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Don't you think my good scores in school will compensate for my low CR score?
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<p>don't plead your case to us. have you looked at the admissions stats for the colleges you are looking at? do you know about common data sets? it is statistical info compiled by colleges in a uniform format so its easy to compare -- some college make theirs readily available at their websites, others dont. it includes stats about student retention as well as student admission. here is a thread with links to many of them <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=76444%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=76444</a> </p>
<p>your sats put at the low end for most of the schools you have listed whereas your gpa may you put you about average for most of them. they get thousands of applications from students with gpa's comparable to yours AND high sats. why do you think your gpa compensates for your sat's? admissions is more than just sat and gpa -- the other factors you mention may help you -- but they don't mean you can ignore the fact that sat is an important factor. (somewhere within the common data set there is also a grid where the colleges can state which admission factors are very important, important, considered, etc -- look at that too to see how important a college considers the sat's)</p>
<p>it is much better to be realistic now and select some more appropriate schools to apply to than to kick yourself in april when you get the decision letters. sure, there is a "chance" you could get into one of these schools with your current stats, but do you really want to hang your college future on that chance?</p>
<p>you say you want to go to a relatively good school -- there are a lot of good schools that don't necessarily have the same name recognition as the ones you've listed. as for the ones you've listed -- well an awful lot of other people also want to go to them and the acceptance rates make them very very competitive to get into.</p>
<p>each april these boards are filled with postings by students with stats far higher than yours (gpa's and sats) who moan in disbelief at the schools they didn't get into -- it can be very devastating. students, such as you, who have done really well in school and expect the same success in the admissions process, and are crushed when they learn the hard way in this current era of very competitive college admissions that this isn't the case. do a search on this forum for "andison" to find the story of one very well qualified student who ended up taking a gap year because he didn't get in any where there first time around (it was in the parents forum).</p>
<p>we're telling you these things to try to help you. i see they moved this thread to the chances thread -- i don't know why, but that may affect the likelihood of you getting more college suggestions. if you don't get much response here, try reposting in either the college search forum again or the parents forum, just giving your stats and background and what you are looking for.</p>
<p>something else to consider -- more and more colleges are becoming sat optional - some of them are really fine schools -- i think connecticut college and middlebury fall in that category, but you'd have to check -- i think there's been threads here about it -- try doing a search for "sat optional." </p>
<p>here's another college to consider -- university of delaware -- public college, so less expensive than private, majority of students not from delaware so being out of state not a big issue, good size jewish community. at least from what i see, it seems to be becoming a popular public college choice for many kids -- not quite as competitive to get into as u of maryland. i don't know anything about their science or math programs though.</p>
<p>good luck</p>