<p>your SATI and II's are definitely lacking when I then look at your gpa, i guess I expected more...you're in a lot of clubs but you don't seem to focus on any one thing, you're just in a lot of clubs and you seem to be "packing" the resume...</p>
<p>i know that it looks like that at this point im just trying to isolate what to put on my common app.</p>
<p>i am retaking the SAT and taking the ACT</p>
<p>so my passions are science/math, german, and just being involved (and because i like being involved, it looks like im packing my resume).</p>
<p>i currently have 2 major and 2 minor leadership positions. let me respost this since no one saw it the first time (my passions):</p>
<p>"well if its any help my tutoring at kumon (1500 hours) centers around mostly math and some reading</p>
<p>my 500 personal tutoring hours is almost entirely science</p>
<p>my 50 hours comm. service/research at temple university is science</p>
<p>150 hours volunteering at a cancer center is also science</p>
<p>my essay topic is about how I've had to deal with pain and how I've come to regard doctors as the pillar of my livelihood. i also incorporate how my parents' homeland of Iran has no healthcare system, and my family is frantically searching for a pacemaker in Iran, because it is illegal to import from foreign countries</p>
<p>sound good?"</p>
<p>no one can answer that question?</p>
<p>Hm, I'd say
accept/waitlist at one or two of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Dartmouth;
probably accept at Cornell and Brown
accept at Washington University in St. Louis, University of Chicago, Schreyers (PSU Honors College)</p>
<p>all reaches. you have a great gpa. but your satII's are a reach for those schools. your regular SAT score is fine but most people i know who got intot hose schools scored around the upper 2300's. good luck though!</p>
<p>thanks guys! im retaking my SAT's, and expecting 2300s.</p>
<p>Wait, do they take the highest score form each section of separate SATs? If so, then definitely 2300s.</p>
<p>I was always under the impression SAT II's are never the reason you don't get in, as long as you did a pretty good job. Am i Wrong? Should i retake the SAT II's? (math IIC)</p>
<p>Harvard-reach
Princeton-reach
Yale-reach (these three are for everybody. don't get discouraged. it gets better from here)
Penn-low reach
Schreyers (PSU Honors College)-safety
Cornell-match
Dartmouth-low reach/match
Washington University in St. Louis-match
University of Chicago-match
Duke-low reach/match
Brown-low reach</p>
<p>one more safety school wouldn't hurt you and take off one of your HYP.</p>
<p>ok token sounds good to me! ya i have a few safeties but I didn't feel like asking for my chances there since they are...well...safeties. Would it make a difference that I'm applying EA to Yale?</p>
<p>so does EA at Yale make a difference?</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>yes EA at Yale does make a difference, IMO
and if you want to impress with science/math, you have to impress with awards in competitions such as AMC/AIME/USAMO etc., not volunteering.</p>
<p>im an AIME semifinalist as i mentioned earlier :)</p>
<p>and from what I've heard from the experts, schools want long term commitments and passions directed towards math/science, rather than simple awards</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>