describe my chances !!

Poeme
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:11:24 +0000

One of my biggest problems with these chance threads if that the fact that people give each other opinions without any specific knowledge about the school they are coming from. High schools really vary a lot in terms of GPA and course offerings. Stewta4, you say that you probably need at least a 3.9 GPA for an ivy, and while that is probably true for many high schools there are many exceptions. To be in the top 10% of my high school class, one only needed to have around a 3.5 if they had taken the most rigorous schedule. This was because As were given pretty sparingly. I was once in an English class that had only 4 people out of the 50 kids the teacher taught receive a solid A. So when applying to college my classmates were typically very stressed out because their GPAs were usually significantly lower than GPAs for other top students at other high schools. However my high school did and always does very well in college admissions which shows that GPA is looked at in the context of your individual high school.