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Colleges and Universities A-Z Swarthmore College
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<p>Academic Achievements</p>

<p>Urban League for Bergen County
African-American Scholar</p>

<p>Excellence Award from the Urban
League for Bergen County</p>

<p>National Honor Roll</p>

<p>United States Achievement Academy</p>

<p>National Honor Society</p>

<p>Principal’s Honor Roll</p>

<p>High Honor Roll</p>

<p>Honor Roll</p>

<p>School Activities</p>

<p>Music</p>

<p>Marching Band, grades 9, 10, 11, 12</p>

<p>Flute Choir, grades 9, 10, 12</p>

<p>Pit Orchestra, grade 11</p>

<p>Concert Band, grades 9, 10, 11, 12</p>

<p>Sports</p>

<p>Tennis, grades 10, 11 (player)
Grade 12 (manager)</p>

<p>Clubs</p>

<p>Literary Magazine, grades 11, 12</p>

<p>THREAD (performing arts), grades 11, 12</p>

<p>Studio 2B (Girl Scouts), grade 12</p>

<p>Private Organization Memberships</p>

<pre><code>Church choir, grade 9
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<p>Work</p>

<p>Secretary at Benjamin Franklin Middle School, grade 11 (the summer before)</p>

<p>Tutored a 3rd grader in reading and math, grade 10</p>

<p>Rank: 39 out of 377. GPA: 4.072
3 Ap classes this year/2 honors
I've been taking honors ever since freshman year
my grades are very unstable. freshman year bad, sophmore year straight As, junior year mainly As (like 2 Bs or something), this year...er. 5 As, 2 Bs, one C (don't shoot me! AP Chem is hard...)
SATs...here comes the horrible part...1640. Gasp! But I'm almost certain I've gone up because I retook it and the first time I was really tired.
So...yeah. You can tell me how funny it is that I'm even applying now.
Oh, and I'm African American, if that helps. And a girl.</p>

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<p>Being AA helps, and your grades are good, but 1640 is just waaay too low...</p>

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<p>Maybe try your luck with ACT? And you need SAT IIs as well.</p>

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<p>yeah, maybe the ACT if I had any money for it, but I don't. and I know about the SAT IIs.
It's not fair (sorry to sound childish). I'm a horrible test taker, it's just the way I am...sigh...</p>

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<p>Wasn't the National Honor Roll thing a scam, guys?</p>

<p>Anyway. You can try to get a fee waiver for the ACT somehow. The SAT II's... Yep, you need those for Swat. Two, to be exact. I took Spanish w/ Listening and am going to take Lit. I WAS gonna take Bio, but I'm feeling lazy. XD</p>

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<p>This is based off of last year's requirements, but as of then the SAT II's weren't required for everyone. I took just the ACT (no SAT or SAT II's) and got in.</p>

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<p>"We advise that applicants take the most cost-effective and least time-consuming set of tests available."</p>

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<p>If you take the ACT, you do not need SAT IIs but with the SAT, I think you have to submit SAT IIs.
You can get a fee waiver for the tests but I believe that your school has to supply some info.
Can you talk to your guidance counselor?
Did you study for the SAT? Your guidance counselor may have books that could help you study.
Have you asked teachers for recommendations yet?</p>

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<p>Yeah.</p>

<p>SAT with writing + 2 SAT II's</p>

<p>OR</p>

<p>ACT with writing</p>

<p>OR</p>

<p>SAT w/ writing + ACT (though you're doing more work than is necessary)</p>

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<p>Were you invited to Discovery weekend? Your chances of admission improve significantly with invitation and attendance. If not, then I believe your chances are not so high. looking at just the responses on this board from last years diversity acceptances, the SAT scores for those students, although lower than the general acceptance pool, were still hovering around the 2000 range. I do hope your scores increase, but traditionally, they don't vary much from your first test score.</p>