<p>Please rate my chances for Princeton, my dream school! If you could suggest other schools that would be good matches, that'd be great too!</p>
<p>Female, White/Asian, Public School, New Mexico
SAT: 2040
SAT II's:
History: 730
Spanish: 550
Math II: 780
4.0 GPA
10/700 Rank
Probably good recs and pretty good essays
APs: Junior year- History 4, English Lang 3, senior year schedule will have 5 APs</p>
<p>ECs:
Cross country (freshman year)
Piano for 9 years, but no awards or ranking
Choir freshman and sophomore year
Key Club:
VP soph and junior year</p>
<h1>1 fundraiser in state junior year</h1>
<p>President senior year
NHS Junior year, secretary senior year
VP of National Art Honor Society junior year, will be prez senior year</p>
<p>I have started volunteering with my home city (about 5 hrs/week), but have only been doing this since second semester of junior year, some over the summer, and probably into senior year- will this look like I just started to look good on the resume? (I kinda did...lol)</p>
<p>I also started working at an internship once a week in a dentist's office, but again this is just starting up senior year so I dunno how great it will look on the app</p>
<p>Worked at dad's lawfirm for 2 summers, mostly filing paperwork and such</p>
<p>I hate these threads. It's hard to get a good feel for a person from a few statistics.</p>
<p>Well, as you probably know your SATs are at about the 25th percentile for Princeton students. This doesn't automatically take you out of the running but its a major handicap. Get the Reasoning up to 2200 and you have a much better shot. And take another SATII! You do NOT want to have a 550 on your report!</p>
<p>Other than that? You're generally solid. ECs are fine if unexceptional. What I don't see here is any particular passion for anything. You may well have it, but if you do its imperative that you do a good job of conveying it on the app.</p>
<p>Right now: ED odds ~5-10%
With 2200 SAT, good essays and recs - 40%</p>
<p>Your chances are rather low, but there is hope. Start studying now for the October SAT. Do not submit the Spanish SAT II. It's suicide. Given your performance on the math one, I would suggest chemistry, physics, or biology. If none of these work, you could take literature because it measures skills more than knowledge.</p>
<p>The website says that you are required to submit three SAT subject tests, so if you take more than three, you pick the three you want to submit.</p>
<pre><code>* We send a cumulative report of all scores. You cannot send only your latest or highest scores, or separate scores for critical reasoning, writing, or math, or only SAT Reasoning Test or only SAT Subject Tests scores."
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<p>So does that low Spanish score pretty much kill me then, since they will be able to see it for sure? (I don't think I'll have a chance to retake it, and even if i did i'm not sure I'd do much better)</p>
<p>While they consider all of your SAT II scores, they focus only on the top three. If you take another SAT II and score in line with your other SAT IIs, the damage done will be much less severe. It could mean the difference between being classified as an academic 2 and an academic 3.</p>
<p>GR Elton: You seem to be very intelligent when it comes to these number rankings for academics. I'm wondering if you would be able to estimate a person's score if they gave you sat scores and gpa...say a PM, perhaps??</p>
<p>I would certainly be willing to help you, though my information comes from public sources such as Chuck</a> Hughes's fantastic book, which I highly recommend.</p>
<p>Edit: Also The</a> Chosen, which gives intriguing but unfortunately quite limited information on Princeton's system, and Getting</a> In, which is rather dated.</p>