Do I Have A Chance Of Admission After Poor Frosh and Soph Grades and Upward Trend In Rigor?

[CollegeFreak9488]

Do I at least have a chance of getting into Purdue main campus?

@austinmshauri

A 2.5 UW GPA will make you eligible for schools whose mid-50% GPA range for accepted students includes those with a 2.5 UW GPA. There is no exception for other things. Colleges won’t add a point to your UW GPA if you take dual enrollment courses, they won’t add one if you get a high ACT score, and they won’t add one if you take rigorous high school courses. Those things are expected by the level of colleges you’re talking about. If they did add points to UW GPAs that would be creating a weighted GPA for each applicant. Why would they go to the trouble of doing that when they strip weighted GPAs so they can compare the UW ones?

You’ve given no indication here about why your UW GPA is low. If it’s not due to special circumstances (health, major family financial issues, etc), your record will stand as it is. My advice to you is to make sure you have enough credits in all the core classes (math, English, science, foreign language, and history), and do as well as you can in them. If I were an adcom, I’d question any class that didn’t address a deficiency in the core. Computer science, environmental science, and sports management seem like poor choices when you have a C in English, a D in chemistry, and a C in algebra.

Do the best you can then find colleges that are a match for your unweighted stats. It’s fine to add a couple reaches, but you need to find your safeties and matches first.