2.8 GPA someone please help

vinceh
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:37:54 +0000

What is your total high school GPA to date (freshman through junior year)? I interpreted your initial post to say that through sophomore year you had a 2.8 and the currently in junior year you have a 3.3; is that correct?

As for getting a 3.7 junior year, obviously higher grades give you more options than lower ones. This issue isn’t whether you will get into a college for engineering/computer science, the question you asked is whether you will get into any of the schools on your list. Personally, short of winning the Intel Science Award, I can’t think of anything that will help you get into MIT, Caltech or Stanford.

I would also suggest that reading accepted forums looking for hope is a waste of time. You don’t know the full circumstances of others’ applications. A 3.4/2010 can be very impressive depending on the circumstances; a 3.4 accomplished consistently over 3 1/2 years is likely far more impressive than one accomplished by combining 2 - 2.8s and 2 - 4.0s.

The time has come for you to accept some harsh realities and to start managing the process with your head and not your heart. If you want to apply to Mellon & Hopkins, by all means do so, but you need to augment them with a much less ambitious list. Without more realistic Match and Safety schools, (Georgia Tech and lower), there is a substantial risk that you will be shut out of your current list.

Some statistics:

Stanford Page Not Found : Stanford University; The last page lists the stats.
CMU [Admission > Admission Statistics](Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University)
CalTech [Caltech Undergraduate Admissions: 2009 Incoming Class Profile](http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/applying/profile)
Harvey Mudd [Mudd Student Body Profile](http://www.hmc.edu/admission1/hmcstudent1/studentbodyprofile.html)