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Advice: What are my chances at these colleges?

I'm applying to University of Indianapolis, Ball State University, Purdue University, Indiana University, Michigan State University, and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill I have a 2.86 GPA and got a 1500 on the SAT and im taking the ACT in September and the SAT again in October I hope to bring my GPA up to 3.1 3.2 by the end of my first semester of my Senior year. I go to a college prepatory Catholic High School in Indiana and i'm fairly involved. I play baseball and have played football and basketball. Community service is a requirement at my school and ive been involved with helping at baseball clinics and doin various service activities for my school over my high school career. I am helping coaching a fall baseball team. I am also in a Pro-Life group and hold a part-time job.

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1. *Is Catholic* That is a fairly substantial jump from 2.86 to 3.1 in only one semester. Your scores are low, both GPA and SAT. They are on the low end of average college entrance scores. Work very hard to graduate High School with at least a 3.0 especially a 3.0 by the time you apply for the colleges. Combined ACT score, you really want to be looking for at least a 24. Your involvement in activities beyond school is commendable and these will help you get in. It is also good that you have a part-time job as the likely hood of you getting a scholarship/grant to help is low. BUT STILL DO APPLY FOR THEM!!! Because your grades are not strong, my suggestion to you is that you apply early, make multiple visits to the campus that you want to go to, talk to, call, and esquire about things at the universities, especially with people in the academic departments. Be very interested with the school and what you want to learn from them. What you want to be doing is to get your name out there and from being just another application. Consider this. If you are worried about your grades, at the school that you really want to go to, find the undergraduate advisor for the program that you would study. Talk with the person, ask questions such as what should I be studying during this year of HS to make going to your university better? When you take a tour of the university, have a private meeting setup with the advisor, talk with them about stuff, make a good impression, and then say you really want to go but are worried about your grades and ask them if there is anything that they can do. (NOTE: if you do this make sure your application for the university is already turned in so that if the advisor goes to check on things in the Admissions office your name is on file.) Mark this on your calendar. January 1st I want you to do the FAFSA and get the numbers to the schools that you have applied to. It gets your name on another data base at the university. Anyway your activities are very strong and they will help. Just make sure to be interested in the university and not simply just submit a form and hope, get your name known.