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What Do Colleges Consider? Grades

Freshmen grades 1/3 GPA

Upward Trend

Academic Honors Diploma

IU – “May be required by 2013”

Purdue – “Work toward it”

What Do Colleges Consider? Course Selection

Honors & AP’s Rigor with Reality Select Schools

Extra Curricular Activities Private Schools Scholarships

Develop Your Talent Develop your skill

Get awards & honors

Positions of leadership

Use for good of others

Extensive resume

Standardized Tests: SAT

Perfect Score: 2400 Three Parts

ACT Perfect Score 36

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In-State Tuition and Fees Room & Board Books & Supplies Estimated Personal Expenses Transportation Expenses

Must have Core 40 A’s and B’s

IU does not want C’s;

what course, when received Academic courses more

important Upward Trend or Steady

IU Grades

Average GPA admit

3.6Carmel minimum GPA

3.0 Weighted Past History

IU Grades

SAT Increased emphasis

Carmel minimum: 1050 - 1060Critical Reading: 520-530

Math: 520-530

IUStandardized Tests

IU Kelley School of Business Admitted as Freshman

1270 SAT or 29 ACT, 3.6 GPA

Admitted as Sophomore 3.0 College GPA Take 3 required courses

IUFinances $19,300 Automatic Scholarships (Renewable)

$2,000 1160 SAT and 3.6 GPA $5,000 1260 SAT and 3.7 GPA $9,000 1310 SAT and 3.8 GPA

Cumulative GPA

Carmel minimum GPA 3.0

Past History

Carmel minimum SAT

1000-1050 (critical reading + math)

Purdue Grades & Standardized Tests

Purdue Colleges

More Difficult: Management Pre-Pharmacy Nursing Engineering

Less Difficult: Science Liberal Arts Education Undergraduate

Studies Program

Purdue Programs School of Management School of Technology School of Engineering Hospitality and Tourism Apparel & Design Technology Pharmacy

Purdue Finances

$18,700 Automatic Scholarships

$5,000 1850-1990 SAT and 3.8 GPA $8,000 2000 SAT and 3.8 GPA

Recalculated GPA, core subjects,

All 3 SAT sections

Ball State

$18,580Carmel minimum

GPA 2.7SAT 1000 (2 parts)

Ball State Programs Telecommunications #8 Education Architecture Landscape Architecture #11 Entrepreneurship #5

IUPUI

$13,600 with Housing $10,460 without Housing

Carmel minimum GPA 2.5 SAT 900 (2 parts)

Indiana State

$18,300 Carmel minimum

GPA 2.3

Ivy Tech Community College 2 Year Degree for $6000

Transfer

University of Southern Indiana $16,340

2.5 GPA or 2.0 in Core Classes

CHS 40/41

DePauw University

$42,225 Best Value (Consumers Digest)

CHS 24/34 accepted

CHS Minimum 3.2 GPA

SAT 1690 and Up

Hanover $35,150 Best Deal

3.6 ,1200 SAT top scholarships

CHS 9/14 Accepted, 3.1, 1550 SAT

If have Academic Honors will meet 100% of

Demonstrated Need (FAFSA)

Butler University $40,500

CHS Minimum 3.0

SAT 1570

Notre Dame

$51,095 13/30 Accepted Carmel GPA 4.0 Carmel SAT: 2000 Meets 100% Demonstrated Need

Miami University $41,000

CHS Minimum 3.0 GPA

1570 SAT

Out Of State Colleges University of Kentucky

2.5 GPA $24,700 In State Tuition

Louisville 3.0 Eastern Kentucky 2.0 Eastern Michigan 3.0 Grand Valley State 3.5

Surrounding States Tougher for Acceptance

University of Michigan University of

Wisconsin Ohio State University of Illinois

Easier Acceptance University of Kentucky

—good price

Select School Stats Boston University 4.3

Duke 4.1 Emory 3.8 Northwestern 3.9 Washington U. 4.1

Select School Stats Yale 4.1

3/19 Accepted Harvard 4.4

2/17 Accepted Princeton 4.4

2/14 Accepted

Select Colleges Georgetown 2/5 Univ of Michigan

8/18 Case Western

Reserve 5/5 Columbia 2/12 Rice 5/9 Univ of Chicago 4/15 Univ of Illinois 7/7

Cornell 2/12 Vanderbilt 4/19 New York 5/16 Rose-Hulman 11/16 Stanford 3/12 Johns Hopkins 3/10

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