<p>Thanks for all the input! Just to clarify, I’m probably taking the SAT twice in the fall. I kinda just winged it in the spring. I’m definitely going to try to study this time. Probably going to take the ACT too</p>
<p>Does MIT regard legacies highly?</p>
<p>You would need to pull your SAT scores way up for MIT. On the College Board website, it says they also require a math and science SAT II, so those would need to come way up also. Also, it doesn’t say that they place much value on legacies…</p>
<p>[College</a> Search - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT - Admission](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/971007-chances-emory-davidson-others.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/971007-chances-emory-davidson-others.html</a></p>
<p>No school considers legacies as much as a generation or two ago, as far as I know. It has minor weight. Certainly if you have the stats anyway it will help break ties, but it won’t make any difference in your case. Your SAT stats are not close to MIT cut-offs at this point. If you somehow got your SAT scores up to 2200, and improved the math tests, then maybe. But given that math doesn’t seem to be your thing, why would you want to go to MIT? You might find yourself well out of your element.</p>
<p>Yeah, science and history are more my thing. But I still do really well in my math classes. It’s just that on the SAT’s and subject tests I can never finish so that’s why my scores are mediocre. But I’m working on that.
Another thing I’d like to know…do any of the colleges I listed require interviews?</p>
<p>I wasn’t really considering MIT. I was just curious to see if I had a shot with the legacy</p>
<p>Yeah, I would focus on more realistic schools. Some schools still either require or highly recommend interviews, but most do not. You just have to look at the admissions portion of their web sites. Setting up an interview while you visit a school or arranging for one in your area can show high interest in a particular school, and that can be an advantage. It won’t make up for stats that don’t meet their level, but it helps if you are borderline.</p>
<p>How much would I have to improve my SATs to have a good shot at NYU? (realistically)</p>
<p>Definitely not MIT, with a 580 on the MathII. IDK about WPI.</p>
<p>I think you’re good for Vermont, UNH and Syracuse, and maybe BU and Rutgers- they were tough this year). The rest are reaches with your current SATs.</p>
<p>Have you ever considered an SAT optional school? With your good grades and rank, maybe you should. Here’s a list: [Optional</a> List | FairTest](<a href=“http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional]Optional”>ACT/SAT Optional List - Fairtest)
There are a lote of schools that you’ve never heard of, but also Holy Cross, Bates, Middlebury, George mason, Franklin and Marshall, Hamilton, others.
WPI is on there, too.</p>
<p>Actually, NYU is on the list, but you need strong SAT 2 and AP test scores, so IDK.</p>
<p>Another thing about NYU. Great academics in many areas, and going to school in NYC can be fantastic I am sure. But be sure you really want a school that essentially has no campus. It is quite a different college experience than virtually all the other schools on your list, BU probably being the closest match in that sense.</p>
<p>I am almost positive that I want to go to school in the city. I know some of the schools i listed arnt in the city, but they still have convenient locations (uconn is in between Boston and NYC, lehigh is near Allentown and in between Philly and NYC, rutgers is near NYC). Any suggestions for schools in major cities in the northeast? Don’t be afraid to suggest a few reaches</p>
<p>Rutgers- not very close to NYC. I mean, you can get there, but it’s a trip. Lehigh- also not too close to either city, but you can get there.</p>
<p>Fordham? Pace? Villanova?</p>
<p>Google maps says it’s less than an hour to NYC…it’s not much of a trip.</p>
<p>Traffic, traffic, traffic. But you can take the train of course. Smarter way to go anyway.</p>
<p>Noted. You guys mind chancing me at a few more schools?</p>
<p>Boston college
Tufts
U Texas at Austin
Fordham
George washington
Drexel
Loyola (Maryland)
Brandeis
Holy cross
DePaul
Northwestern
Mass College of pharmacy (Boston)*</p>
<p>Oh and villanova and McGill</p>
<p>For McGill, your GPA is in the range but SAT is low at 1820. Average SAT for enroled McGill freshmen is 2060. EC’s, recs do not count for admission.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m working on that…what about the other schools?</p>
<p>Do I stand a better chance at some of the less diverse schools I listed because of my ethnicity? Like Boston College for example…</p>
<p>I don’t think so. There are a lot of Asians of many nationalities applying to most of the top schools. I don’t think they would be considered underrepresented. In fact, just the opposite. At a lot of schools and especially for certain majors there are far more than their overall percentage of the USA population.</p>