB Chem A/B
Pre-IB Eng A/A
AP World A/A
Accounting A/A
SAT Tutoring Math- A
SAT Tutoring CR- A
Pre-IB Algebra 2 A/A
Pre-IB Spanish A/A/A/A</p>

<p>Junior
IB HL Chem B/B
IB HL Eng B/B
IB HL Math B/A
IB HL Hist B/A
IB SL Span A/B/A/A
IB SL Physics A/A/B/A</p>

<p>This is my current grades history. Don't hate on me for my junior year because the difficulty from frosh and soph years was no way near the insanity of junior year. I was working 40 hour weeks at a restaurant (illegally, of course) during my soph year and pulling straight A's. I had almost no job during junior year and I was staying up all night half the time just to finish all the damn HW.</p>

<p>P.S. I'm ranked 17th in my class of 460 so I am realy Top 5%.</p>

<p>Get in awesome essays and recs. The rest should be history.</p>

<p>hehe...bump</p>

<p>Great grades, good SAT's, and poor SAT II's. I think all schools are within range for you, I'm pretty sure you'll be in at UVA and UF. Gtown is a high match with Cornell and UCB being low reaches. I'd try to up those SAT II scores, especially the math iic. I think your math score is about average. Good luck though, you have a good shot at getting into many schools on your list.</p>

<p>Please chance me at:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>your threat title bothers me.
reject for cornell, berkeley, and georgetown.
low reach for uva.
in at florida.</p>

<p>Why does my thread title bother you?</p>