<p>Recent Updates:</p>
<p>*Have become Asst. Director of Drama Team
*Have become Stage Manager of Drama Team
*Have Become Tech. Director of Drama Team
*Taking the CNA (Certified Nursing asst.) Test next month.
*Founder & Involved in Senior-Sophmore, Junior-Freshmen Mentoring program
*Recently Completed 30 Hours of community Service
*G.P.A this year has gone up to 3.2 (Still in progress!) </p>
<p>Foot-Notes: OMG! So stressed out, but building my resume never felt so good.</p>
<p>Shoot For The Stars Baby!!!</p>
<p>Possible, but unlikely</p>
<p>However, if you manage to raise the GPA enough…
(is that unweighted GPA)
assuming it is:</p>
<p>UPenn - Reach
University of Wash. - Reach
Cal-Tech - High Reach
Georgia-Tech - Match/Slight Reach
Princeton - High Reach
Emory - Slight Reach
John Hopkins Uni. - Reach
Duke - Slight Reach
Stanford - High Reach
NYU - Slight Reach
Vanderbilt - Match</p>
<p>Wow… you mustve been very serious lately, since you had absolutely no experience in Drama at all, yet you managed to become directors for 3 areas. That is very impressive. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, you really messed up in the past, and 3 honors classes really don’t matter much. You might get in some of the schools, but there’s a really low chance for the ivies.</p>
<p>I don’t see how Vanderbilt can be a match with a 2.7-3.0 GPA, even with a 32 ACT.</p>
<p>Actually, I think you have pretty good chances. My reasoning?
Even 1% of the big 3 ivies have ppl with GPA 2.5 or lower, who are mostly rich kids who donate like a building.
But considering that (presumably) you got those stellar PSAT and ACT scores without studying, college deans might actually be interested in you, if you explain your late academic boom in your essay.
I think you even have better chances than most in CC (Btw, I read an article about a african american student living in ABJECT poverty who got a 1220 on the SAT without ever studying and was accepted at Amherst with full scholarship due to the adversities and his genuine genius for academics.)</p>
<p>Dont listen to discouragers. Just make sure your scores in Junior year are STELLAR and write a very good essay, and I think about half of those colleges might accept/waitlist you.</p>
<p>The 3% are amazing athletes and millionaires.
Kowloon, you have to think realistically. a 2.7, taking only honors classes, not really challenging yourself, pretty much no extracurriculars…To be honest, you’re better off just saving the money. No real hook other than growing up with a single parent. However, this doesn’t mean you will not get accepted into a college. I think you should just aim a little lower. One option could be Boston University (CGS) Slim chance, but there is still a chance!</p>
<p>The OP needs to look at Top 50 schools as his reaches/high matches, not the Ivies.</p>
<p>Med School is dependent on GPA and MCAT scores. So, going to someplace where getting a high GPA is easy would be a positive.</p>
<p>And with a GPA around a 3.0 - your shot is very low.</p>
<p>To put it into perspective - I have a 3.7, a 34 ACT, SAT II’s(as those are necessary for many of those schools) of 780, 760, and 740, Football, Lacrosse, Co-Captain Quiz Bowl, NHS Vice President, and National Merit Semifinalist. Princeton and CalTech would be large reaches for me. A 32 ACT and a 227 PSAT are excellent, but MAYBE average at many of those schools.</p>
<p>i would suggest you look at schools more in your range and prove in your first year or so of college that you are very serious about your work and then look to transfer to your ideal school… it sucks but schools like princeton get a million applicants with 2400 sats, and 4.0 gpas and they turn many away too… it just seems really unlikely for them to take a 2.7… they are going to need more than 1 semester to see that you are really putting forth your best efforts</p>
<p>i may have misread, are you a junior? if you are then if you work really hard all this year i think you could really pull it up… good luck to you!</p>