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<p>Will chance back.</p>

<p>Applying Early Action
A. James Clark School of Engineering with finance as my backup.
Maryland Resident
Race: White
Gender: Male
Current Grade: 12th</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.01 (4.0 scale)
Weighted GPA: 3.6 (5.0 scale)
Class Rank: No idea, but I’d assume pretty low.</p>

<p>Reading SAT Score: 650
Math SAT Score: 700
Reading and Math Combined: 1350</p>

<p>APs:

  • Psychology
  • Physics C (Mechanics+E&M)
  • AB Calc
  • BC Calc
  • Environmental
  • Language & Composition
  • NSL
  • European History
  • Statistics </p>

<p>Other Courses:

  • Just your regular honors courses, nothing too great.</p>

<p>Work Experience:

  • Nothing official.</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:

  • Fairly unimpressive.
  • Varsity Track and Field freshmen year.
  • Club Soccer (Travel+ USL)
  • I help run an online website that has 6000 registered members.</p>

<p>Other information:

  • I don’t expect any aid or anything, just curious as to whether or not I’d get in. If you’d like any more information, please let me know.</p>
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<p>As a Maryland resident, you have a strong chance for general admission, IMHO. However, engineering is a different story. The 2012 freshman profile for A. James Clark School of Engineering admissions is:
SATs (Critical Reading/Math)
-Average SAT: 1381
-75th Percentile SAT: 1460
-25th Percentile SAT: 1320
Average HS CPA: 4.2</p>

<p>Of approximately 5,000 applicants for engineering only 1624 were admitted and about half enrolled. HOWEVER, many students that did not get admitted to engineering DID get admitted to the University of Maryland general admissions. Some of those students were invited to Honors and Scholars programs even though they weren’t admitted to engineering, so it just goes to show how competitive engineering is.</p>

<p>FYI, I don’t believe you can put finance as a backup major because both the Smith School of Business and Clark School are LEPs (limited enrollment programs) and you cannot have more than one LEP selected for your application.</p>

<p>So, where are my free cookies?</p>

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<p>I’d say no to Clark, maybe if you’re lucky for general admission.</p>

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<p>@maryversity,
Thank you very much for the detailed response. I had assumed that I was a fairly weak, but possible candidate for general admission. Hopefully you’re right and I am a strong candidate lol.</p>

<p>May I ask where you got the statistics for the James Clark School of Engineering? I could only find the stats for 06 which had 1350 as the 50%. Even if I was to be flat on the 50, I’d assume things wouldn’t be good as my gap is horrible.</p>

<p>I’m sorry I mixed it up, I must have been economics. One of those two didn’t fall under the business school, it allowed me to select it as my backup.</p>

<p>Your cookies are in my van. Quick you need to get inside and help me find my lost puppy!</p>

<p>@Subsidized,
Alright cheers for the reply.</p>

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<p>The reason I said you are strong chance for general admission is that you are a Maryland resident with strong test scores. I agree that your gpa is a weakness, but hopefully they will take into account the rigor of your classes. If you have some great essays and letters of recommendation, I think you will be ok but just remember that the only “assessment” of your admission chances that counts is the one made by the school itself! </p>

<p>The stats I quoted for engineering were from the accepted student’s day presentation - I am the mom of a freshman engineering student. A woman next to me took a photo of that slide and I thought it was a great idea so I did the same…yes, I am that silly, but I wanted to show my husband when I got home. However, that info def comes in handy to share cc with hopefuls!</p>

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<p>OP, a lot will depend on your LORs and how your poor grades were distributed. If you struggled early in high school and then showed steady improvement, this will be a plus. If, however, your grades were steady throughout high school, your chances are not good. Perhaps a Spring admit.</p>

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<p>@Mary,
Thanks again for another great reply. Eh, no idea how my recommendation will be. I transferred junior year and didn’t really make my mark or do anything significant.</p>

<p>Brilliant, and you’re right. I would have had way of knowing.</p>

<p>@plum,
Thanks for the reply mate. Eh I have the opposite of the trend they are looking for. I start off the school year with straight A’s, then each quarter I tend to drop full letters grades until I’m left with almost a C flat average!</p>