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palmab03 said:
Did you go to like super rich private school?
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nah, I went to public school, but there were a ton of go-getters who took tons of AP classes. An A in an AP or IB class was worth 6 GPA points out of 4, so there were some pretty whacky GPAs. I think the valedictorian was over 5.0. My GPA was over a 4.0.

What got me into Wake was a good SAT score and the fact that both my parents went to Wake. I think Wake is about as legacy-heavy as any school.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
nah, I went to public school, but there were a ton of go-getters who took tons of AP classes. An A in an AP or IB class was worth 6 GPA points out of 4, so there were some pretty whacky GPAs. I think the valedictorian was over 5.0. My GPA was over a 4.0.

What got me into Wake was a good SAT score and the fact that both my parents went to Wake. I think Wake is about as legacy-heavy as any school.
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I went to high school in an area that hadn't yet cottoned on to the more-than-4.0 GPA trend. When I got to undergrad, I was blown away how everyone seemed to have a high 3.something. But then I started hearing people say 4.1, 4.2, etc. At first, I thought it was jokes. Then I just felt really fucking ripped off.
 
I think pretty much the only reason I got in was legacy, too, and the fact that some people still remembered my mom from when she worked there. Geography, too (only one of two from Arizona my year, I think). I really made the most of it!
 
El Chupacabra said:
I think pretty much the only reason I got in was legacy, too, and the fact that some people still remembered my mom from when she worked there. Geography, too (only one of two from Arizona my year, I think). I really made the most of it!
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Wouldn't have it any other way.

Kids getting in now have fucking cured cancer and shit.
 
I was in an IB program and some of our courses were also combined with AP (so you took both exams and got credit for both) so I had one of those wacky GPAs. Our valedictorian and salutatorian both had over 6.0s. Think mine was over 5.0. I slacked off a lot my jr. year but then got straight As sr. year so I don't know if I graduated in top 10% of my class or not, but probably so since our class in general was pretty big.
 
First day of classes and it's a zoo here. Vasco Evtimov is hanging out at our desk on his phone trying to sort out a problem. Great accent.
 
got into wake despite literally failing AP Calc, a few Cs

no Wake lineage

my entrance essay was defs about adversity in the face of my mom's death, so I imagine that got flagged

had a p good entrance interview too
 
man, i'm fairly certain i was in the top 10% of a 325 person class, maybe 15%. i got a 1300 on the SATs. my extra curriculars were just varsity golf (4 letters !) and a school chamber singer group. did wake single-choice. first gen college student. wrote a garbage essay (IMO), no interview.

i got to wake and had the profound realization i was now one of the not-smart kids
 
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I knew my class rank at the beginning of sr year because it was on the transcript they gave us when we were starting college applications. Don’t remember what it was, or what my GPA was. I was probably fortunate from a class rank perspective that my school didn’t have a ton of available APs at the time so my rank didn’t get buried by gunners who’d otherwise stock up on full class loads of APs.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
man, i'm fairly certain i was in the top 10% of a 325 person class, maybe 15%. i got a 1300 on the SATs. my extra curriculars were just varsity golf (4 letters !) and a school chamber singer group. did wake single-choice. wrote a garbage essay (IMO), no interview.

i got to wake and had the profound realization i was now one of the not-smart kids
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“What is your academic passion?” FFS
 
I think I was maybe top 50% of my class. Never had a single trimester on honor role. 1420 SAT. Dad went to Wake (and served on some minor alumni board thing).

Dad got me in for sure.
 
Didn't expect there to be so many dummies. But I def went from Valedictorian Soph year to all B's and C's Jr. year as I commenced operation slacking, but even then still finished 10th outta 200 or so.
 
Technically, as far as I remember, GPA can't be above 4.0 on the normal scale. Anything above that was called, at least in my day, a QPA -- a quality point average -- which determined quality points per credit hour rather than a grade point average.

Definitely lots of shady stuff at my large, public high school. Our valedictorian developed her lead by taking AP French at another school in the summer before sophomore year when most students weren't allowed by the administration to take AP classes.

The gunners at the top had mostly a miserable time in high school. I was solidly at 10%, a few spots behind townie. Got those 11 varsity letters though, that's what I was really proud of at the time. Early decision at wake: easy call.
 
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