was it worth it to apply? merit scholarhips?

Johnson181
Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:53:46 +0000

Hopefully - While I hate to be this person, but I worry you’re falsely inflating your own chances. If you’re telling yourself that a 3.85 is “a good academic fit for WashU” I worry that you are going to be terribly surprised and disappointed come March.

Your gpa (no matter the upward trend) plus your low SAT means you are facing very tough odds to get in. There are literally thousands of applicants with 2200+ and 3.9 (cumulative) uw gpa’s. And I’d wager they’re much better academic fits.

When schools like WashU/Duke/wherever talk about “liking” upward trends, they’re typically not talking about <3.0 to 3.8. They’re talking 3.7 to 3.9.

The only person I know who got into WashU with a ‘poor’ gpa (I think she said it was a 2.9?) had unbelievably awesome ACT scores and an IB diploma. Plus, she had a hook that made the admissions committee look twice (don’t want to go into personal details here).

I hate to sound so harsh, but unless you have something unbelievably special about you (like she did), you are not going to be admitted.