Final Chance before deadlines

<p>SAT Superscored: CR 700, M 760, W 630 (writing isn't considered in most of the schools)
SATII: MLII 670, Physics 660, USH 610; PENDING SCORES, sure of minimum MII 730
GPA: 3.85 W, 3.65 UW, Rank, 32/265
AP's: (Junior) Calc AB, USH, English Language, Physics B
(Senior) Lit, Chem, Physics C Mechanics, Physics C E&M
EC's: 748 community service hours assisting underprivileged youth, enriching their school education, etc etc, nothing I'm interested in long term
Taking Georgetown class in between HS classes, Cacl 1, will get an A with 77 on final
Parent make 60k combined, 6 household members, parent and sibling born in Vietnam, father served, prisoner of war 8 years, (as an aside, Vietnamese should not be grouped into the stereotypical Asian as we are not as developed a nation as the Japanese, Chinese, or Koreans, when will people learn this?)
I was born in US
Georgetown
Cornell
Hopkins
George Washington
University of Maryland- College Park
American</p>

<p>Tebowing for help</p>

<p>your SAT is good, but your class rank will hurt you. the sweet spot is to be top 5% of your class for cornell, but you could still get in. </p>

<p>in general, though, GPA/ class rank >> SAT for college admissions at Ivies. So, I wouldn’t say you have that strong of a chance unfortunately</p>

<p>Cornell/ Georgetown/ JHU - reach. Everything else on your list - you will get in.</p>

<p>I don’t know how accurate CollegeBoard’s college search is, or what it represents, but the only school that places class rank as a “very important” factor is Georgetown, and every other school has it as “important”, in which standardized scores are the the former. If your information is correct, I have been misled throughout the past months, and thanks for the reality check either way.</p>

<p>From my impression, SAT scores don’t matter once you hit 2200 mark or so at Ivies. Cornell won’t give much boost to someone with 2300, over another applicant with 2200, etc.</p>

<p>What that means is that they only check if you scored high enough on SAT and really don’t care after that. Your GPA, class rank, and course selection as a combined unit account for more than SAT, by a mile. </p>

<p>Although I am no expert, from my observation so far, I would venture to guess the following regarding how much each criterion is worth to college application: Class rank/ GPA = 50% of application, SAT = 25% of application, essays/ recs/ extra curriculars = remaining 25% of application.</p>