Competitive with 3.86 Weighted GPA?

sushifureak
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:16:01 +0000

honestly, a 3.86 WEIGHTED is not really competitive, esp for Stanford, UPenn, etc. Boston U, Rice, and Vandy should NOT be safeties, not with his WEIGHTED gpa and SAT score. However, his class ranking is really good, which is honestly a bit surprising, esp with a 3.86W. Most of the schools you’re looking into are around at LEAST 4.2W gpa, and that might be even stretching it a bit.
Also, 1840 is hardly enough for these schools; you need at least 2100 to be around the average applicant. Try to retake this during the summer.

I’m assuming you live in Alabama. I dont really know much about the colleges in Alabama, but I’m sure there are many good ones you can consider for reaches/safeties.

Sorry if I sounded too harsh. Good luck, though!