<p>hi everyone! i am an applying senior in high school and it's beginning to become very nerve-wracking!</p>
<p>i have a good GPA with a tough curriculum, great extra-curriculars, but not so great SAT/ACT scores. i was wondering if anyone is willing to share stories about getting into schools they didn't expect to get into because they thought the odds were against them but ended up doing just fine! (:</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I have a friend who had a 4.1 weighted and a 1930 on the SAT and he was accepted to Berk. He was planning on going to community college, but he surprised everyone he got into Berk.</p>
<p>Tennis Story-</p>
<p>A friend of mine is on the varsity tennis team, he wasn’t planning on going to a top tier college. But on November 17, he got a call from Dartmouth that another kid had dropped out of their program and now, he is going to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Alexandra Wallace from UCLA. was it a miracle or was it more like a mistake, i wonder</p>
<p>I don’t think SAT/ACT scores play into the college decision as much as GPA and extra-curriculars. A decent score will, however, help you stand out more.</p>
<p>I’ll edit this post throughout this week and next week :D… hopefully</p>
<p>My story is old, but I think it still qualifies: GC told my brother he wasn’t Ivy League material. He got in to Harvard, Princeton and Yale.</p>
<p>This applies to me this year:</p>
<p>3.93 unweighted GPA
1840 on my SAT
700 Math II 650 US History</p>
<p>Accepted to UMiami (average SAT is between 1950 to 2100)
with $20,000 scholarship (2150+ usually deserves it)</p>
<p>This is miracle. My SATs are pathetic. And I don’t have any AP credits.
Maybe being a leader of a rock band and writing an essay about it may helped my chance significantly :)</p>
<p>Haha mine for AU.</p>
<p>3.446 Unweighted GPA
2060 on my SATs
AP Lit 5, AP US 4
Major downward trend due to emotional upheavel & moving in September.</p>
<p>Accepted to American and Rutgers(as an In-State! Awesome), UDel and UVM. I’m pretty exciteddd!</p>
<p>My GPA is horrific, obviously. My senior year transcript is terrible (B’s and C’s, one or two A’s, and two D’s in Calculus). But I think it was my SAT scores and my essay (about my favourite teacher & his creating a non-profit to help free & educate child slaves in Ghana and how it influenced my career and major choice) that really saved me.</p>
<p>A senior went to Northeastern University last year on full scholarship(tuition+room+board). He had 2 As and one E(the worst) in his A Levels. And SAT 1640/2400.
Also, remember that he is an international student.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.545 UW
SAT: 2030
Race: whiTeee, translucent really.
Income: Diddy - Dirty Money.
EC’s: Activities with balls. Applied to NHS but was tossed (those BASTARDS~). Guitar licker.</p>
<p>With only a chip and a chair and a couple of esoteric essays, I applied early to a school on the front page of USNWR rankings (even above-the-fold) and…. Booo-yahhhhh baby. Needless to say, with many perfect 4.0’s and 2400 SAT rejections, the “WT F’s” and “must-have-had-a-connection“ rumors where flying around HS (and don’t that feel good?). I don’t like my chances for graduation, but I can at least wear the cool T-shirt they sent me for awhile to impress chicks, man. With grants, and another scholarship, I even wound up comp’d – Gunga Galunga – so I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.</p>
I need one of these mircalces,
1870 SAT
660 sat2 math
650 sat2 physics
700 sat2 math 1
3.2-3.3 gpa
lots of extra cirrics’s
lol
I am waiting for my miracle stories haha
I see miracle stories when I google a schools common data set and then page down to how many incoming freshman in each ACT or SAT range. Always wonder about the 3 or 4 or whatever accepted at the lowest level. What did they have that drew the school’s interest because their test scores were so low!
@Rdtsmith , they had a hook. Recruited athlete, URM, legacy, some other extenuating circumstance. I guarantee that it was not a student without a hook.
Obviously they had a hook but you wonder what that hook was! Plus it gives prospective students who fall below the average standards realistic expectations. But still I’ve noticed some colleges have higher bottom of the barrel numbers than others.