<p>Hi everyone. With all the scores finally out, just wanted to throw my stats out there and get an idea for applications.</p>
<p>White female from the Midwest, rising senior
I attend a very small but well respected private school</p>
<p>SAT: 2010
ACT: 30
SAT II: will probably retake two, got a 690 on USH. Unfortunately, that was my highest. Not so pretty.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.92 (UW), 4.00 (W)</p>
<p>APs (senior year included as well):
US History (received a 4 on the exam)
Art History (3 - teacher didn't teach for the exam)
Enviro.Sci. (3 - "")
= "AP Scholar with Honors"</p>
<p>Lang & Comp
Literature
Biology
Calc AB</p>
<p>ECs:
Literary magazine (founder and editor in chief since freshman year)
Yearbook (Editor for junior year and next year)
President of StuCo (and was a grade rep for two years)
-> a fair amount of volunteer opportunities are part of this
4 years varsity tennis
4 years varsity soccer (Captain)
2 years varsity basketball
Hoping to Volunteer with campaigns this fall
Directed a student written one-act (2007), hoping to do the same this year</p>
<p>Summer programs:
Teen Ink London Writing Program
Interlochen Arts Camp - Poetry
Washington University Summer Writer's Institute</p>
<p>Awards:
-John Hopkins Book Award for Writing
-Hollins University Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest (Second Place and Finalist in 2008, Honorable Mention in 2007)
-Published 3 times in Teen Ink Magazine
-Coach's Award for Soccer</p>
<p>Applying to:
Barnard (ED, I think)
Haverford
Kenyon
Vassar
UChicago
Yale
Columbia (both Yale and Columbia are more for kicks - such amazing schools)
Wesleyan
Connecticut College (?)
Reed (?)
Whitman (?)</p>
<p>The last three I haven't visited, but I think I may like them.</p>
<p>Except for Columbia and Yale (reaches for most everyone), your SAT is a bit low, but everything else looks like a low to high match for the other schools. With each at, say, 50/50, your chance of getting into none of them is about 0.2%. ;) What do you want to study?</p>
<p>Yeah, I know about my SAT - I've taken it twice and just can't get it. I'm thinking about taking the ACT again - if that gets up higher, do you think I'm alright?</p>
<p>I'm leaning towards studying English or Linguistics.</p>
<p>don't know if you want my opinion, but you should retake your SATs and/or ACTs. your ECs are pretty solid (especially your sports...WOW. =D), so if you just get those standardized stuff down, you're good to go.</p>
<p>you can take the ACT in lieu of SAT IIs? are you sure? and its lookin good. your ECs are really strong, and they support the major that you want to go in which is reallly good. </p>
<p>i agree with what erbody said - just get those scores up!
but just a thought - if you dont get into columbz, Barnard has a very close relationship with the college, and so if you go to Barnard, you will probably be taking a lot of classes there and will be able to get the Columbia feel.
so dont stress if ya get rejected.</p>
<p>I did a research on about 30 colleges. Most of them require SAT II. I would say about 4 or 5 don't need SAT II if you have ACT. However, your GPA is little bit low for Yale and Columbia and I think they all need SAT II.</p>
<p>Q: What standardized tests does Barnard require for first-year applicants?
A: We require the SAT Reasoning Test and two SAT Subject Tests of your choice OR the ACT with writing option. When evaluating applications, we always look at the highest combination of scores ONLY. International students for whom English is not their primary language of instruction or who have studied in English for less than five years must submit results from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam in addition to required SAT or ACT testing.</p>
<p>So, hoping that all goes well with the ACT, applying ED to Barnard, I shouldn't have to worry about the subject tests.
I really appreciate the research, guys. Thanks so much.</p>