<p>for a top 25 undergrad school--- my goal is georgetown</p>
<p>School info:
public school (avid district but improving)
NJ
Sent someone to John Hopkins this year so far-- Columbia and Cornell last year</p>
<p>Me:
Junior
African American Female</p>
<p>Academics
Current GPA: 4.0 on a 4.0 scale
Junior Schedule: (AP scores pending) AP History, AP English, AP Physics B, precal, french III etc etc
Senior Year: AP Calculus, AP English, AP Bio/Chemistry, French IV etc etc</p>
<p>SAT
Waiting for March results--Took a practice test-- 1950 but im improving ( i went from a 1540 to a 1950 in 2 weeks :) )
610 m, 610 cr, 730 w
SAT IIs pending
ACT pending</p>
<p>LEADERSHIP
-Student Rep to Board of Education (only student on board)
-County Director for official state student political organization (more than 2,000 members state wide)--worked on '08 and '09 campaigns
-Editor (main)-- school newspaper
-NHS (shoe in for vice president)
-Varsity Soccer
-Vice President of Class (10)
-Financial adviser for an organization (music based--family owned)
--I do not add up my volunteer hours but ive worked in a soup kitchen and for the NHS beaucoup.</p>
<p>Other
-- I attend a Saturday program (called saturday scholars) every saturday morning :/ with Rutgers University.
-- Poetry publications at local library
-- Numerous awards for excellence in world language, english, math, science
-- only junior in ap history (if that counts for something lol)</p>
<p>** writing is my number one strength so my essays should be pretty strong </p>
<p>Summer
NYU precollege
LEAD (hopefully i get accepted ;) )</p>
<p>Your high school record is good, although at a top 25 school it isn’t amazing, and your GPA of course is perfect.</p>
<p>I’m concerned by your standardized test scores; at any top 25 school they would be lackluster and I’m afraid they might keep an adcom from taking your application seriously. I would advise continuing practicing the SAT, particuarly the math and critical reading sections, because a lot of colleges focus on these much more than the writing.</p>
<p>Your minority status will help you at any top 25 school, and if you can continue to improve your transcript I think you’ll have a good chance at a lot of great schools.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>you know what bothers me?
a girl in my school who got into columbia only scored an 1850 on the SATs (she’s black)
another girl (who is hispanic) got a 550 in math and then probably not too high in either other category be/c her english isnt extremely strong.
will a adcom at a top school really bypass my app be/c of a 1950-2150?
ps, i am planning to apply early to as much as my top choices as i can</p>
<p>and thanks for the luck :)</p>
<p>Woah I’ve never heard of someone getting into Columbia with those stats. I might be wrong but I think that’s a little unusual. Affirmative action is taken into consideration at all schools but I can’t believe it could be that drastic.</p>
<p>And you’re correct you’re obviously more academically qualified in that regard.</p>
<p>I’d say keep working on the SAT- study over the summer (Barron’s SAT 2400 is quite good, then do practice tests), then take one of the fall tests. If you can get a 2300 (which I’m sure you can, sat testing is an acquired skill that we just all have to slug through these days) you’ll be pretty solid.</p>