How will my GPA affect my chances??

Applying to College
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<p>Hi Guys,</p>

<p>I’m not doing a chance me or anything, but basically, I just wanted some feedback on my GPA. I go to a competitive public high school in New Jersey, where over 50% of the school is Asian (including me, lol). Freshmen year I got a 3.56 (unweighted- 3 B’s) and 4.0 (weighted) GPA. This year (sophomore year) I’m probably getting the same unweighted GPA ( 3 Bs! =[) , not sure about the weighted, although I’m taking all honors courses that I can. I have good extracurriculars with varsity sports, clubs, and volunteering. I’m pretty science oriented which shows since I took chem last summer in order to take physics this year, and I’m taking AP Bio and Human Anatomy, and I plan to try and see if I can shadow a doctor and do more bio-related stuff. Basically, I wanna know how my GPA will affect my chances at schools like PLME Brown, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Emory, and Vanderbilt if I get good SAT scores</p>

<p>Right now PLME, Brown, and JHU are my top choices!</p>

<p>Thanks for the feedback :)</p>

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<p>no reason to abandon your list, but if those B’s keep happening in jr year, your GPA and geography would make a lot of those a reach. For a 3.5-ish NJ kid with good not perfect SAT’s, you’d probably have good chances, and a good education and good time in the Patriot League : Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell jump to mind</p>

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<p>Try to avoid Asian ECs. The Ivys will be hard be the others you will be competetive in.</p>

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<p>Hate to break it to you, but unless you up your GPA to a 3.8 or something, you’re going to have a tough time with PLME, Brown, JHU. GPA is the most important, followed by SAT, ECs, essays, recs, interview, though there are exceptions to each.</p>