I only have a 3.7 cumulative GPA, I didn't do any extra curricular activites besides the Spanish Club, and my SAT scores are only a little above average.
Specially speaking about colleges like Cal Berkeley, UCSF, USF, and Standford.
2007-02-04 14:40:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
You can absolutely get into UCSF and USF with that GPA. If you're not doing engineering, I'd say you could even get into Berkeley easy. Stanford will be a little upset if you spell their name wrong, but I knew someone in high school who got into Yale with like a 3.5 and no extra-curriculars. So it happens. Get some good letters of recommendation. Sounds like you're in Cali. Talk to Maria Shriver or something. ;-) You'll be fine, I promise.
2007-02-04 14:47:15 · answer #1 · answered by ufralphie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you write some good, interesting essays. Big-name schools like Berkeley and Stanford are kind of crap shoots nowadays. You'll be competing with people with as good or better GPAs, better SATs, or more extracurricular activities. You may very well wow them with your essays and your sparkling wit during the interview. Or you may hit the year when the child of every person who ever donated six figures to that school decides to enroll.
It's not enough anymore at those kinds of schools to have good grades. You have to catch their interest in another way, because they have so many people applying. So unless Daddy gave Stanford a new building or you spent a year in Africa amongst the lepers (and even then), do your best with your essays- don't write something you think they want to read, because they've already read several hundred of the same one this year. Make it personal, and make everyone you know read it, but don't pay too much attention to their advice. Also, look at schools off the beaten path. They're just as good as the others, in some cases better, and you won't have to whack anyone off to get in.
2007-02-05 01:34:02 · answer #2 · answered by random6x7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your gpa doens't look bad, but if the school is competetive, you need to stand out somehow and you didn't make the effort. I would definitely try, but also apply to some less competetive schools. Then your first 2 years at that school, you can get involved and get good grades and then try for the better university. Your first 2 years in college are a repeat of high school anyway, so it's pointless to pay big money to go to the kind of school you're looking at.
2007-02-05 03:36:22 · answer #3 · answered by IKB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only reason that you asked this question is so that we tell you that you gpa is very good and that you have a high chance of making it to those colleges. Well guess what? youre not getting that from me.
2007-02-04 22:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say you won't get into stanford with a 3.7 and no extracurriculars, and probably not those other schools. a 3.7 isnt that great and that is a good school.
2007-02-04 22:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋