<p>Ok... I loved tufts.. but am I without a chance?
time 1 time 2
Math 550 690
Verbal 570 610
Writing 630 660</p>
<p>I went up a lot... i choked my first time.</p>
<p>i have like mid 90's average, probably top 25% (my fresh year grades are bad but jr. and soph make up for that)</p>
<p>extras</p>
<p>Spent a summer living on rutgers college campus doing tikkun olam volunteering in a special needs camp and an inner city camp</p>
<p>lobbied at congress for gay rights</p>
<p>starting a darfur awareness club at school</p>
<p>all honors and AP courses</p>
<p>part of the drama society, chess club, writers club</p>
<p>Hold an office position in a north-American-federation-of-temple-youth Regional board.</p>
<p>do therapeutic horse back riding for the disabled every Sunday</p>
<p>am an active member of my town 4 h club</p>
<p>since i wanna be pre vet.. it may help that i spent all the rest of my time at a barn </p>
<p>i play violin.. and have all 4 years of HS</p>
<p>i know the SATs aren't stellar... but...</p>
<p>you'll have to write a really amazing essay...</p>
<p>as for your class rank and GPA, what sort of school do you go to? because top 25 percent is usually only acceptable for private or really competitive public schools...</p>
<p>To be honest, it's going to be a long shot.</p>
<p>the average at tufts is for people to be in the top 6 percent of their class.</p>
<p>top 6 percent is for admitted, i wonder what the average is for enrolled</p>
<p>Welp, all i can do is hope for the best. I'm getting my first book published this summer so i hope that will help too.</p>
<p>ooh whats it about</p>
<p>A published book might help ... :)</p>
<p>It's poetry. And i hope so....</p>
<p>Interesting :)</p>
<p>Are you really considered an outstanding student in your school? The reason I ask this is that it will equate with good, unique recommendations, which are an essential part of the top "whole package" that a school like Tufts will be looking for. That would probably go a long way in fixing the rank problem, etc. My concern is still the SAT's. Can you take the SAT I a 3rd time? There's absolutely no harm in doing that; as with all of the top universities, Tufts will take your best individual scores...</p>
<p>I will take it again...and I think I did really well, in all my subject tests. I prob. got like a 790 in math; bio and U.S. prob. round 700s, maybe higher. So maybe that will help.
But I'm going to study all summer and take my SAT's again. I know this doesn't really matter, but the speaker, when I went to tufts, mentioned tikkun olam, putting the world back together. Do you think it helps a smidge that I spent last summer doing a program that sets its platform on that?</p>
<p>I think you can get in, esp if you can bring up your SATs. The published book sounds cool and will definately help you.</p>
<p>Nice :) High SAT II's definitely help. That will help you. As i've said before, the book really helps too. Personally, i'm not familiar with "tikkun olam" but if you've shown a strong commitment, that's excellent. Remember, with any of the top institutions, if they see a weak point (realtive, we're talking about), a very strong point in another area will make up for it (to an extent).</p>