<p>I don't know if this belongs in the Chance Me, but whatever, don't know where else to put it.</p>
<p>Anyways, I'm curious of what you guys think about how colleges would react to my SAT scores. I got a 2210 on the test that I submitted, CR 760 M 650 W 800 essay 11. I think the math section looks horrendous, but I've just been hoping that reading and writing were high enough to sort of balance things out and indicate that I am, obviously, much stronger in English than mathematics. </p>
<p>I'm not interested in mathematics or a career that requires it AT ALL and have indicated in my personal statement and numerous supplemental/Why (insert college)? essays that history is my passion. My SAT II for US History (800) and my scores for APUSH and Euro (both 5's) well indicate this, if that makes a difference. Needless to say I will be avoiding math within my courses as much as possible.</p>
<p>How would a college react to those scores within the context of my expressed academic goals? Recoil in horror of the glaring 650 anyways? Or is the overall score enough to indicate some level of competence?</p>
<p>If you wanna do engineering, economics, business, sciences or any of those kinda subjects, then math is actually quite important, but like you said that there is no math involved whatsoever, then it shouldn’t be an issue.</p>
<p>Your other scores are great, but depending on your schools it wouldn’t hurt to retake. Most colleges that people talk about here (Ivies, Stanford, top LACs) still expect some strength in Math; a 650 is well below the 25th percentile at all of these schools. </p>
<p>It won’t hurt to retake, but don’t feel obligated to since your other scores are still very strong.</p>
<p>Thanks you guys! I didn’t apply to any Ivies or Stanford, but I’m pretty worried about how Duke is going to take into consideration that score. But it’s pretty much up in the air for the other schools I applied to, it could go either way quite easily, I feel.</p>
<p>I have a 3.88 uw gpa, about a 4.42 w, and no history EC’s except for tutoring an AP Euro student, which I didn’t mention because I had only been doing it since November 2012. I wrote about history’s general importance, its importance to me, and talked about how I want to go to Duke essentially because of their amazing history department in my Why Trinity? essay. Also, I gushed about history and discussed historical topics with the interviewer during my off-campus interview, which lasted for more than an hour and seemed to go very well.</p>
<p>OH, okay, also, how does being from central/northern California increase my chances? Hardly anyone, it seems, applies to Duke from this specific area, and I did touch on the fact that I would bring an underrepresented perspective to the Duke campus.</p>
<p>As long as it looks reachable at this point in time, that’s good enough for me. It is truly out of my hands and I’m torturing myself by questioning my chances.</p>
<p>I think that because Duke receives a lot of applications from Californian students, regional differences come into play. I’d guess that most of the Californian applicants probably come from southern California, because it’s more heavily populated. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part, haha.</p>