chances at umass amherst.

collegecrazyy
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:04:04 +0000

heyy! okay so i’ve heard so many things about umass amherst accepting a lot of people but then theres always a few people who say that it’s a random selection process and tough to get into. so i was wondering if anyone could help me evaluate my chances…

my gpa definitely is not so great. but here it goes
i have about an 86% after junior year. 90 after sophomore year…
my classes…

two honors classes freshman year - physics and english
one honors class sophomore year - english
two honors classes and one ap class junior year - english and german honors, ap bio
&for senior year i’ll be taking one honors class and three ap’s - english honors, ap envirosci, ap german, and ap statistics

e.c.
-marching band all four years – officer position for senior year
-international club --vp junior year, president senior year
-peer leader since junior year
-got into NHS junior year
-science olympiad–i have a captain position for senior year
-track and field only one year (i guess i don’t need to include that…)
-work at a tutoring service
-volunteer at hospital - i have over 350 hours so far
-basketball band since sophomore year
-been in band since fourth grade (eh meaning all four years of high school lol)

SATs… 1300/1600…670math 630reading …760 on my first writing, unfortunately a 670 the second time. probably will retake SATs in october.

please please please give me an honest opinion of whether i will get in or not. thanks so much!! =]