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Fair enough, but your logic/stats still failed. My apologies.</p>
<p>I have no idea how different places calculate their average GPA. As you quoted, in the admissions process
Although, I would guess that most 3rd party stats are the weighted version in order to increase how hard it looks to get into colleges (but that still leaves out the aforementioned variables that are hard to control for and greatly influence an application).</p>
<p>I would guess that many of the people who were admitted with less than a 3.5 were those who had good AP and SAT scores (like you), so you still stand a chance! Good luck!</p>