Can I make it?

Applying to College
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<p>My high school record isn't great. I attended a prestigious high school in my area. Long story short: I should have sought help earlier for my "sickness". Because of this, I took the minimal classes required by my high school to graduate. I did, however, take two AP classes my senior year. Albeit, no honors my entire school year.
My whole entire average, I think, comes up to about an 86? </p>

<p>My SAT score is 1690 / 2400.
Math 640
Writing 500
Vocab 550</p>

<p>I messed up on one of the latter two's section by skipping an entire page, messing up my entire score sheet.. and I only realized this 6 minutes before i had to stop for that particular section. And so I scrambled, and probably made it worse.</p>

<p>I've been involved in a youth organizing. Actually, with three organizations.
One, I've been with for 3 years. My resignation from the organization to focus on college subsequently led to an offer to join the organization's board.
I've also been part of another organization's board, at that time a distant but sister organization to my organization. I was later asked to resign because of my heavy involvement with my parent organization.
I was also working with a local organization over the summer writing for them.
As you can see, I'm involved heavily with youth/social activism. Many campaigns/ work have been successful during my tenure in each organizations. In fact, because of these campaigns I've been working on, I've been interviewed by many local news organization in the past few weeks.. if this helps at all.</p>

<p>But over the past year, I've tried very hard, particularly in these last months, to improve myself in any way I can. In college, I hope I can get high marks. Get around a 3.9 GPA, take a few honors courses, and join a few clubs. If all goes well, I want to transfer into a better school.</p>

<p>Some colleges I have in mind are:
Wesleyan (Middletown, CT), Brown (Providence, RI) , Wheaton (Norton, MA), Occidental (LA, CA), Hampshire/Amherst (Amherst, MA), Eugene Lang (New York, NY)</p>

<p>I'm majoring in the social sciences by the way. It's between these four: Economics, Political Science, Sociology & Education (which isn't a social science).</p>

<p>-Should I retake my SATs? And If I do, should I take my SAT II's?
-I know (most of) these colleges are HIGHLY selective, especially for me. I figured if I'm transferring, and spending more money and time, might as well be at a more selective college right? This one has two parts: Are these options even viable for me? Would you recommend me any other colleges that are less selective, but just as great?</p>

<p>Give me feedback; I can take CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.</p>

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<p>Sorry but your chances are hovering right around zero right now with that barely above national average SAT score. I would DEFINITELY retake it in October or November and try to get a 2000+ if you even want to get looked at. Considering your 86% GPA you’ll probably need a 2300+ to get into Brown, I honestly don’t know a ton about liberal arts colleges.</p>

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<p>OP, can you be a little more clear? You’ve already graduated from HS? Are you going to attend CC this coming year or take a gap year? Have you been attending college already? You might have a shot at transferring to Wheaton. What can your family afford to pay?</p>

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<p>Retake if you have any desire at all to not go to community college.</p>

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<p>You need to change your list. You should take the SAT again. You don’t need to change your focus on Community Colleges. Really, there’s a little too much pressure on this forum. </p>

<p>Wheaton could be a match. But there are many, many schools that could be a fit. Just not any of the others on your list.</p>

<p>You don’t need any SAT IIs for the schools you may be looking at. I don’t know where you are from, but you should look at a few out of state colleges or universities that could be a fit, you should look at the book, Colleges that Change lives, where there are a number of choices that could match your current numbers. </p>

<p>If your HS is signed up for Naviance, look at the schools that graduates from your school were accepted to, and what their gpa and test scores are. That may give you an indication of how colleges feel about your HS.</p>