<p>I don’t know what to make of your “predicted grades,” but the SAT scores will not help. But as an international applicant, in an IB program, and with a TOEFL score, you might be evaluated so differently that it’s just hard to predict.</p>
<p>It’s true that it’s a pretty low SAT score, but given that your first language is not English and your worst scores were in the two English sections, I would say its still worth applying. Tufts loves internationals like a fat kid loves candy. I will note that I’m surprised you could get a 7 in IB math and only get a 680 on the math SAT. I suppose the math portion of the SAT has a lot of word problems, so not having English as a first language could still be an impediment?</p>
<p>Actually, these scores aren’t surprising. More children were born and raised in France and my oldest was a junior when we moved to the US. In the French system they actually do different math. They analyse and write a lot (2 pages) about one problem when in the American system you would do 20 in the same amount of time. They actually tend to do much better in college level math. Even the math vocabulary is different. Also, they are not used to doing fast calculations so the SAT is tricky. However, I’m sure that the colleges know how to evaluate international students. The only problem is that there are a lot of international students who plan ahead and work and work on the SAT prep and actually get the great scores too. I don’t know what 91% means on the TOEFL. A score of 91 isn’t 91%. It’s 91 out of 120 which is considered good. A lot of schools want 100.</p>