OOS chances? low gpa, decent sat

samir634
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:45:46 +0000

Just submitted my app, I chose an undeclared major and stated only pre-health sciences as a major, my stats are definitely not amazing, but I am wondering if with my SAT and decent essays can I get in?

Stats

OOS-VA
Asian (East Indian)
Public High School, Magnet Program
Class rank is also weak, 203 of 538 or 37th percentile
GPA: 3.32 W, 3.11 UW my school does not weigh any honors classes, only AP are weighted and a few magnet courses. They do this by adding a number directly onto the GPA depending on the grade you recieved in the class with A adding .0488 to a GPA and B adding .0366 and C adding .0244

Pre-HS GPA 3.5
Freshman GPA 3.3
Sophmore GPA 2.7 (ouch)
Junior GPA 3.1

yeah trend is not that good, but courseload gets better and better each year

SAT: 1970 640 M 640 R 690 W (10 Essay)
ACT: 28 (26 English 9 essay, 27 Math, 28 Reading, 31 Science)

I submitted both scores since they are fairly equivalent and have their strengths and weaknesses in each and UW asks for both scores

Taken 5 AP Classes so far, 4 more senior year, rest of courseload is honors/magnet unless that option was not available (in the cases of world history I, spanish I-IV, and pe)

AP Tests
Psychology 5 (junior)
US History 4 (junior)
European History 3 (sophmore)

Also took AP Calc AB and AP Spanish Lang test as a junior, did not score too well in test



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Senior course load + first quarter grade:
AP Comp Sci A-
AP Environmental A-
AP Government A-
AP Statistics B-
Magnet Anatomy and Physiology A (weighted)
Honors English 12 B

factoring this in does raise my GPA to about 3.2 UW and 3.67 W

ECs

They only take 5 main ECs, I chose 3 that I felt I could write more indetail about each for their journal entry
Volunteering as an educator at local aquarium
Mentoring with a psychiatrist at a psychiatric ward
Guitar lessons + show + band participation

Essays are about cultural experiences + playing in a band, I feel like they came out pretty well.

No space given to list awards so no point in saying them

Suggestions? Comments?