<p>I am a female high school senior from NJ. I'm planning on taking the SATs again and I'm getting my AP scores back in July. My intended majors are international relations and Chinese with a minor in Russian.</p>
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[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 91.5526
[</em>] Weighted GPA: 93.92 (transferred sophomore year to new school which did not weight honors classes, of which I took 5)
[<em>] APs (scores all TBA): English Lang, English Lit, US His, Psych, Bio, Gov, European His, Spanish
[</em>] Class Rank: 59 (top 16%)
[<em>] SAT (taken once): CR: 770 Math: 530 Writing: 680 Combined: 1980
[</em>] Subject Tests: Spanish, History, English
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<p>ECs
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[<em>]Mock trial: 4 years. Captain.
[</em>]Wrestling: Varsity wrestler; first ever female on school team.
[<em>] Latin Honor Society President & founding member
[</em>] Cinderella Society Leader & Founder (global online chat-group interested in religion, occult phenomena, etc)
[<em>] Spanish Honor Society Member
[</em>] National Honor Society Member
[li] 4 years of jiu jitsu / MMA training (for fun)[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>*Internships / Work Exp *
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[<em>] Summer internship with civil attorney
[</em>] Considerable hours worked at family diner
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<p>Honors/Awards
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[<em>] 1st place winner of Scripps National Spelling Bee for school
[</em>] 1st place runner up of county
[<em>] 1st place runner up in teen pageant for town
[</em>] Published in a childrens' anthology
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<p>Recs/Essays
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[<em>] Recs: All pretty great. Guidance counselor, mock trial advisor/AP gov teacher, and Latin teacher/LHS advisor
[</em>] Essays: I'm a strong writer. I'm planning to either write about my experience as the sole female wrestler in school history and the challenges I've faced relating to sexism, grueling practices, etc; or about how my passion for international relations (I've taken 3 languages in school) and fighting experience is in tandem with my CIA/FBI aspirations
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<p>Other
I've taught myself a variety of computer languages including HTML and CSS. I'm working on becoming proficient in Java this summer.</p>
<p>I would put a great deal of effort into getting your math score up. You really want to hit 600, or it can hold you back. Have you tried the ACT? Oldest D did much better on the ACT math than on the SAT math (650 vs 35). She found the SAT more tricky and would get stuck between two answers. The ACT was more straightforward…but longer. She was able to get through the questions in time and with greater accuracy since it wasn’t tricky. A 35 put her in the 99th percentile of test takers, whereas her 650 was more like 88% if I remember correctly maybe lower.)</p>
<p>For younger D, her math scores were fairly comparable on each, but for different reasons. She was able to get a 610 which got her into NYU (art major). Her SAT had mistakes because of tricky questions, but she was always able to finish it. For ACT math, the questions she answered were almost all correct, but she never got to complete the math section in terms of timing.</p>
<p>I know her math score at 610 was just below the 25%ile of applicants at NYU for class of 2012. She did have a 720 on verbal which helped since it was above 75% of applicant’s scores. I would not want to be below 25% if you can help it. A score of 530 is way below that at the schools you list.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight. Yeah, my math SAT score is about a hundred points below my PSAT score. Main reason was that I was short on time in all math sections and never got to around 4 pages of questions. I’m aiming for a 650 next time I take it with a better feel for pacing.</p>
<p>You can’t ‘double major’ per se but in Tufts (among other colleges and universities) you can choose a particular language / culture to focus on within your major.</p>
<p>Actually I want to be a lawyer specializing in international law, so yeah my ECs do fit my major (at least indirectly?). </p>
<p>Tufts, NYU, and Georgetown are all reaches. Both your GPA and SAT are subpar for all these schools. You need o improve on both of those aspects if you want to improve. If you were to apply to these schools with the scores you have now regular decision, you would be rejected from all three schools. Not trying to be rude, just giving you my honest opinion.</p>