<p>i know im gonna get a lot of hate for this, so im gonna be reallllll specific with my question. I have a lot of extra curriculars, state champion in debate, in the top 10 nationally this takes at least 10-15 hours/week for prep and a 12 hour tournament most saturdays. I do a lot of volunteer work as well. I’m also part of the fed challenge team which is another 4-5 hours a week. BASICALLY, I HAVE A LOT OF EXTRA CURRICULARS AND I EXPECT MY GPA TO BE MY ONLY WEAKNESS. for reference, i have a 34 on the act and 2300 on sat.</p>
<p>I have around a 3.8/4.3 gpa taking 6 ap courses (calc BC, english, physics b, latin, macro, us history). i have all A to A- except an A+ in macro and a B+ in latin vergil. is this too low. also, my sophomore and frehsman year grades were all A’s and A-'s. I go to an extreeemely competitive high school that sends around 20 kids to ivies every year, and where kids are pulling A+'s in a lot of their classes. How bad would this look in context of my extra curriculars and given that i have a B+ in ap latin vergil.</p>
<p>Well, your gpa will hurt you if you stroke out over it. For purposes of admissions at UChicago, your GPA and SATs/ACT are fine.</p>
<p>You will probably want to complete your SAT II’s this spring if you can. This will put you in a position where you can concentrate on school visits and applications in the fall. I hope that you will apply early so that you will have early acceptances and can RELAX a little!</p>
<p>yeah you’re pretty much doomed you should have taken 12 ap’s or maybe even 14 </p>
<p>plus the 2300 is pretty low, everybody in my dorm got at least a 2500 (broke the machine). a community/vocational college would probably take you though, i hear northwestern is pretty decent.</p>
<p>jack -
maybe that’s the next CB scandel - kid gets a 2500!</p>
<p>goankit -
good on the SAT II’s - try to nail latin or us history while it is fresh in your mind - be sure to take the College Board Real SAT II’s on those subjects 4-6 weeks out so if you need to review a section you can. </p>
<p>It is very important to remember that no one has a perfect application. A B+ in latin is a pretty minor wart. What you do have going for you is a personality and a lot of energy. What you need is a little more confidence to let this shine in your applications. You are you … more than just a collection of numbers. IMO, you sound like a great kid. I think that at least some admissions officers will agree with me!</p>
<p>jack, i’m totally not that kinda kid. im probably the most relaxed kid in all my classes. my favorite thing to do is laugh at the kids in my school who cry their eyes out over an A- (unfortunately there are a lot). in fact the lack of these kids at uchicago is what is making me gun so hard for this school.</p>
<p>im just wondering whats an combortably admittable gpa for someone who’s got a lot of extracurriculars but is attending a top notch high school and isnt an urm. </p>
<p>im only posting this because my guidance counselour basically said that my B+ in latin and lack of A+'s and general prevelance of A-'s was pretty much a death sentence at any top 10 school.</p>
<p>I don’t think anything is a “death sentence” on a Chicago application, except maybe not writing the essays. Plenty of people who didn’t get an A in every class get admitted.</p>
<p>When a couple of B+'s hopped on my transcript, my guidance counselor said the same thing. If you do go to a school where people cry over A-'s, (I went to one too), he or she probably has experience with students who have great transcripts and great SATs threatening the guidance office for false advertising when they don’t get in to their dream school, so he or she is probably just trying to do a “reality check.”</p>
<p>If it helps you, I also was quite involved in my extracurriculars, I too went to a top high school, I took the hardest courses I could take and I did decently well but not spectacularly compared to some of my classmates. My SATs, too, were nothing stellar but were in the midrange.</p>
<p>Many students and I made our solid transcripts come to life through our essays. I know I devoted a lot of time to that essay, not because I wanted in so badly but because I knew that through writing it I was discovering more about myself.</p>