High School GPA

[wareagle93]

No, you're correct. I was just saying that it's not impossible to be accepted into schools with low scores (whether it be on your part, or applying to a school with a challenging curriculum-like UT-Austin has).

[33girl]

Aren't pretty much all the big flagship state schools called "public ivies" now?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by wareagle93

No, you're correct. I was just saying that it's not impossible to be accepted into schools with low scores (whether it be on your part, or applying to a school with a challenging curriculum-like UT-Austin has).

Were you Top 10%? Texas is a bit of a different animal.

[wareagle93]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Were you Top 10%? Texas is a bit of a different animal.

No. I was top 20%. I am not from Texas, I went to a Private school with a very challenging curriculum that routinely sends off atleast 10 members of each graduating class to various ivy league schools.

I only played sports my freshman year, but had a long line of extracurricular activities, and I had strong marks (3.42GPA) and great comments from my teachers (extremely hard worker, goes above and beyond, etc.). Top that off with the fact that I was very blessed and fortunate enough to have had a phenomenal guidance counselor/academic adviser that wrote me a wonderful letter of recommendation.

To be honest, i was a bit surprised that I was admitted. But I was very fortunate and blessed to be.