<p>Hi everyone! I am a rising junior and I am very interested in Math and engineering. </p>
<p>My PSAT’s sophomore year I received 80M, 44W, and 46 CR(Fell Asleep in CR Section)
Predicted SAT Score: 2100, Going for 800M,700CR,600W
Math 2C SAT: 800 
Senior Year will take Physics SAT at earliest date possible for my ED school</p>
<p>Freshmen GPA: 2.4
Sophomore GPA: 2.6
Sadly these grades came out of lack of motivation but I am motivated to change this. I am aiming for a 3.4.
Junior Year Schedule:AP Calc AB,AP Stats,Computer Science,Junior English,American History, Intermediate Physics
Income: Under 40k</p>
<p>Hooks: Dual Citizenship with Peru and USA (Born in Peru), Mom never went to college in Peru and only finished high school. My dad only finished 6th grade because where he was from it was the norm. Although my dad is fluent in French because he worked in France for a few years. 114 on AMC-10 and got an award but didn’t qualify for AIME. Various kids in my school did though. Idk if it’s a hook but my parents can definitely not afford to send me to summer programs to put in my resume unlike most of my friends from school, and they can’t afford SAT Classes so I am just studying off the book.</p>
<p>Location: NYC, I attend a super competitive boarding school in New England, the worst school attended last year was ASU and she had a 2.1 GPA, easiest course load, and near expelled for grades.
My Senior Year Schedule (If it all goes well):
AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, AP Computer Science, Senior English, Organic Chem (HS Level), and some Architecture and Economic Electives.</p>
<p>I really don’t want to apply to any liberal arts school because well…I am not interested in anything of the humanities section. I want an East Coast or West Coast School. I fell in love with JHU but I doubt I should even apply.</p>
<p>Do you need financial aid?</p>
<p>Don’t bother with JHU - you aren’t remotely in range. Even with a 3.4, you aren’t in range.</p>
<p>Lastly, liberal arts schools aren’t just for students studying the humanities: LACs just don’t have graduate schools or (usually) pre-professional majors and tend to be small - less than 2400 students. They offer math, physics, computer science, etc…just like all the universities do. Only a few have engineering though, so that may rule them out for you.</p>
<p>If you want a LAC feel in a tech school, look at smaller [Association</a> of Independent Technological Universities: AITU](<a href=“http://www.theaitu.org%5DAssociation”>http://www.theaitu.org) schools. Right now, you have not shown the grades for admission as these schools look for strong students with very good Math SAT or ACT scores. On the plus side, you are taking a challenging course load. If you can get the grades and the test scores, you might be able to get into an engineering program.</p>
<p>Maybe RIT or GT </p>
<p>If you land NMS (In NY you’ll probably need a 215+), you have a great shot at georgia tech. </p>
<p>You stated that you want a 3.4 GPA junior year. Assuming you took an equal amount of credits every year, that means you will be applying with a 2.8 ED. Because of this low GPA, there is absolutely no reason to apply ED. You need to distance yourself as far as possible from your freshman and sophomore year grades, so including 1st semester senior grades is a must.</p>
<p>URM status and low family income will definitely help your chances, although your not guaranteed full aid from the schools I listed above.</p>
<p>If you can get an 800 on physics, get your projected SAT score, and get NMF, you should be set for some of the lower tier math/science schools. However, unless you ace the SAT (2400), applying to JHU is a waste of time.</p>
<p>The GPA needs to be taken with a grain of salt, because it is a competitive boarding school. What is your class rank? You should be focusing on schools of a similar caliber that students in the past with your GPA were admitted to. It’s silly to treat a 2.5 from a competitive boarding school the same way as a 2.5 from a generic public school. </p>
<p>Your parents not being able to afford fancy summer classes isn’t an excuse for sitting around all summer. If you want to do that, fine, but it’s not like you don’t have other opportunities for staying active - volunteer work, getting a job, etc. You live in NYC, there’s tons out there!</p>
<p>Screw what anybody else says - apply for JHU, dude. Your acceptance chances are very very slim, but you know what? The only way to be guaranteed rejection is to not apply at all. </p>
<p>Your GPA is very ugly, sorry, I’ll admit, but if you have a high class rank, then that will definitely mitigate the blow from your GPA. It’s pretty obvious to anyone with eyes that you are very strong in math. Get a perfect score on that SAT math and great scores on the other sections. I’d say if you got a perfect or near-perfect score on the SAT, get all A’s from here on out, and that plus your strong hook (Hispanic, first-gen, plus the whole born in Peru and father never went past 6th grade thing will look good if you play it as a pity card), then that will make you a semi-competitive applicant at a lot of schools. Again, GPA is very ugly and hard to bounce back from, but if you do these things, you will have more of a fighting chances at a lot of mid-competitive colleges. Hell, you might even make JHU although I wouldn’t put too many eggs in that basket.</p>
<p>That being said, I’d say the chances are again, very very low, so be sure to have some back-ups. Actually, probably a lot of them.</p>
<p>Alwaysleah I do community service in nyc :p, library and my elementary school I attended. Also my school doesn’t rank or weigh grades but I assume it’s pretty low. My worst grade was a C- once in Music but it’s only half credit so it wasn’t weighed much. Although I received B then B+ next two terms. My school never reports individual grades but my final grade. So my Music class will be reported as a “B-”. Oh and my freshmen gpa was a 2.45, couldn’t remember at the time of my original post and my sophomore gpa is exactly a 2.67 (B- at my school)</p>