<p>-Unweighted GPA: 3.71/4.0
-Weighted GPA: 4.373/4.72 (the weighing system at my school is really bogus...)
-Rank: 91/839
-In the top 11% of my class
-Have been taking ALL honors classes and AP classes (4 APs senior year).
-Involved in 4 extracurriculars: (as of end of senior year)
-synchronized swimming 4 years
-best buddies 1 years
-Model UN 2 years
-club for social change 3 years
-On Dean's List and Honor Roll all years in H.S. so far
-National Merit Commended Student (204 on PSAT)
-Volunteered at the library this summer, book fair...
-ACT: 33
-SAT: 1st time: 2090, 2nd time: 2070, so highest "combined" SAT is 2140
verbal: 670 and 640
math: 740 and 700
writing: 680 and 730
-SAT IIs: Math I-770, Literature-710</p>
<p>-APs (so far, up to junior year): APUSH-4, Eng lit-5, gov't-5, psych-5</p>
<p>-Asian female, speak Russian, 1st gen immigrant</p>
<p>I'd say your on the fence. Your rank is low, your SAT's are low, your ACT's are good. Your EC's look all right, they could be weaker or stronger depending on how much commmitment and how much initiative you took in them.</p>
<p>Well I'm comparing with the CDS's ACT percentiles and SAT percentiles. I'm fairly certain that each college looks at ACT/SAT scores differently, and those are estimates.</p>
<p>I've only taken the ACT and SAT subject tests so im a little biased. But since you can combine scores for the SAT, it really helps your overall score. I honestly believe that that ACT/SAT table is relating individual total composite scores. I only have a 33 on the ACT but if you combine my scores I have a 35, but schools dont care. The ACT does have a total of 4 subsections, but really!, the SAT has 3! (thats only one less). Im also almost positive that schools look at SAT and ACT scores much differently than what that table proposes.</p>
<p>O, and back to the actual subject. Yeah, you'd be on the fence. Your EC's seem a slight low, but if you're really involved in those things than you're fine. Good luck.</p>
<p>So colleges look at my combined SAT score in addition to my individual SAT scores? Cause my combined score is 2140; pretty good I think...I didn't know that...Is that better than having one SAT score of 2100 (so one would have an individual SAT score of 2100 and a combined SAT score of 2100)?</p>
<p>There's no hard and fast rule. Dartmouth may say they superscore, but in reality if someone took the SAT 3 times and got a 800-200-200, a 200-800-200, and a 200-200-800, they would definitely look at him differently than someone who took it once and got a 2400.</p>
<p>probably not in. ACT is fine but rank is not darthmouth-level unless you go to a top private high school(and I'm talking about the actual top, meaning at least 10% of the class goes to Ivies). EC's do not show leadership.</p>
<p>i heard that college superscore so that on the US News and World Report, they can report that their SAT midranges are higher. But in reality, they dont view superscores the same as single sitting score, i think...</p>
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i heard that college superscore so that on the US News and World Report, they can report that their SAT midranges are higher. But in reality, they dont view superscores the same as single sitting score, i think...
<p>I would guess there are a few things that could be better. However, "1st generation immigrant" is huge. It'd be even better if no one in the family has attended college before. To only look at the numbers -- which aren't shabby -- is to ignore recommendations and essay, which would seem valuable in this case.</p>
<p>I think there is a spot on the common app that asks about family and if they've attended college. As for the immigrant thing... although there is a place for ethnicity on the application as well, it's also why there are essays and certainly a counselor could mention it in a rec (not the teacher).</p>