<p>Gender: Male
From: NYC
Need Financial Aid: Yes</p>
<p>Applying to Tufts ED for International Relations, am Serbian and speak it fluently</p>
<p>GPA: I can't find a consistent GPA to 4.0 converter but I have a 93.0 unweighted
Rigor of high school record: All honor classes (i think school is ranked top 25 in best high schools of US), 1 AP a year
Class Rank: not sure yet, but definitely top quarter, probably top 10%</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT- 680,680,680 not sending that in though
ACT- 30 (35 english, 31 math, 30 reading, 24 science :/ but i'm not doing science!)</p>
<p>Leadership/E.C.
- Captain of Varsity Wrestling Team
- Did Tae Kwon Do for 10 years, state champion, and Tufts has a TKD team :D
- A lot of the honor societies, NHS, Cum Laude, NYSSHS
- Volunteer at Political Office for guy running for state assembly
- Do MMA
- Class Senator - 4 years
- This is just off the top of my head, there is more though
- I never opened an orphanage in India though so... :(</p>
<p>this is just a basic thing, I know my rec is gonna rock and so is the essay, I just want some opinions. Please make me feel better! :D</p>
<p>@ILoveMyMom
Are you serious? Well, not zero for me!</p>
<p>Based on your stats , I can see your GPA is excellent but your SATs are a bit low for tufts . Good ECs - shows dedication which colleges prefer OVER building an orphanage
Tufts accepts 27% of applicants and you will have a solid chance to get in if you write good essays and have great teacher recs. </p>
<p>A tip? If you want to SURELY impress them …don’t apply ED. I know its your dream school but ED applicants are VERY strong with often perfect SAT scores </p>
<p>Try to apply regular descision so you look stronger and use the time to either raise the SAT or ACT!!! I promise you you’ll excel at this time with tufts admissions ;-)</p>
<p>Good luck and don’t worry ;-)</p>
<p>Tufts is my first choice too by the way! Hope to see you there lol :)</p>
<p>man this guy scared the crap out of me haha, thanks ilove</p>
<p>and thanks to the rest of you guys for the info! java my essay will be on an autistic boy i basically tutored while being an instructor in Tae Kwon Do :)</p>
<p>and good luck desi in getting into tufts! I really hope we can both get in</p>
<p>anyone else with any comments/suggestions? and also I still think I’m applying ED because that seems like the only way admissions can get to my rec and essays and such</p>
<p>First off, thanks for posting on my thread! I appreciate it.
My good friend goes to tufts, and he got in full scholarship with a 2280 on the SAT and a 3.8 GPA. So, you definitely have a shot grade-wise. And I’m sure that your essay about instructing the autistic boy will be great impetus towards the admission officer accepting you. Overall, I think you have a decent chance where you stand now, but I would retake the SAT on Oct 1 since that is really the only thing that you can control now with less that 2 months till ED.</p>
<p>np man, these types of things take my mind of pressing matters like “what if i don’t get into college?” :D</p>
<p>apparently Tufts accepts either SAT and 2 SAT IIs, or the ACT, so im probably just going to be sending the ACT on over (plus I haven’t taken any SAT IIs)</p>
<p>also my sister said they don’t like seeing too much stuff like extra information so i’ll keep all the stats brief for them but informative</p>
<p>I disagree with DesiCollegeGirl and think you should def apply ED. If you know thats where you want to go it makes complete sense to apply early. And according to statistics it DOES help your chance. If they won’t accept you early when you show commitment to the school why would they admit you later? If you apply regular they are getting more qualified people using it as more of a likley/safety school so you would be overlooked more likley. there is also a smaller pool ED so they can concentrate on your app more. I think you actually have a shot. your standardized test scores are lower, but everything else seems on par. Early will help. Good luck!</p>
