<p>Rising senior. Indian female. I'm planning on applying to Princeton, Upenn, Columbia, Pennstate(honors college), haverford, swarthmore, university of Pittsburgh, annd drexel with the intention of going pre-med</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>[ *] SAT I:2150(retaking in october)
[ *] ACT:32
[ *] SAT II:740 on chem and physics, 760 on math 2
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):idk about unweighted but i have a 4.77 out of 5
[ *] Rank :1 (but there are like 40 number ones at my school)
[ *] AP :6 total:5 on chem, lang, calcs AB and BC...4 on physics and micro</p>
<p>[ *] Awards: questbridge college prep scholar and ap scholar with distinction i guess...nothing else aside from school awards</p>
<p>[ *] Extracurriculars : started a gender equality club at my school so founder and president
newspaper(editor)
national honor society(secretary)
reading olympics(captain)
spanish honor society
quill and scroll honor society </p>
<p>[ *] Job/Work Experience:i was a paid chem tutor for a few months
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:about 100 at the local library
[ *] Summer Activities: a trip to india( life-changing experience) and volunteering</p>
<p>I know i'm nothing special but i would love some feedback. Thanks guys!!</p>
<p>I think ECs are weak, I only see school clubs, no real focus or depth… You’re going to need atleast a 100 point jump in the SAT to be considered for Ivies, SAT subject tests are on the low side. And how does a 4.77 GPA tie you with a ton of kids for #1? Weird system.
A trip to India/any foreign nation is an overused essay topic so be careful. You’ll get into Pitt/Drexel/Penn State. And if you really want Ivy, do ED at Cornell.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Pragya5, I’ve heard that SATs are only used as a screening tool for applicants. Students with low SAT scores are automatically eliminated without consideration for their academic achievement. However, your SAT scores are clearly within the interquartile range for many ivies (I believe that includes Harvard), so don’t worry about those. I don’t know about your extracurriculars, but your GPA, SATs, ACT, and class rank are competitive for the ivies. Keep in mind that a huge portion of the Ivy league admission process is dependent on your essays and the strength of your ECs. Of course, national and state level awards are taken far more seriously than school level awards. School level awards are sometimes left out entirely on applications because of their insignificance.
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<p>thanks for the responses guys! i understand that the ivies are difficult for anyone but i am trying to get my SAT score up by 50 points. Are both Haverford and Swarthmore looking that difficult for me? I thought i was a little more competitive for them…</p>
<p>Don’t worry about your SATs. As I’ve said before, your SATs are competitive for all of the colleges listed. After they screen out all those who have noncompetitive SATs, your SAT scores are not viewed again, unless someone somehow has the exact same ECs, GPA, and essay as you (which would be plagiarism, resulting in two rejections…). The thing about Swarthmore is that although it has only a few applicants compared to universities, it only has a few spaces. The rigor of its application review process is comparable to Georgetown, YPMS, and etc. For Haverford, I would have to disagree with Catria and say that it is a ‘High Match’. Haverford has higher admission standards than other colleges around its own rank in the USNWR list, but I doubt it’s as hard as Swarthmore, Williams, Amherst, or Pomona (abbreviated as SWAP by some CC users).
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<p>Note: SATs are not used as part of the competitive admission process for colleges with already extreme competition (e.g. Ivies, Stanford, MIT). Having a 2200 SAT versus having a 2150 SAT only helps for colleges that are a bit lower on the scale of admission rigor, who cannot necessarily just choose the most exceptional students as opposed to their current practice of choosing students with high GPAs/test scores. Colleges like UChicago, SWAP, HYPMS, and even the lower ivies (excluding Cornell) do not constantly compare SATs when choosing applicants, unlike almost every other college like UVA, UNC, and other highly competitive universities.</p>