<p>White Female from Lexington, Kentucky
SAT: 630 Reading 720 Math 680 Writing
SAT II: Math II 630
French 540
U.S. History 660
APs (Junior Year)
Calculus AB 3
U.S. History 4
Biology 3</p>
<p>Senior schedule: AP English, French V, Physics, AP Statistics, AP Government</p>
<p>Very strong essays + recs</p>
<p>4.45 weighted GPA</p>
<p>Varsity golf captain and MVP
Powerbilt All-American (1 of 10 in the country)
Varsity Lacrosse
Varsity Soccer
Freshman Student council-president
French Club
National French Society
National Honor Society
Beta Club
Deans List
Furman Scholar
AP Scholar
Duke TIP program
Senior acolyte at church
Community service-100+ hours</p>
<p>Work experience:
-internship at record label
-clerk at Pepsi </p>
<p>Summer programs
Brown University Medical Program
UCLA Future All-Americans Academy</p>
<p>Need a 2100 or more on SAT...2200 would be best but 2100 is the average for most ivy schools. Princeton I believe is also in the 2100-2200 range. SAT II results could improve (650 + on all subjects) </p>
<p>You have excellent ECs and work experience which will work in your favor. Good GPA. I'm guessing you're not the best test-taker, but those scores need to go up to increase chances... </p>
<p>if you don't have that theshold for scores then you really need to distinguish yourself with other things; your GPA is great, but AP scores are just average; I'd say don't self-report scores. EC's are amazing, but I don't think they balance out the not so hot test scores. Apply though, cuz you only know for sure that you won't get in if you never apply.</p>
<p>The main thing you're missing is test scores. The SAT I scores are fine, although of course, there is always room for improvement. But a 1350 is perfectly OK. You have to work more on your SAT II scores, I think. A 660 is fine, as long as you have other scores that are better to supplement it with. But you dont. </p>
<p>Your GPA and ECs are more than fine, and you said your essays are good. So all you can do is apply, and let them make the decision for you.</p>
<p>great ecs. good gpa.. not so good sat scores.. </p>
<p>i have a strooong feeling that SAT scores will not matter much if other aspects of the app are glowing.. so go on and give the app your best shot!</p>
<p>SAT scores are not everything. One thing i've noticed from reading some of these forums is everyone is so uptight up thier SAT scores. The reason most these ppl are pointing out your SAT scores being "not so hot" is because they themselves probably did pretty well on theirs, so they are hoping that thier SAT score will help THEM out in the admissions process. Its completely normal for ppl to compare things that they are better than others at because thats thier "edge". Golfchic, being an athlete myself, playin lacrosse and football such, I can really admire what it means to be an all-america select, a captain, play 3 varsity sports....all the while taking hard classes. From my perspective, I think that you have a higher chance of getting in than alot of these ppl on this forum, talking about doing stem-cell research, science olympiad, skipping 4 grades, volunteering 29384729347hours, and getting near perfect SATs. Don't get me wrong, those are great attributes, but if all you do is study, you're nothing more than a trained dog. That could be the reason why some of these statistically terrific kids on this forum get deferred. I think you're a worthy candidate for princeton. Don't worry about all the crap about low SAT scores. Remember that none of us on this forum can even say that we truely know how princton makes thier decisions. All we are really are a bunch of kids sitting in front of our Dells, checking these forums every spare minute we have inbetween stem-cell research and AP bio, physics, math, chem, stats, spanish and french homework. The day an admissions officer comes on this forum and proves me wrong, i will take all that back. but until then.....i think you're worthy and GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>robbyg, Princeton still asks on the application to list all AP tests that you took, and they give you a field to fill in score. If he leaves it blank, it could mean he got a 2. At least a 3 is the bottom score that indicates 'qualified.'</p>
<p>ya, i think it might be worse not to list. if people take AP classes and end up not taking the AP tests(or doing so shamefully poorly that they didn't list them), what is that saying about their candidacy?</p>
<p>at least you'll know wat the adcom reps will see, and not be clueless as to how they'd interpret an empty section of the app</p>
<p>I didn't report two of mine that I got a 3 on because I'm going to retake them this year (my counselor said I could?)
So when I listed them, I listed them as to be taken in 2007.
Was that wrong?
I don't really care anymore actually =P</p>