The "I Got in without a 3.7+ GPA" club

Final results since the application process is over!!

Gpa: 3.12 UW with strong upward trend
ACT: 31, 32 superscored

Major: ranged from linguistics to English to psychology

Acceptances:
UCR
UCSB
UCSC
CAL POLY SLO
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK
SDSU
CSULB
PITT
CSUF
CSUN
WILLAMETTE WITH MERIT
UIUC
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO

Rejections:
Northeastern(after deferral)
BU
ucla
Ucsd
UCD
UCI
Uw Seattle

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Stats: UW GPA: 3.33 W GPA: 4.40 SAT: 2070 Good EC’s

Schools:

Accepted:

Wake Forest (Attending)

Maryland College Park (OOS) (Scholars Program with a 20k Per Year Merit Scholarship)

University of Miami FL (Honors College with a 22k Per Year Merit Scholarship)

George Washington U (12k Per Year Merit Scholarship)

Waitlisted:

Boston U

Emory Oxford

Rejected:

Northwestern ED1

Vanderbilt ED2

UNC EA (OOS)

UVA (OOS)

Washu in St Louis

University of Michigan (OOS)

Are you a URM?

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@tylerperez12 - How does one get more than entire point added to their UW gpa?

Level 4 (3.2) NYU

Back when I was a senior in HS and didn’t understand that I couldn’t pay for college lmao!

wow this is kinda late, but my final results + where i’ll be going:

i will be attending nyu as a member of the presidential honors and scholars program (or maybe it was scholars and honors?)!

accepted: ohio state (merit + honors, instate), bu, northeastern (merit), umass amherst for cs (merit), and brandeis (merit)

waitlisted: georgetown, uchicago, uc berkeley (oos)

rejected: usc, columbia, harvard (lol), stanford (lmao), penn, northwestern, ucla, pomona, and uva

info stuff: level 5 (3.6 uw/4.1 w), 35 act, rigorous schedule, orm (asian/white), female (kinda) interested in stem (most majors i applied to were linguistics with second choice computer science).

Level 5 (3.6)
Accepted- Baylor U
CAP’D- UT Austin

Also will be attending Baylor this coming Fall

@rdng09 ya but I’m from Miami so everybody is is an URM here

My School is weird its +1 for Honors and +2 for AP

Attending UC Berkeley engineering with a 3.65 UW

holy moly i just got off berkeley’s waitlist??? i’m happy and confused and excited all at once idk how i’ll choose now

Level 4 - 3.2 GPA
ACT: 27

Got into:
USC
UCLA
Brandeis

Waitlist then accepted:
UIUC
UMASS
UC Berkely

Rejected:
Emory

Currently a freshman at USC.
Not gonna lie, I’m loaded as ****. My parents bring an average monthly income of $300K.
I didn’t get any money from any institution I applied to. I think I was accepted solely on the fact that I have loads of money. I wasn’t dumb or anything. I took challenging courses but money saved me the most I’m pretty sure.

What are your parents’ professions? Sorry this is off-topic, but that’s an amazing income haha. @bjhjor18

Level 5 (Just barely!)
3.5 GPA resoundingly rejected or tenderly waitlisted by every school but one :slight_smile:

Waitlist: Pomona
Reject: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UPenn, Brown

Some other things: Asian male, unconventional (read: risky, but not #BlackLivesMatter 100 times risky [-X), and the law of averages, since I opened my letter en route to the hospital. Car accident. One accident after the other, I suppose. But this is one mistake I’ll be thankful for.

@ivybae
Did you get into Columbia? Congrats!

My dream school is Dartmouth. I will have a 3.5 UW, 4.02 W GPA after this semester. You gave me a smidge of hope.

Level 5 [~3.6]
Transfer sophomore transfer student

Accepted: University of Michigan-- Ann Arbor, USF, USD, University of Washington
Rejected: Fosters school of business @ University of Washington (my WSA score was pretty poor but my gpa was a 3.9 (they only take into account certain courses when calculating this gpa) so I might try again in the future with some actually studying next time around)
Waitlisted: None
Waiting to hear back from: USC, NYU

Yes, I did. I think my essays definitely were able to explain why my GPA was less significant to my character as a whole, and what I wanted to do there.