<p>Hi guys, I am an international student who is ready to apply to colleges.</p>
<p>HOwever, my stats are really bad compared to thost of other students here.</p>
<p>Universities that I am dreaming of are :</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin <my very="" first="" choice="">
Boston univ.
NYU <ed>
Univ of washington
UIUC
Case Western Reserve <ea>
Purdue univ.
UT Austin
UC Davis
Syracuse
Rutgers
RPI
Penn state</ea></ed></my></p>
<p>Please separte these school into Safety, Match, Reach.. </p>
<p>My current stats are :</p>
<p>GPA
9th 3.2
10th 3.65
11th 3.67</p>
<p>SAT
May 1610 V 360 / M 700 / W 550
(I have no idea how to increase my CR score... )</p>
<p>October Hoping to get 1800.
MY ECs.</p>
<p>-captain for freshman(president)
-Math Team Captain
-Theatre Movie leader
-Won a English speech contest in City
-Won a Math Competion in a district
-Member of study group
-Member of chess team
-leader of international honors society
-Member of design team
-won the district champion for math competition.
-Won the first prize in English depart.
-organized a environmental team
-won the english competion again.
-won the Math competition again.</p>
<p>My essay is going to be about my volunteer experience in the Philippines.
(MY teachers said that it was perfect.)</p>
<p>Please.. Do I have any shot to Wisconsin if I get the SAT score of higher than
1750 on my oct sat??</p>
<p>Your verbal score is awful. I'm not going to lie. That's an extremely low score for someone looking at a good college. The only percentiles I know for Wisconsin are for ACT, so without your class rank I can't really say.</p>
<p>NYU and BU are out of your range.</p>
<p>All I can really say is that I don't think any college would look favorably on such a poor verbal score. Bring it up.</p>
<p>you mentioned that you are an international student...is English your first language? I have heard of people for whom English is not a native language taking the TOEFL...also if thats the situation I would think they would give you some leeway as far as critical reading goes.</p>
<p>Either way, I personally think that the best way to improve CR is to get that huge SAT study guide book that the college board puts out and do their practice sections. Yeah, some of the material is the type of thing that you will learn over time in an English class, but for the most part the more familiar you are with the test itself the better you will do. Also, perhaps do some vocabulary studying...make flascards and do 5-10 words a day, or get a vocabulary workbook and do a section every few days.</p>
<p>Good luck with your college applications!</p>
<p>also I was just wondering, why are you applying ED to NYU if Washington is your first choice? If you get into NYU you are required to attend.</p>