Chance Me (Special Situation)/Generic GPA vs EC Situation

NgN33r
Tue, 11 May 2010 13:20:43 +0000

Ok, I go to the Texas Academy of Math of Science. Its a program hosted by UNT and basically instead of 11th and 12th grade at a high school i take college classes at UNT.
Now. all TAMS classes are considered to be at the AP level so…

AP:

Calculus AB, BC
Biology
Chemistry
English
Political Science
Micro Economics

Now, this program is not ranked and I have 2 separate gpa’s (one from my high school with a pre-IB program and one from TAMS)

GPA from High schoo: 4.373333 (the scale is 4 for regular classes, 4.5 for honors, and 5 for AP but only 1 AP class was offered ) - Third Rank

GPA from TAMS: 3.89 (on a 4.0 scales)

My SAT: 2370 (800 reading, math)
PSAT: 222

EC/Accomplishments

Participation in AMC, Math Counts, Tx Math League, McNabb
Finalist in Texas Science Olympiad
First Place and Grand Prize in Regional Science fair (2 years)
First Place in the International Sustainable World Project Olympiad (2 years)
First Place and Best in Category in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance/The Lemelson Foundation Award
Recipient of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Honor
Environmental Protection Agency P3 Award
Dean’s List for Academic Achievement in Eleventh Grade
Qualified for National Academic Competition Nationals 2 years in a rw
State qualified for HOSA and FBLA

Extracurriculars:

Played Violin for 6 years- Sunbonnet Classic State Competition Superior Award

Over 100 hours of hospital volunteering
Over 50 hours of other volunteering programs.

Leadership:

Functioned as a leader in the Learning About Science and Engineering Research (LASER) Club

Co-President of the Clark High School Math Team

Operations Officer of the National Academic Competition team

Executive of the Robotics Division of the Junior Engineering and Technical Society (JETS)

OK so my question is this: My GPA is obviously not perfect, but my EC’s and Standardized test scores are pretty good.

I’m looking to apply to:

MIT
Cal Tech
Harvard
Olin
Stanford
Princeton
Yale
Cornell
U of Penn
Berkley
Rice
Carnegie Melon
rensselaer
UT

So Chance me please, but generically- how much will my less than perfect GPA hurt me?

and generically,

How important is GPA to the colleges above compared to EC/Standard Test Scores