<p>Nope. 2.75 GPA junior year = basically no chance.</p>
<p>i dont have a 2.75, we go by weighted which is a 4.0 or a 3.9</p>
<p>Oboe, it doesn’t matter that your school goes by weighted GPA, the colleges will look at your unweighted</p>
<p>It’s a 2.75 unweighted, which most colleges look at specifically. Weighting varies so much between high schools, it usually is unweighted and put on a 4.0 scale by each college. To give you a hint of the caliber of student Ivies are looking for, Colgate (second-tier school, significantly below the Ivies) told me specifically at an information session that the average student has a 3.7 unweighted GPA and has taken a very rigorous course schedule. The average ivy league student has an A average with an incredibly difficult course schedule; you have a C+ average. Good luck.</p>
<p>are u serious? what the hell am I taking hard classes for if people in reg classes could have a 4.0 GPA??? you mean to tell me they will have a better chance? so what is the effing point of taking these classes…I seriously never knew this.</p>
<p>are u serious? what the hell am I taking hard classes for if people in reg classes could have a 4.0 GPA??? you mean to tell me they will have a better chance? so what is the effing point of taking these classes…I seriously never knew this. I mean i worked my butt off to get higher SAT’s and it happened, now this??</p>
<p>well, that is always a contention of some students. there is always this argument about whether an A in a regular class is better than a B in an ap/honor classes. of course, the ivies just say that it is best to get an A in the ap/honors class. </p>
<p>personally, i have always thought that a B in an AP class is better than an A in a regular class, but who knows…</p>
<p>and like everyone has said above, you will be competing with high achieving students (minorities or not) that got A’s in their AP classes.</p>
<p>well i might as well drop ap physics c and take ap environmental science, drop ap calculus and take ap statistics, drop ap english literature and take honors english IV, drop ap government and take honors government, and drop ap french and take like ucf engineering or something. right?</p>
<p>if you think you will perform better in those classes, then go ahead and take them…but your courseload may no longer be viewed as most rigorous by the colleges.</p>
<p>But, on the other hand, if you’re getting Cs in all these classes, it looks pretty bad nevertheless. It sounds to me like you SHOULDN’T be at an Ivy league school-if you’re struggling this much with a heavy courseload, a semester at Harvard will completely destroy you.</p>
<p>I got a 700 on Verbal, 710 on Math and 540 on writing. I knew I was gonan do good. does this change you guys’ entire perspective now from me being dumb? I told you that I didnt really try on that SAT but no you guys didnt wanna believe me and I knew I was gonna do good on this one. Am I qualified for any Ivy’s now?</p>
<p>HAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! 1950! ahahah so low. A lot of people here can easily beat you by over 400 points</p>
<p>…SIGH… how old was that SAT score? this is so tarded… coulndt you just have weighted (slight pun intended- if its actually a pun) until you got your scores back? w/e, idc…</p>
<p>i just got the new one back today, those old scores were from like first semester of school from the october one. and i dont see why its funny that i got a 1950…</p>
<p>yeah, sal, that was really mean…</p>
<p>Okay here is the deal:
Affirmative Action helps, but not that much. I had scores and a GPA that would have put me in the running if I were not a minority. I took less APs than you but still have one of the most challenging schedules my school offers. I am very involved in extracurriculars and I expressed interest in the one Ivy I applied to. I never received one C in high school never mind a multitude like you have.<br>
I still did not get into the Ivy I applied to. I am sorry but I have to tell you that your grades make you unqualified for an Ivy. Your test score is still pretty low for an Ivy, although it is above average for the country. Affirmative Action gives a boost to minorities who are otherwise qualified for the school. I am not saying this to be hurtful or mean; I just want to let you know what you are up against. Go ahead, prove us wrong. But know that the chances are very slim.</p>
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<p>For the sake of argument, I’ll refrain from quoting all your previous posts where you claimed that your multitude of other talents would make up for a crappy SAT.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone here said you were dumb. That’s subjective. But if you knew you had a worthless SAT score before anyway, why bother posting it? Or why not at least include an explanation? Oversight?</p>
<p>Judging from your verbal skills displayed so far, I’m not surprised your writing score is still in the 500 range. But even if you only took math+verbal, that’s 1410, lower range for ivy league. Schools would then look at your grades, to see if you were the type of smart kid who just doesn’t do well on AP tests. But all they’d see is a GPA that bespeaks C’s–many of them. It’s been said so many times–please read it for once: plenty of kids across the country and the world can take a harder courseload than yours and still get straight A’s across the board, backed up with a perfect SAT/ACT, and rescue drowning kittens in their spare time. The combo is perfect scores in the hardest classes.</p>
<p>You have excuses–they don’t want to hear them; they don’t have to hear them. Most ivies have acceptance rates resting at around 10%. If they reject you, they have 10 more kids to take your place and stats tells us that they’ll take harder classes than you, and do better in them. They’ll have more extracurriculars, more unique ecs, and, judging by your writing score, better essays.</p>
<p>Stop getting hung up on going to a brand name school. Have you tried looking beyond the name? Most likely not, since your subject of this board says that all you want is to be labelled “ivy.” But even if you do miraculously get in, look to your future. Employers don’t have affirmative action for you to use as a crutch and I wonder how good a “Failed Out of Harvard-First Semester” is going to look. That kind of black mark on your resume would be hard to find excuses for, and you’ll need a job by then–to pay off your student loans in excess of 40k for a year at any ivy leaguer. Don’t count on much fin aid, with a 100k income and those stats.</p>
<p>I feel like a record player–droning the same thing on and on in the hope that one of these times, what I’m saying will get through your head. Put shortly, you’ve pretty much killed your chances with those C’s, and unless you find the cure to cancer in the next year or so, your chances from a fair standpoint don’t look nearly as good as what you’d like to believe.</p>
<p>I feel like I’m talking to a kid who’s sticking his fingers in his ears going “lalala, I can’t hear you!”</p>
<p>**TO THE OP ARE YOU A JUNIOR OR SENIOR **</p>
<p>Just to clear things up, because it seems there are a lot of contradictions within your posts.</p>
<p>Im coming in late on this argument but from what I’ve seen all I can say is that Oboesmrtguy40’s GPA is not horrible but he really doesnt have much of a change of getting into an Ivy league school even if he did raise his SAT score up. Also I’m black too and when i first came on here people were tellin me my 3.7 uw and 4.2 w GPA was bad and i thought everyone on here was crazy but i then did realize there is a lot of competition especially for IVY, and even though I am black that is not going to guarantee me a spot in any school. I thought why am I taking hard classes when i can have a 4.0. COlleges look to see if you’ve challenged yourself also. Thats all i have to say</p>
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Gumball, i do not have insecurity problems, my only problem is with stupid kids using derogatory terms and thinking that it’s okay…</p>
<p>and, that term is NOT slang, it is a racial slur. and it is against the TOS…</p>
<p>Your unweighted GPA for grades 9-11 is 3.26. This is what colleges will look at. They will also look at grade trends. You have a huge downward trend, which is a big negative. They consider course difficulty also. Your 10th and 11th grade courseload is good, but your 9th grade courseload is very weak. Considering that 9th grade is the only year you got decent grades (although still on the low side for Ivy’s), this will make colleges doubt that you can succeed in difficult classes. </p>
<p>Your SAT scores are fine now. Fine, not good. Colleges will be considering the writing score next year. So your score is the equivalent of a 1300, which is extremely low for Ivy league colleges. Furthermore, you are better off with a more evenly split score than such an extremely low writing score- it makes you look incompetent.</p>
<p>Don’t expect to get into a top 30 university, let alone and Ivy.</p>