Chance me for Stony Brook Please...

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stony Brook University - SUNY
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<p>I would really appreciate it if some of you would give me an honest opinon of my chances at getting into Stony Brook. Also keep in mind that I am about to begin my senior year of High School, so if any of you know anything I could do better, don't be afraid to tell.</p>

<p>SAT: M 680, CR 640, W 670 ( all of them together is a 1990)
SAT 2: Chem 690
AP: Env. Sci(4), Art History(4), World History(5), English Lang. and Comp.(3),
Physics B(4), US History(4)<br>
Awards: AP Scholar, High School Chess Champion
EC: Chess Club, Math Team, Robotics, DECA, Academic Team
Community Service: 15 hours or so (yeah, I know my community service sucks)</p>

<p>It would also help if you could tell me what to change on my schedule for senior year:
AP Macro Economics
AP Gov
AP Literature
AP Biology
College Spanish
College Accounting
Pre-AP Calculus (Will not having AP Calculus AB rule out my chances of getting in?)</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for any help. :)</p>

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<p>Anybody…</p>

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<p>you’ll probably get in. i got around 1800’s on the sat, with math being 720…</p>

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<p>Did you apply this year or even before? Thanks again.</p>

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<p>Hi AwsomeSauce,</p>

<p>Here is the link to the admission criteria that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions generally looks for in a freshman applicant:</p>

<p>[Stony</a> Brook University Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.stonybrook.edu/ugadmissions/applying/fresh_criteria.shtml]Stony”>First Year)</p>

<p>Hope this information helps!</p>

<p>~meg</p>

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<p>Very good shot in my opinion. If your SAT was higher you would increase your chance of getting into scholars and that comes with some decent scholarships as well.</p>

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<p>Engineergirl, if I got a high score on the ACT, do you think I could get into the scholar’s program or do they only really care about the SAT, and thanks again for replying. I’m really new to this application thing, so I’m sorry if I ask some stupid questions. :)</p>

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<p>Not a stupid question at all! I would think that they wouldn’t prefer one over the other–after all they’re both nationally standardized tests and that’s really all that matters. Also, there’s no cutoff for scholars or any extra application, you’re just placed into it by the admissions committee. However I do think a 1990 (or a comparable ACT) is a tad low just thinking of national percentiles. </p>

<p>If you’d be interested in the honors college there’s that option as well. that requires an extra essay if you don’t respond to the first prompt on the common app (or at least that’s how it was last year…i know they’ve changed the common app prompts this year). There’s about 60 students in honors, so it’s selective, but the main advantages are very good merit aid, priority registration for classes (really really nice), interesting seminars that other stony brook students can’t take and research opportunities. Im an incoming freshman into the honors college, so i don’t know much about being there just yet (move-in day is in about two weeks!) but i can answer questions about the admission process if you happen to have any.</p>

<p>For now though, my biggest advice is to get the standardized scores up…maybe even try retaking the Chem SAT and/or taking another subject test so as to showcase your skills better. Do you have an intended major in mind? If it’s in the sciences, take the math subject test. Sparknotes has AMAZING subject text SAT prep. I read through the whole thing in a week and went up from a 730 to an 800 with no problem.</p>