<p>@ SLight: With a 32 ACT and 2160 SAT you have shown the intellectual capacity to get at or very near a 4.0 at just about any high school in the country. This tells me your lower GPA is due to problems in your study habits or study methods. It may be true that you would have had a higher GPA at your public school (although equating middle school to high school is not a valid comparison…).Ultimately, the AP test serves to gauge your overall performance compared to others across the nation (not just your school) and your performance would seem to indicate either you were lazy in your AP Chem class or your school is not nearly as rigorous as you claim, in which case you cannot use that as an excuse for your GPA. In short, stop whining about how going to public school would have given you a free ride to GT. Perform well next year and see what happens. That is all you can do. And even if you don’t get in as a freshmen you can always transfer if you do well at another college. There are multiple ways to get into Tech, and there are many great schools out there besides Tech. You should not define your life or high school career by whether you get into any one particular college. In Lincoln’s words, “People are about as happy as they make up there minds to be.” Make up your mind to be happy no matter where you end up.</p>