<p>SAT: 2080 (CR: 640 M: 730 WS: 710 -- i expect this composite to go up at LEAST 100 points on the October test)
ACT: 35 (writing scores haven't been released yet for June)
SAT-II: pending, but I'm expecting 710-750 Lit and 740-780 IIc
GPA: 3.85, and have taken the most demanding courses available to me (5 AP's on my schedule for next year, 1 Syracuse University course and 1 SUNY C.W. Post College Course)
i am white, although i am a second-generation israeli, and am a citizen of both the US and Israel (speak fluent hebrew)</p>
<p>a lot of more or less worthless clubs (i.e.: forced to take marching band as a club while in band, quite playing lacrosse after 3 years), however, high up position in my school's model UN club, won an outstanding delegate award at the University of Chicago's annual MUN session.</p>
<p>i play multiple instruments and recieved a perfect score on the highest level (6) at NYSSMA (actually, that was in 8th grade too haha), which is New York's musical achievement testing.</p>
<p>i have been selected for prestige in painting (although this was early in high school).</p>
<p>i have worked for all of high school at two different jobs, at least 10 hours a week.</p>
<p>i have interned for the presiding majority leader of the local legislator for the past year and intend to continue as well as help her with her campaign next year. (>50 hrs total)</p>
<p>i will have 2 or 3 quite good reccomendations from 2 or 3 teachers that know me quite well, as well as an additional reccomendation from the presiding officer of my county legislator.</p>
<p>i am a member of the national honor society as well as the national spanish honor society.</p>
<p>You'll have to get the SAT up at least 70 points to be looked at REgular DEcision. If I were you, being from New York, I'd take a look at UPenn, your scores are more up their alley. You'd definitely get in UPenn EA or ED.</p>
<p>If you took the ACT with the writing section, I am pretty sure it substitutes for the SAT I. You have an excellent ACT score. Find out more information at their website for admissions about their policy on ACT.</p>
<p>I took it with writing, but the only thing I'm afraid of is the adcom thinking that, as a New Yorker, not submitting the SAT means I have something to hide.</p>
<p>I don't think adcoms have the right to make assumptions about your SAT score simply from the fact that you didn't send it. You're definitely very accomplished, but I think what you lack is a specific focus or demonstrated interest in a field; your ECs are kind of all over the place. It kind of looks like you're interested in poli sci, but to me it doesn't really seem like a strong interest.</p>
<p>i can definitely see what you mean, but i guess i'll have to stress the amount of work i put into the little things i have, such as my campaign work with the legislator and the leadership in MUN.</p>
<p>A couple of things, I suspect the adcoms will take the highest of the ACT/SAT I scores. Your 35 is higher than your 2080 after the conversion. But you should ask them directly.</p>
<p>Additionally, Princeton requires 3 SAT II tests and you are only listing 2.</p>
<p>1370 in the old sat range.. um.. are you sure you wanna apply to Princeton? I mean, it would be a darn waste of money for you. I think you would be great at Cornell. You look like the typical eh.. well.. reject applicant for Princeton. Recommendation/internship at the county gov't thing is nowadays too common since a plenty of people have parental connections to the "important people." </p>
<p>Wait, do you have alumni connections? If so you might have a slight chance by going ED. I'd say even Cornell is your reach.. and matches for you would be somewhere around NYU, Tufts, Johns Hopkins level. Columbia's also a good ED Reach for you, since they look more into personal accomplishments.. </p>
<p>I dunno.. i will stop my babbling now. If you think I am too harsh, please please ignore all I've said, because when I get asked about chances, I only give my opinion based on experience, and people get angry.. although they were the ones who had asked for advice in the first place.. </p>
<p>O right, here's my 2 cents: raise the scores and you might stand a chance, and make sure to emphasize 2-3 of your primary passions (clubs/jobs whatever) so that the adcoms will remember you during "rounds": "hey, I wanna let that astro chick into the class of 2010" or "the pianist from Chile is really awesome! He even got a Bronze in the Physics Olympiad" ... or something that would stick out to the adcoms</p>
<p>plushenko, please, I'm not one to get offended over the opinions of my peers; say what you want and say what you feel. however, that point you made is my trouble exactly; i do not know whether my ACT score (35/1580) will properly overshadow my SAT score (1370 + 710). if it does, i think my chances will be raised immensely.</p>