<p>I am a junior in High school right now.
Weighted GPA: 4.19
Unweighted GPA: 3.95</p>
<p>SAT: 2100
ACT: 34</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Tennis. NorCal rank: 57, League MVP, Section Champion Division 2</p>
<p>President Math Club, President CSF, VP Science Club, National Honor Society Member</p>
<p>Colleges I want:
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
CalTech
Duke
UChicago
UPENN
UCB
UCLA
UCSD</p>
<p>Also on the colleges
UCD
UCSB
UCI
Cal Poly
John Hopkins</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I am also taking 5 APs next year as well</p>
<p>All are reaches except UCSD and don’t worry they aren’t reaches for you specifically they are reaches for everyone.</p>
<p>also use your ACT over your SAT don’t even submit that.</p>
<p>I don’t believe what you are saying, missouriboy. Those colleges Clipper32 listed probably prefer to see SAT scores rather than ACT because ACT’s student range is too broad compare to SAT’s; even my college counselors said that students should take SAT if they are going to apply for Ivy leagues.</p>
<p>^And yet the school’s themselves say that they have no preference.</p>
<p>^ then why would people who apply to Ivy league bother to take both of them when they don’t need to? I just wanted to remark that it’s better to let admission officers also see his SAT stats, not only ACT stats.</p>
<p>The admission offices claim they have no preference. One may submit the better of the 2 if there is a clear difference. Submitting both scores would not hurt anyway. Even the range is broader for ACT, ACT34 is still well above the range for SAT 2100. The low end of ACT34 on the conversion table is still above 2200 in SAT. Obviously, one may need to do a sectional conversion instead of composite score conversion for comparison depending on the school they are applying. There is only historical reason that gives people the impression of one test to be more favorable that the other one for certain school.</p>
<p>The only reason the SAT is so widely used among Ivy applicants is because a lot of them come from the east where the test that is taken is predominantly the SAT. In the Chicago suburbs (where i live), we mostly take the ACT because it is the official required test for Illinois and statistics for schools with the most midwest applicants reflect that the ACT popular. And i know plenty of kids from my school that got into Ivies or Ivy-equivalent schools that took only the ACT. </p>
<p>Because of this, I would just toss the 2100 and submit the 34. Including a lower SAT score alongside a high ACT score will do you more harm than good for admission to the schools you listed.</p>
<p>Most people applying take both to see which they are better at.</p>
<p>Note that if you take SAT2 and do not pay extra for score choice, you are sending in SAT1 score to the schools at the same time. Submitting both a good ACT score with a less good SAT1 score would hurt your wallet more than your chance, particularly for those schools who do superscore. They will only look at the better ones anyway. After all, I don’t see a reason to hide a SAT 2100, but I do see an economical reason of not sending it.</p>