<p>jhu, You need to stop focusing on your test scores and expand your application to where it counts … what do you do when you’re not in school or studying for the ACT/SAT? How good are you in tennis? Will you be captain your senior year? Are you involved in any community service? If not, is there any community service that you can do that also taps into an area where you want to study in college? For example, if you like medicine, can you volunteer at the hospital? You do not need to waste anymore time perfecting your ACT/SAT because it will not increase your chances any further for any school. Once you get above 2300 or 34, there’s no further value to go higher. As you look at colleges, realize that you or you parents also have to afford them. No Ivy school is going to give you a scholarship for grades, and even some mini-ivies don’t offer merit scholarships. Schools like Boston U, Univ. of Rochester, NYU and other will give merit aid, but they won’t come looking for you, you will have to apply and see what they offer or don’t. All schools are looking for more than GPA and SATs for their highest scholarships, which you clearly have, but there is more to admissions than numbers if you want the scholarships or to get into the Ivies.</p>