chance for ED

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<p>i will be applying Princeton through Questbridge scholarship program...what are my chances of getting into princeton?? It seems that compared to some of the stats posted here I am a puny mortal....</p>

<p>south korean (came here 6 years ago)
in Northern California</p>

<p>gpa: 4.59
rank: 11 out of 400</p>

<p>Full International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidate
National Merit SemiFinalist</p>

<p>sat I: 1520 (will be retaking it)
Sat II: math 2c 800, physics 790, U.S. History 750, Korean 750, Writing 700 (will be retaking it)
IB Physics: 6
IB Spanish: 6
AP Calc BC: 5
AP Physics C (self-study): 4</p>

<p>NHS, CSF member, Principal's Honor Rolls, etc..... the standard stuff...</p>

<p>ec:
-Worked entire high school career, family has low income
-Tennis (4 year varsity, captain, lead the team to NorCal sections multiple times, League MVP, USTA Team Tennis Northern California 2nd Place for 2 years)
-Community Service (my tennis coach and I started a program to send $1000+ worth of tennis equipments to Tanzania...our project was published in "Inside Tennis" magazine) (teach underprivleged students math and immigrants english)
-National History Day (1st at California, 3rd at Nationals)
-Science Olympiad (team 1st at Northern California, 19th at Nationals)
-Played piano for 8 years, got certificates of merit
-co-founder and co-president of film club, history club
-i made a documentary on health of local creek and its impact on humans which got presented at Annual IB Biology Teacher's Conference in Philadelphia
- Summer research on film / media computing at UCSD, final research project presented on the famous CAL-IT2 Theatre in San Diego</p>

<p>I have a feeling that my scores and my ranking is on the low side......but can my extra curriculars offset these fallacies? I will also get extremely good recommendations.</p>

<p>Any input will be thankful!</p>

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<p>i''m assuming you mean 1520 out of 1600 on the old sat 1? see what others say, but i honestly think that you will, if anything, hurt your chances of admission if you retake the test. not only do i have faith that the admission's office would rather you spend your saturday morning pursuing a passion (or at least writing a breathtaking application essay!), but i also think they actually look unfavorably upon soulless striving for utterly mundane forms of "perfection."</p>

<p>a 1520 definitely won't hold you back.</p>

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<p>^^ retaking it won't hurt you.</p>

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<p>I don't think you need to retake ANY of your SATs (including the SAT II's - you have four of them that are 750 and above). that's good enough.</p>