<p>My unweighted GPA is 3.3 and weighted is 4.1. My SAT is 1700. I’m going to take it again so hopefully it increases. The strong side of my application process is my extracurricular. I’m the president of 1 club with significant accomplishments, vp of another, helped manage a congressional campaign, volunteered for the Obama campaign, a local mayoral campaign, and countless other extracurricular within schools including multiple officer positions. My dream schools are Georgetown, Harvard, and Yale. Unfortunately, with my GPA and average-high scores, I cant go there. However, no matter what undergraduate school I attend, I wanna go to Harvard Graduate school for Public Policy and thus will have a great undergraduate school record. Question is, should I apply to those big schools anyways for undergrad or go to a local state school, kick butt, and then transfer after 2 years to a great undergraduate like those big schools, and continue to my Harvard graduate school or just go to the local state school for a whole 4 years and then Harvard graduate (though I really don’t wanna do that). I strongly want a great educational record with brand name schools. Please give me honest feedback! Thank you all!</p>
<p>Apply to both big schools and local schools, see where you get in, and decide. Sometimes students with lower GPAs and test scores still get accepted into ivy league schools!</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I’m applying to Georgetown right now! :)</p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>Are you a Senior? If you are then you have no chance at Ivy League, sorry, but I doubt anyone in HYP had 1700. Apply to your public flagship, and do great, would be what I would do in that situation. If you aren’t a senior study hard for the SAT and get 2000+ and you can get into a much better school (not HYP, but still really good schools). Harvard graduate school is still a reach for anyone, don’t get set on it. A lot of people still change their minds on what they want to do numerous times in college. Good luck!</p>
<p>3.3 and 1,700 makes Gtown, etc. nigh on impossible. Average GPAs for top schools are 3.7+ with SATs usually being a minimum of 2,000, usually higher.</p>