Chance me with my 3.45 GPA =)

plinz345
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:56:46 +0000

hold up, hold up. You have a 3.45 GPA (not great) but you’re still top 7% in your class. It seems that your high school may be very competitive. And even with a pretty low GPA, you have amazing SAT IIs. You got a C in a Chem class but an 800 on the SAT, this may indicate that your school may set the bar pretty high.

I would just work on getting a higher SAT I. Your in the range for Ivy League schools but because of your low GPA, I’d just raise the SAT a little, maybe over a 2200, but that is if you feel you can do better.

Your volunteer events show tremendous initiative. I would definitely highlight those in your application. And you aren’t focused on one thing, You’re into theater, culture, web design and research. You are an all around strong application despite what would appear to be a low GPA. If you apply to any schools in the regular round, I would definitely work on achieving a higher GPA in your first semester just to show an upward trend.

Its hard to say if you’d get in SCEA Yale. If you have tremendously well written essays and show some passion through those essays, I have a feeling you’d be deferred just so the admissions team can see if you can improve your GPA. But I think because of your SAT II scores and the concert you helped organize (btw, wow! congrats! that’s amazing) you’d be later accepted, imo. Better make some damn good essays…