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04-05-2008, 06:06 PM
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#16 | | Junior Member
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| thanks a lot guys!! your posts are really helpful and reassuring!! | 
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04-06-2008, 12:20 PM
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#17 | | Junior Member
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| Personally, I was in the IB Program so junior and senior year were mostly IB classes. The classes that weren't IB, I made sure were all AP. Before junior year, I took as many AP classes that I could.
Also, if you want to get into the Echols Scholars program, an SAT at or above 2300 is probably the safest way to be. | |
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04-06-2008, 01:17 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
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| Thanks!! I don't take the SAT 'till June, but I would definitely be more than happy with a 2300+ =). Barq45, what was your GPA -if you don't mind me asking? | |
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04-06-2008, 01:23 PM
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| 3.96 Unweighted and a 4.52 Weighted | |
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04-06-2008, 02:34 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
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| As Dean J has said, people get flagged for Echols not because of high SATs but because of an overall passion to learn that their whole application projects. There is no minimum SAT score. | |
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04-06-2008, 07:42 PM
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#21 | | Junior Member
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| yeah, thats true. i know there are no set minimum numbers. | |
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04-06-2008, 07:49 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
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| I took 8 AP classes senior year. But that was because I was an idiot in my scheduling and had only taken 1 AP class before that (though I did take all honors courses). But if you space it out evenly between junior and senior year I would say 3-5 AP classes is a solid amount. | |
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04-06-2008, 08:44 PM
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#23 | | Junior Member
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| Thank you!! That sounds like a good amount. Yeah, i'm doing 3 IB/1 AP this year and will probably end up doing something like 5 IB/1 AP next year. | |
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04-06-2008, 09:28 PM
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#24 | | Junior Member
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| Another question to throw out there- how negatively do admissions view GPA dropping junior year? My grades are definitely dropping a little | |
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04-06-2008, 11:31 PM
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#25 | | Member
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| Ah, junior year is definitely quite important for admissions. Better work on getting those grades up. =)
And meh, I've had bad experiences trying to get credit for IB courses, in fact I'd recommend you to take the AP courses over IB courses if you could. Quick example, at my school AP and IB Economics are combined, so I take both the AP Micro and Macro Econ exams, and the IBSL exam. My year there were a lot of US specific questions on the exam (I lived overseas) so I ended up with a 4 on the Micro exam. Turns out you had to have a 5 on the Micro before your Macro score would even be considered for credit -- this was my year though. So, no credit for any of my AP Econ exams, even though I had a 5 on the Macro. I thought alright no big deal, my IB should get me something since I got a 7 (full marks). Bah. It wasn't even considered because it was the SL level. Ridiculous. I had to take Econ 201 and 202 (equivalent of AP Econ Micro and Macro) and was bored out of my brains in those classes.
I 'loved' how my high school loved to emphasize the IB diploma (we offered both IB and AP) and said US schools valued it as equally as the AP courses. Complete hot air in my opinion, some schools didn't even recognize IB courses and certainly less credit were given to those classes. | |
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04-07-2008, 08:31 AM
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#26 | | Junior Member
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| Yeah, i agree, melli. My school offers Full IB and some AP classes and REALLY pushes IB IB IB IB..and then SL classes don't even receive credit! And they're certainly not easier than any AP class! Yeah, i'll try to take as many APs as I can....i might take AP English, but it's really a pain to get out of the IB english program. We'll see! | |
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04-07-2008, 05:17 PM
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#27 | | Junior Member
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| okay, so i spent some time calculating my potential GPA ..and it seems like i'll PROBABLY have a 3.8 something unweighted GPA by the end of junior year . assuming senior year grades don't bring me down any..do you think a 3.8 is too low for UVA? i'm feeling a bit dissapointed..i would feel MUCH better with a 3.9 | |
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04-07-2008, 06:19 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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| GPA-grovelling occurs too much on CC. 
Don't grovel, man. If need be, up the ante. If you have the opportunity to dual-enroll at a local community college or state university, do it. (If you can handle extra subjects on a college level.) | |
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04-07-2008, 06:34 PM
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#29 | | Junior Member
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| haha, very true, galoisien! sorry to add to the grovelling! =) unfortunately, i don't have the opportunity to dual-enroll..but i probably will end up taking an extra class because im most likely taking world history 1 over the summer (i have to take it sometime for SOL requirements)..haha. at least that will at a little something to the GPA! | |
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04-07-2008, 07:28 PM
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#30 | | Junior Member
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| 3.8 unweighted is good. What's your weighted GPA? and are you IS or OOS? | |
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