Chance me? I really don't know how bad my SAT's will hurt me.

Colleges & Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>680 CR, 630 Math, 650 W
SAT II'S
Math II: 580
Lit: 640
Spanish: 640</p>

<p>Other than that, i feel im a pretti strong applicant with a tough courseload, 3.9 gpa,16/700 in class, and a lot of extracurriculars. Do many students make up their low scores if everything else was good?</p>

<p>Thanks guys.</p>

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<p>Yes, it is possible to get past poor board scores. Possible, not likely. You have an uphill battle.
Other factors come into play: geography; ethnicity; how tough is your school?; difficulty of curriculum relative to the hardest available at your school; leadership in ECs (it’s more about depth than about making a list with “lots of ECs”).
If the rest of these factors are unusually appealing to the AdCom, an applicant can get past poor board scores, but keep in mind that yours are really low for GU (or any top school), so that you will need to knock their socks off with other aspects of your application.
If you want to go to GU, you should give it your best shot. Just realize that it is a big reach and have plenty of back-ups as part of your overall application strategy.</p>

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<p>thnkss WCASparent. Do you think you could give me overall feedback for these schools with the new information i’ve provided below: Georgetown, John Hopkins, NYU, Carnegie-Mellon</p>

<p>SAT: 680CR, 630M, 650W
SAT II’S: 640 Spanish, 640 Lit
Class Rank: 16/700 (top 3%)
Background: Indian (100%, parents born in India, I was born here), EFC 0
School: Public, has sent anywhere from just 1 to 5 grads to ivy league, and some more to top schools. In suburban town
GPA: 3.9
ExtraCurriculars:
Philosophy Club : Co-Founder/Co-President
World Affairs Club: Treasurer
Interact Club: Director
Model UN - Kutztown/NewYork Conference
Debate Team (6/32 in LD Debate- Regional)
Foreign Language Club
S.A.D.D.
National Honor Society
Other:
Red Cross volunteer
Salvation Army volunteer
American Legion Keystone Girls State Program (selective 1-week summer)
RYLA- Leadership conference sponsored by rotary
Questbridge Finalist (national)
Panera Bread Cashier</p>

<p>Teacher rec 1 - awesome, teacher rec 2 - awesome, counselor- no idea
Essays - should be great. don’t think ill be blowing them out of the water, but i’m a pretty good writer.</p>

<p>Idk. I’m gonna try my best, and I know I really have to make up for just ok scores. I can’t say I have a “hook” though.</p>

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<p>Your scores are pretty low for all of those. Your math score, especially, is really important to Carnegie-Mellon.</p>