Why did URI (safety) reject me?

Applying to College
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<p>I got into my reach schools. URI was my last backup…</p>

<p>Avg accepted SAT scores range from 1300s-1600s, and the kids who got in at my school haven’t done that well academically.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, here’s my info</p>

<p>SAT: 1960
2 AP classes (one AP score of 4, the other 5), 3 honors classes
Weighted GPA: 3.9</p>

<p>Straight As senior year, mostly Bs junior, and a mix of As w/ a few B+s sophomore year. Freshman year…Cs, but my school doesn’t incorporate 9th grade into the GPA. I had two good letters of recommendation and I did a LOT of extracurriculars and community service.</p>

<p>Was it just a space issue? I don’t live in RI.</p>

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<p>Unless URI posts the grades and exam scores that guarantee admission for OOS students right on its website, and you have grades and scores that are at least that good, then you can’t count it as a real safety. Pretty safe maybe if a lot of kids from your school with grades and scores like yours have been accepted over the years, but not a safety. Whenever there is a step that allows human beings to make Yes-No decisions, the possibility remains that what looks like a good bet on paper turns out to be wrong. Public universities often have different admissions standards for in-state and out-of-state. So yes, it could be that your failure was that you weren’t a state resident.</p>

<p>But to be perfectly honest, if you got into other places that you like better (and who would expend the energy to apply to a “reach” if they didn’t like it) there isn’t any reason to worry about URI. Kick it to the curb and move on.</p>

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<p>It sounds like a clerical error. Somebody didn’t get something. </p>

<p>It’s worth a phone call. That should have been a safety by a mile.</p>

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<p>

Your school may not but URI may. Your 3.9 Weighted GPA would be much lower unweighted and including the freshman year grades. You also needed to meet certain subject requirements:
4 in English
3 in algebra and plane geometry
2 in a physical or natural science
2 in history or social science
2 in the same foreign language*</p>

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<p>Still, people get into URI with GPAs in the 2.5 range. I think there is something clerical going on.</p>

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<p>My son got into URI for engineering with a 3.3 and SAT 1980.</p>

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<p>If you got into your reach schools, why do you care? A lot of people spend too much time trying to make sense of these things when in reality it really doesn’t matter :)</p>

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<p>Could be that you’re out of state.</p>