College Discussion - View Single Post - Chances for the lowest GPA ever seen on CC and at ivy's

microblaster · 04-30-2008, 10:47 AM

Ok heres the problem, I go to an International school in India and I want to apply to top schools. However my GPA is a 3.14 and I am in like the middle 50% of my class (i have 45 kids in my class, only 17 do the diploma and in that im like ranked fifth, out of the other 28 kids less than 6 take more than 2 APs)

here is the list of schools:
University of Pennsylvania
University of Chicago
Dartmouth College
Northwestern University
Vanderbilt University
Georgetown University
Middlebury College
University of Southern California
University of Michigan

Do I realistically stand a chance at any of the schools?

BTW here are the rest of my stats

IB Diploma: 38/45 (lowest) its more around a 40/45

AP's: 2 5's in microecon and calc ab (btw i didnt take the classes so it doesnt show on my transcrpt)

ACT:32

ECs:
250+ hours community service
Varsity swimming, and team captain
MUN. I went to an international conference in china, they only send 10 from each school from grades 9-12, so like a few 100 kids
Rotary Club
Student Coucnil
Me and my friends made a school newspaper which discusse controversial topics

Does all this mean nothing in the face of my GPA and rankinig?

04-30-2008, 10:47 AM	#1
microblaster Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 52	Chances for the lowest GPA ever seen on CC and at ivy's Ok heres the problem, I go to an International school in India and I want to apply to top schools. However my GPA is a 3.14 and I am in like the middle 50% of my class (i have 45 kids in my class, only 17 do the diploma and in that im like ranked fifth, out of the other 28 kids less than 6 take more than 2 APs) here is the list of schools: University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago Dartmouth College Northwestern University Vanderbilt University Georgetown University Middlebury College University of Southern California University of Michigan Do I realistically stand a chance at any of the schools? BTW here are the rest of my stats IB Diploma: 38/45 (lowest) its more around a 40/45 AP's: 2 5's in microecon and calc ab (btw i didnt take the classes so it doesnt show on my transcrpt) ACT:32 ECs: 250+ hours community service Varsity swimming, and team captain MUN. I went to an international conference in china, they only send 10 from each school from grades 9-12, so like a few 100 kids Rotary Club Student Coucnil Me and my friends made a school newspaper which discusse controversial topics Does all this mean nothing in the face of my GPA and rankinig?