<p>Hi</p>
<p>I’m looking at: Cornell, Brown, BU, NYU, Rochester, Williams, Carnegie, UVA, Tufts, UMass Amherst, WPI, Northeastern, UIUC. Looking to do something with math as of right now… Applying to the Arts and Sciences (Liberal Arts) colleges for most of these schools.</p>
<p>I attend a private Catholic HS in MA</p>
<p>3.7 GPA unweighted
2160 SAT - 690 CR, 720 MATH, 750 WRITING, 31 ACT - TAKING THE SAT ONCE MORE AND MY SECOND ACT RESULTS ARE YET TO BE DETERMINED</p>
<p>SAT SUBJECT TESTS:
750 MATH II
670 PHYSICS
660 US HISTORY</p>
<p>AP Scholar with Honor - 9 AP classes
National Honor Society
Honor Roll</p>
<p>Varsity Rower - Winner of 2 medals and a team trophy
National Honor Society
Varsity Math Team
105 Hospital Volunteer Hours and another 20 from the Library
I work at Kumon - I have teaching/tutoring experience in Math and English
Investment Club
Chess Club
I play guitar and piano
I raised money and participated in a Boston Heart Walk this fall</p>
<p>My writing skills are well above par; I’ve been told that my essay is very good so I’m not too worried about that aspect of my resume. I’m getting recommendations from my Calc teacher and a teacher of mine who was a BU Trustee Scholar.</p>
<p>I would retake subject tests first and get those up before retaking the SAT I. GPA could be better. Then again, it’s an ivy league. You never know. </p>
<p>I’d say my GPA is the biggest flaw in my resume… I’ll have taken 9 APs and this GPA is unweighted, but I know lots of applicants are probably in a similar boat terms of number of APs… Are 660 and 670 not good enough scores for SAT IIs?</p>
<p>Generally, you should be aiming for at 750 and above for the SAT II’s.</p>
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<p>Can not say if this is right or wrong. Are you a member of the Admissions Committee? Have some special insight into their deliberations? If this is personal opinion, what is it based on? Grateful for your clarification. </p>
<p>No, I am not a member of the Admissions Committee. I am just stating what is popular wisdom for SAT II’s and the Ivies. This is also what a lot of private college counselors espouse (three that I know of). A quick check of the results threads of Ivy League schools will show you that for unhooked kids that were admitted it holds pretty true. Finally, Princeton published in 2008 that the middle 50% of the average of the three SAT II scores (apparently they required three then) was 700- 790. From this data, I don’t find it a stretch to think that 75% of the individual scores were above 750 back then. It is harder to have three scores average in that range than two so I would assume the two score average would have been even higher.</p>
<p>Finally , things have gotten a lot more competetive just in the last six years as we all know, so again, it is not hard to imagine that 750 and above is a worthy goal.</p>
<p>However, I have no specific inside knowledge, so kids are free to do with this advice as they will. I do suggest they look over past result threads of colleges they are looking at to get a sense of what types of stats and ec’s the admitted students have.</p>
<p>That is very helpful. Thanks.</p>