<p>I am a junior in high school and I am out of state.</p>
<p>I took the SAT for the first time on December 5th, and although I was slightly disappointed with my scores; I feel as if they were decent for having absolutely no preparation at all.</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>580 Critical Reading
530 Math
570 Writing</p>
<p>GPA - 3.98
Class rank - Top 25% (This is an estimate; I may be higher)</p>
<p>I am in the International Baccalaureate program at my school which is the equivalent of AP classes except for Pre Calc Honors and French 3 Honors. I hope to obtain an IB Diploma at the end of my senior year.</p>
<p>Extra Curricular - I play on the varsity soccer team and I am involved in a few clubs (Not an officer of any club due to soccer). Additionally, I am in the National Honor Society at my school.</p>
<p>I just wanted some honest outside input as to my chances of being admitted into the first year engineering program. </p>
<p>I am taking the ACT in February and plan to get a tutor to help me with the math. Also, I plan to take the SAT at least 2 more times. </p>
<p>Any advice given is greatly appreciated! Thank you!</p>
<p>You have generally solid credentials, but SAT’s have to be risen by 100 points each to fall within the 50% range of NYU. Also, it would do wonders for your app if you become an officer in one or more of the clubs other than soccer.</p>
<p>Is your GPA weighted or unweighted? I ask this because NYU only looks at the unweighted average. Also, your SAT is pretty good for first time with no preparation. I would suggest taking a class or buying a prep book and really working through it. Your scores will go up SO much. On the first practice SAT I ever took I got around a 1670, and when applying to college several months later after taking a class I had a 2050 (superscored). It just really goes to show how much preparation can really help you.</p>
<p>***? NYU doesnt look at weighted? thats ridiculous!</p>
<p>I take the most challenging curriculam so my UW is like 87 and weighted is 97. Someone taking the lowest level courses can have their GPA be UW 90 and W 90…grades need to be weighed in my school in order to make sure all students have what they deserve when compared to others.</p>
<p>NYU equalizes your GPA. so they’ll take everything into account. your guidance counselor will make a note in your file about how weighting works at your school, easyasabc, don’t worry.</p>
<p>If you want an honest answer, I don’t think you’ll get in.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen anyone get accepted with SAT score’s that low. Unless you submit 3 AP scores, ACT’s, or 3 SAT 2’s, your chances are very very slim</p>
<p>I agree with Colij. Your best bet is to take the ACT and hope for magic in a bottle. Or, if you can submit 3 AP scores of 4 or 5, I certainly would do that instead.</p>
<p>Well there’s really no trick… and because I’m not a tutor… I don’t really have much to say that’ll help. I just studied a lot of vocab for CR, a lot of math practice, and read a SAT writing book and broke 2100. I mean I got an 1830 on my psat’s, so it’s not something you can expect to improve on quickly. I really recommend an alternative to the SAT’s but studying a lot and taking a shot never hurts</p>
<p>@missamericanpie
it’ll take a lot a lot of studying to bump it up to a 2000 which is around the average for nyu. Even when taking the test for the first time as a junior… 1680 is pretty low. You can’t expect it to go up 300 points in a matter of months. I had friends who only improved 100-150 points from their score in 11th grade with a lot of studying and many friends who didn’t go up at all… so we’re not bashing it… we’re just telling the OP that it’s really up to him to pull it together with the SAT’s unless he beasts the ACT’s.</p>
<p>your sat scores need to increase but your only a junior so he have time including the entire summer. if you can get those scores up, i think you have a pretty fair chance</p>
<p>hey colij, thanks for the doubt … it made me work harder and score a 590- Math, 620- Reading, and 670- Writing , which brought my score up to an 1210/1600 and 1880/2400 … which is in fact 200 points above my original score of 1680 … impossible is nothing ;)</p>
<p>Quite the improvement. Are you applying ED? You should be able to fit in one more chance to improve your score. Also are you submitting SAT2s or AP scores?</p>