<p>If anyone could offer their opinion/advice, I would really appreciate it! :)</p>
<p>SAT: 2120 (1390 math + CR)</p>
<p>SAT II: 630 in Italian, 690 in Literature, 730 in US History</p>
<p>AP's Taken:
-Junior Year: US History and English Lang/Comp (5's in both on AP tests)
-Senior Year: Planning on taking Psychology and Art History</p>
<p>Honors:
-Taken honors all through high school in Math, Science, English, Italian, History
-One year ahead in the Science track (completed Bio, Chem, and Physics before senior year)
-Planning on taking English Comp I and Calculus Honors in senior year for college credit
-Finished most classes with A's, a few B's, no C's or below
-Honor roll every quarter of high school
-7 years of Italian</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>Rank: My school doesn't rank</p>
<p>EC's:
-Led the school newspaper to get its first issue on newsprint through fund-raising freshman year
-Danced for 10 years, on a competition team for 6 years
-Been on the high school dance team for all 3 years I was able to (doesn't offer it for freshman) --> am one of 3 captains of the team for senior year
-Tutored in Italian and volunteered at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
-Held a job during from April to October
-Took part in a 10 day course on Journalism & Media Studies through LeadAmerica held at Columbia during summer '08
-Traveled to Italy for 12 days with school during summer '09</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help! :)</p>
<p>Edit: Also, the majors I'm looking at are Psychology, Art History, Italian, and European Studies</p>
<p>SAT I is pretty good, SAT II scores should be raised. I highly recommend taking Italian again, because that’s a major you’re looking at and your score is low-ish and doesn’t really reflect your interest in it. You can easily take Literature again, seeing as you’re hopefully taking English again this year. </p>
<p>Unless your school doesn’t offer many APs, you definitely need to be taking way more. As in your senior year should be almost ALL APs. You can’t really fix junior year now, but try taking some classes at the your local community college to show you’re challenging yourself (Honors doesn’t really have the same “prestige” as an AP or community college course). But then again, it might show you just realized that you should be challenging yourself. That’s your biggest weak spot.</p>
<p>ECs are pretty good, especially with the paper and your dance team, but you don’t have any community service. You could start up with that now, but again it looks like you just realized that you should be contributing something to the community pretty late in the game.</p>
<p>Your chances aren’t looking fantastic at the moment, but if you work on your scores, transcript, and community service, you have a semi-good chance at being accepted. Make sure your essay is amazing too, of course!</p>
<p>Columbia might be a reach for you right now. I agree with yaintime21; your SAT II scores are not that high and you don’t have enough APs, but luckily, you still have time to change the SAT II situation and improve your chances.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! I’m not really setting my sights on any Ivies but I thought it’d be fun to apply. But I can still get more AP’s for my senior year so I’ll definitely talk to my guidance counselor about that.</p>