<p>Since my other thread posted in a SUNY board didn't get many replies, I hope posting in here will have a better result! It would be great if you guys can chance me! These are the schools that I'm considering for so far:</p>
<p>NYU
U of Rochester
Boston U
Boston C
Pennsylvania State U (UP)
Rutgers New Brunswick
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Stony Brook
SUNY Buffalo
Syracuse Univ
St. John's U</p>
<p>Junior
GPA: 93.16 weighted (I guess about a 3.73?)
91.7 unweighted
SAT: 1120/1600 (490v, 630m)
1750/2400 (630w, 10 on essay)</p>
<p>EC:
- Yearbook Committee (9th)
- Key Club (11th-present)
- Ellipsis Club (11th-present)
- Volunteer at hospital (expect to have 150+ hrs by Sept.)</p>
<p>Asian (Chinese), female, migrated to the US at the age of 10, and currently resided in NYC.</p>
<p>I know my SAT is really bad, especially for the CR section, but I'm going to retake in May, so I'm expecting an improvement. I am also going to take the ACT, since vocabs are my weakness and the ACT doesn't test that, so I think I'll score higher on that hopefully. I'm going to take SATIIs for Math1(expecting middle-high 600?) and probably Chinese(expecting 700ish) later in the year.</p>
<p>Feel free to suggest schools as well! Thank you so much in advance!</p>
<p>bbyy - Can't speak for the others, but I can say you'd likely at least be in the ballpark for admission at Stony Brook, at least this year. (Don't know what '08 will look like yet.) If you're retaking the SAT, that'd be good -- it wouldn't hurt to get it up closer to our average, which will be around a 1240/1600 this fall -- but depending on what major you're looking for, though, it sounds like you'd be close. Good luck in your college search, and if you have other questions, please let us know.</p>
<p>Chris D'Orso
Assistant Director of Admissions
Stony Brook University</p>
<p>wow, look at that. I don't think I've ever seen a direct comment from a rep at the school being chanced. That verbal score is what's hurting you, pull it into the 500's and your chances will go way up everywhere.</p>
<p>sbuadmissions: I do have some questions: Would Stony Brook consider evaluating the Writing section of the SATs next year? How's the admissions for the majors Economics, Psychology or Accounting? Will applying as Undecided increase chances of admission?</p>
<p>bbyy,
I can answer you that they ask for your Intended Major (please be serious about it, because i have a friend that is a pol sci and put down bio and they gave him bio classes which he didn't even do well on.). If you put undecided they give you the core classes to take which doesn't hurt for the semester. Unless you want to be admitted into the special programs like the Honors or Engineering College/Business then it matters.</p>
<p>Hey, that's what we're here for, isn't it? :)</p>
<p>bbyy - I doubt we'll look at the Writing section next year. We're still using it to see if it's relevant; comparing scores of incoming students with their placement exams and College Writing I coursework. As far as admissions goes, we admit directly into Engineering & Applied Science and Business, but other than that, what major interest you put on the application doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, so you could list any of those except Accounting (which is a concentration within the School of Business, but not a full major).</p>