<p>Any idea if I will get in…specifically to the journalism school?</p>
<p>Out of State (NJ)
White Female
GPA: 4.0 Weighted: 5.381
SATS: 1220/1600 eek … 1820/2400
Class Rank: 40/651 about top 5-6%
Many extracurricular activies such as 4 yr varsity soccer starter, national honor society, national honor society officer, student council, renaissance, etc.</p>
<p>…thank you !</p>
<p>With your GPA, I think you have a good chance, even with all the competition from NJ. Your SATs may take you out of the running for merit $, though.</p>
<p>Another thing they will look at is how many AP/IB courses you took, compared to what is offered at your school.</p>
<p>i agree. most like you will get in. just your sat is a little weak.</p>
<p>How do you get over a 5.0 Weighted? At my high school, regular classes are 4.0, honors classes are 4.5, and AP classes are 5.0. Also, you can not take any AP classes your freshman year.</p>
<p>thanks everyonee… and i honestly don’t really understand how our gpa scale works … the highest weighted is 6.0 …honors/ap’s are weighted the same …so if you get an A in that its 5, whereas an A in a regular class is 4 …a B in honors/ap is a 4 where a B in regular is a 3? so basically a B in honors is the same as an A in a regular class…i’m not sure if this is making any sense</p>
<p>I believe that UMD does its own “weighting”, because schools vary so much on how they do weighting. My kids’ high school was similar to chelsea, AP A=6 points, Honors A=5 points, “regular” class A=4. Obviously it would not be the same to look at a student’s weighted AP score from this compared to a school that only awards 1 point to AP courses. They “level the playing field” when looking at grades, not just simply what the number is, coming in from your h.s.</p>
<p>I agree with astro, UMD does it’s own weighting. DS’'s wgpa changed under the UMD system.</p>
<p>In NC, a 6.0 was given for certain courses taken at the CC while you were in hs, (basket weaving was a 4.0, but if you took a math course that was above the AP, which was 5.0, they gave a 6.0 for it).</p>
<p>Also, realize that UMD will look at the course an honors at a school in TN might be deemed by UMD as a STD. If you ever look at the sealed transcript sent to colleges it will be very enlightening to you. In that envelope contains every SAT you ever took, the date, your shot records, their grading scale, the school profile, etc. It is not just a record of your classes, EC’s, gpa and rank. Even in the docs will be a report regarding your school, i.e. School of Excellence, Blue Ribbon, % of students that go IVY, Private, IS, OOS, Community, Technical, none. </p>
<p>I have stated this before, but will state it again, UMD also looks at the school. You can have a 4.0 gpa, #1 in rank, class valedictorian, but if the school is not as competitive as the person who has a 3.7, top 15%, you may find that they got in and you don’t. Many of us have been here for yrs and read the chance me threads, there are ones that we go in and say “IN”, only for them to get the “AT THIS TIME” letter. UMD is very large, and when they have close to 30K applicants, they need to sort piles very quickly. The first sorting will be STAT driven, GPA, SAT and IS/OOS. From there they start whittling down.</p>
<p>FYI, I found out about the transcript thing because I ordered one for myself. After that I spoke to the GC at DS’s HS. They explained to me why the HS info was on it, and how it would impact our child. For example, he was ranked top 10% in the HS, but the problem was only 4% went Ivy, which would mean to UMD that the HS was not as strenuous as a school that had the top 15% go IVY. He did get in from OOS, received a merit scholarship and Scholars.</p>