For a low GPA student, how much will impact an excellent first sem. senior year have?

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<p>I’m sorry to disappoint you, and I mean that with the utmost sincerity, but there are many students in a similar situation with much higher stats.</p>

<p>I personally know many kids with medical issues and learning disabilities that were later diagnosed that ended up with great grades regardless.</p>

<p>Also, those kids with low stats getting into those schools ARE either hooked or at an extremely competitive shool where having anything above a 3.0 is considered top 10%.</p>

<p>Btw, I am a full jewish, part hispanic kid with multiple learning disabilities which were finally (after years of suspicion) only diagnosed and treated starting halfway through last school year. Yet I still managed a 3.99 UW GPA, a 4.8 weighted GPA, a 2330 SAT, and pretty competitive ECs. Yet I was flat out rejected from my top choice school, and I don’t expect to be accepted at schools like Dartmouth. So if they don’t take someone with your stats PLUS a near-perfect GPA, chances of them taking someone like that with a low GPA are not very high. In fact, it is almost certainly not going to happen.</p>

<p>People here aren’t being mean. You asked for opinions and put yourself out there with all your stats, yet when HONEST feedback came back, showing THE MOST LIKELY OUTCOME of this, you went on the defensive and got rude. We are merely trying to help you so you don’t get your hopes up unnecessarily, and so you can focus on schools that you are more likely to be admitted to. For all we know you might actually get into one of these schools, but the chances are still pretty darn slim. You need to be realistic here.</p>