Probably business. Definitely not applying as an engineer or science major. What’s your take on that?
If you have six classes, a free period is fine. Not if it means taking 3 or 4 classes only.
Personally I think late arrival senior year s very healthy.
I think taking the early release is fine. At this point trying to take classes that add work or take away from studying won’t help your GPA. I assume you are leaving school early- will you get a job? Do you participate in after school activities? It would be a pain to have to return later.
As far as NCSU- I’m glad to hear you don’t want engineering- I’m not sure your GPA and SAT are competitive enough. NCSU also seems to be numbers driven- I would consider it a reach. You have very nice list of schools. Consider adding ECU- biggest business school in NC, lots of connections and internships. Good luck!
I’m getting a job this summer but I’m not sure if I’ll keep it throughout the year. I participate in DECA and I’m an ICC officer. I really don’t like ECU, the environment isn’t for me. It’s definitely a huge party type school and I’m not looking for that. As far as NCSU goes, if I get my SAT score up to a 1350 and don’t apply for science or engineering, do I have a shot?
You do have a shot with a 1350. Look into UNCC for business.
What’s your current schedule?
What’s your budget?
I really don’t want to go to UNCC because it is too close to my house… My current schedule is:
Marketing
Honors Biomed
Honors American History I
Honors Chemistry I
Honors Discrete Math
Principles of Business and Finance
AP English Language and Composition
I didn’t sign up for Marketing or Business, I signed up for AP Macroeconomics but didn’t get it since my school is so big… there are nearly 800 people in my grade alone. The only in state school I really want to go to is NC State or maybe UNCW if I really had to.
My GPA is on a 5 scale… this is the first year NC made this change… really my weighted GPA should be a 4.27 if we still had the 6 scale. Also I’m an asian male (indian) if that helps with anything.
Have you completed precalculus? calculus? Foreign Language 3 or 4?
I haven’t done pre calc or calc… I’m currently in Honors Spanish III if that helps
Then you MUST take precalculus instead of discrete math if you intend to study business (it’s a basic pre reqs and most successful applicants will have taken calculus too although that’s not mandatory. Precalculus is.)
What majors do not require Pre-Calculus?
most non-stem majors do not require pre-calculus, except for business as posted above and econ.
on the point of the free periods, high schools in the bay area, I think maybe most of CA will not recommend you take (maybe not even allow) a seventh period class if you’re participating in a sport as you would miss that class during the season the sport is played. As someone mentioned, the key is how classes are represented in the transcript.
Arts, humanities (English, History, foreign language, philosophy…), some social sciences (sociology, psychology…) which require statistics.
Some universities require precalculus regardless of major applied to.
Most universities have a math placement test and a math requirement for graduation too. It can often be fulfilled with statistics and sometimes a “athlete for citizenship” class.
Every single college (and I know of no exceptions), on their Common Data Set, rates “Rigor of Secondary School Record” as “VERY IMPORTANT”. Take from that what you will.
- "math for citizenship"... not sure what autocorrect did with "athlete"!!! o_o You need a minimum of 5 academic classes per year (Math, English, Social Science/history, science, foreign language) and one more class if possible. After that you're good when it comes to rigor. However not having precalculus may bar you from applying to certain colleges and certain majors. Did you get a C in Algebra2? Could you take precalculus regular or statistics/AP Stats instead of Discrete Math? What are you thinking of majoring in?
3.33 UW GPA is low for most flagship state U. You had PLTW Engr but don’t see AP cal and other AP sci. you stated PTLW counted as AP, by whom? you school or college AO? you have AP english language but not English Lit, instead you go back to English IV (honor), any particular reason? I know this is no OP 's question, but the AP courses seem random.
AP lit is for Humanities majors and students who love to read. Students aren’t expected to take an all-ap curriculum, they must make strategic choices.
Not taking precalculus is a bigger deal.
PLTW Engr counts as an AP GPA wise… it counts as 5.0 for the weighted GPA if you get an A. It is weighted as an AP class is all I’m saying.
^ at some high schools, not all.
And highly selective colleges don’t use weighted GPA, they use rigor on the one hand, and unweighted GPA on the other hand.
I just don’t understand how my unweighted GPA is that bad… I mean I screwed up in one or two classes but I didn’t think I was in that much trouble
Is there anything I can do to make up for my low unweighted GPA… I really want to get into NC State or Clemson, my SAT score right now is a 1270 but I took it yesterday and thought it was a lot better. I think I’ll have at least a 1350 by the time I take it in August.