<p>Dude, those scores are fine. Even harvard and the rest don't care about these scores, they want to see a very high GPA (4.0 or close) and a rigorous schedule, as well as high SATs. That's all the academic qualifications you need - and those are virtually requirements - either you're academically qualified or you're not, they could care less about the AP scores. </p>
<p>Much more important is that elusive quality of being "well-rounded" and "passionate." By the beginning of senior year, I had 1460 on SAT, 4.5 QPA, and 5 5s and a 4, but still got rejected from Brown and MIT 'cause I wasn't "well-rounded" enough. </p>
<p>Chill out man. It really, really, doesn't matter whether you go to Princeton or to SUNY onenonta. And there's no way to quantitatively predict what will or will not get you into Harvard. Just chill. You've got a long time to enjoy high school don't lose it away aiming for something which will come or not come to you based on luck as much as anything else.</p>
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Much more important is that elusive quality of being "well-rounded" and "passionate." By the beginning of senior year, I had 1460 on SAT, 4.5 QPA, and 5 5s and a 4, but still got rejected from Brown and MIT 'cause I wasn't "well-rounded" enough. </p>
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uhh...ok what exactly do you mean "well rounded" ?</p>
<p>do clubs, play sports, music, and/or community service. One thing no one likes to consider is STUDYING LANGUAGES ON YOUR OWN FOR PASSION...for instance, I'll probably be taking AP Italian as a senior after taking AP Spanish as a junior.</p>
<p>Yeah - it means ECs, sports, and things that you do for pleasure - both in and out of the classroom. For science majors, volunteering in a lab would be great, while playing on the football team and founding a political club as you study three foreign languages.</p>
<p>And you'll probably ignore this, but I'll say it anyway. College admissions comes down to a lot of luck - being white and male can hurt just as much as getting a handful of "2s." It helps a lot to be from somewhere "diverse" like Whyoming, and to have parents that are unemployed steelworkers. Even if you have those things, your admissions officer may have preferences that are impossible to predict. In short, your admission to Harvard/Brown etc. is as much an act of chance as of skill. It would therefore be good to do things for the sake of doing them, and not to do them for the sake of impressing some college. And people who do that are more likely to get into those schools in any case; if you do what you're interested in, you're much more likely to do it well, and to catch the attention of the college with your passion.</p>
<p>I got a 3 in world hist, 4 in compsci, and 5 in calc. Am I screwed? (im a sophmore brw, going into junior year in august) I wanna apply to Harvard, Princeton, Brown, UCLA, Stanford, UT, UTD, Rice, and Duke.</p>
<p>Unless you had a bad day, I doubt you are of proper character for the big schools with your 3 in history. History requires connecting the dots and realizing the trends and threads of history in addition to not being an ignorant bigot. Open your mind and soak up the world.</p>
<p>I told you, I had a bad day. First of all, I had Calculus BC in the morning that day, and I got about 30 mins. break between calculus and world history. I went into world history tired as hell...</p>