<p>indian male instate public high school
28 ACT (shooting for 30+ in june)
~3.7 unweighted ~4.5 weighted (.04 honors, .08 AP)
rank 150/~615 </p>
<p>around 80 “official” community service hours on transcript
and 120 hours volunteering at an indian cultural camp which my school didn’t take into account since they don’t consider religious hours.</p>
<p>NHS, French Honors, FBLA
FBLA officer … 2nd place districts, 5th place states for cyber security
Designed and maintain website for local small business</p>
<p>Senior Schedule
AP Eng Lit
AP Euro History
AP Bio
Math analysis
Web design 3
PC support 2
History of Vietnam/Economics honors
AP Computer Sci (online FLVS)</p>
<p>Does UF care about improvement throughout high school?
my freshman and sophomore years were full of regular and not many honors courses while even getting some Bs and 1 D
However junior year I have straight As with 3 APs and 2 honors</p>
<p>You guys can probably tell from my interests that I want to major in computers … possibly computer sci or computer engineering</p>
<p>Well UF cares a lot about schedule strenght so?</p>
<p>You have an ok chance. I would give you a 70% chance since your GPA is so high and you have a tough schedule. Rigor of schedule is something Florida weights just as highly as GPA.</p>
<p>However, you have many factors working against you. Firstly, you are not in the top 10% of your graduating class. Florida considers this more than they say. Secondly, a D on your transcript is going to stand out like a red flag. </p>
<p>Moreover, I seriously doubt you have a 4.5 weighted by UF’s standards. UF only weights CORE classes. All of your computer classes (AP Computer Science, PC Design, Web Support) will not be considered at all and those B’s and D’s will bring your GPA down considerable if they are in core classes such as Math or English.</p>
<p>At this point you should try to maybe retake the class you got a D in and try for a better ACT score. I have seen people with much better standardized scores get turned down with similar GPAs.</p>
<p>Overall , you should make it. You are showing an improvement in your GPA, something colleges like to see. The class of 2010 has less people than 2009, so it should be easier to get into UF this year than last year.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks! </p>
<p>I’m already taking most of your recommendations like I already am retaking that D course online and trying for a better ACT in june.</p>
<p>as for my rank hopefully … it would jump up a lot because of me retaking the D and having it updated since the end of the year is near. However that would probably just put me in top 15% at most.</p>
<p>thanks again</p>
<p>Hold on… AP Comp Sci is not a core course?</p>
<p>its not counted toward my UF GPA?</p>
<p>I think he’s wrong.</p>
<p>doesn’t really matter.
theres going to be a very significant gap between your weighted gpa and your UF gpa.
mine went from 5.5 to sub-4.0. the difference being that i have a 3.4 for unweighted.</p>
<p>you will have an opportunity on your application to explain why you showed so much improvement, but you should be prepared to have a good explanation for why you did so poorly starting out.</p>
<p>but you have a chance.</p>
<p>So UF does look at the trend of grades and strength of schedule? I had a rough Freshman/Sophomore year because of familial issues (4 C’s, lots of B’s). However, I’ve consistently taken every AP class offered to me: AP World (Sophomore year-recieved a B and a 4), AP Psychology (Junior year-A), AP American History (Junior year-A), and AP Language and Composition (Junior year-A). I’ve also been enrolled in all honors classes (except Spanish because Florida doesn’t offer honors foreign language classes) and I’ll be in 3 AP classes next year. I’m just wondering if my upward trend will help negate my somewhat lower GPA.</p>
<p>its got nothing to do with trends per se. they leave a field for you to explain extra info you would like admissions to take into consideration that is not evident in scores, your essay, or the other info they give you.
i cant say how much impact that will have, but there’s definitely an opportunity to explain yourself.</p>