Chances of acceptance

timely
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:51:36 +0000

rorydude, nobody here can give you a yes or no. We don’t know…we can only guess. Have you thought about the Corps? Since you did Police Explorers, I thought you might be interested in something like that. My S is in the Corps and he loves it.

You can go here for more info: [Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets: Forging Leaders of Character](http://www.aggiecorps.org/) . If you aren’t sure, you could do “spend the night with the corps” (there’s info on the website about it) to see what it’s like. If you talk to Corps recruiting and commit to being in the Corps, I’m almost sure you’d get admitted to the university. It’s a big plus in the admissions decision.

A 3.7 is not bad, of course. However, they are more interested in your unweighted GPA. Every school weights differently, so weighted GPA’s don’t mean a whole lot. Class rank is much more important. You are in the top 25% of your class, but near the bottom of the top 25%. Because of that, they’d like to see a higher SAT score. That would tell them that you are probably just at a very competitive school. In other words, you are plenty smart, but you are going to school with lots of other plenty smart kids, and that’s why your class rank isn’t higher.

Your extracurricular stuff looks good, so that should help. You still didn’t tell us what your SAT score is with just the critical reading & math sections (no writing). That’s what admissions is looking at, so we can’t really see how good a candidate you are without that info.