<p>I am a resident in Georgia and have a GPA of 3.9 (unweighted) and a 4.3 weighted. I will be finishing my senior year having taken 6 ap's total. I am the salutatorian of my class as well and president of the beta club and am vice president of many clubs. </p>
<p>I have been named all state once and all region twice in basketball. </p>
<p>I volunteer every summer at a kids summer camp for more than 100 hours each summer</p>
<p>My sat score (which I plan to take again) is 1820</p>
<p>680-math
540- reading
600-writing</p>
<p>Act isnt good good besides my 29s in both math and science but ill take it again.
Please tell me my chances</p>
<p>P.s I plan on studying biomedical engineering</p>
<p>If participating in literary for quartet helps I did that to.</p>
<p>Am also African American if that helps ha</p>
<p>For Georgia Tech – GPA is excellent; class rank is perfect; EC’s ok and sports experience excellent. However, your SAT is very low for an engineering major and your ACT is also low but not as bad as the SAT. </p>
<p>Your only issue is your standardized test scores and being African American will not solve that. Here is your game plan as we went through the same thing. My kid went from a 690 in the SAT 2 Math subject test to a 790 and he went from a 25 in English on the ACT to a 34 by hiring a qualified tutoring agency to get him through the tests. We eventually set aside the SAT1 results completely and focused on the ACT and the SAT 2 subject tests. It turned out that this was the best thing we could have done.</p>
<p>With regards to the tutoring agency – find one that has an outstanding reputation and a long track record. Interview the tutors themselves and ask what their scores were on the exams and make sure that you get testimonials from others who used the service. It is completely worth the money it will cost. My kid is also an engineer and got into every program that he was interested in except for one. He had 7 top schools to choose from as a result. His first try was completely mediocre on both the SAT and ACT. He ended up with overall scores in the top 1% nationally (99th percentile).</p>
<p>So, get started looking for a tutor. Go to your school counselor (yes, even though it is summer still call the school) and ask if any tutoring services offer students from your school discounts. Out here in California the Princeton Review offers comprehensive 25 session courses for $600 – about half their regular price to kids in our school district. We did that and hired a special tutor for specific subjects on top of that as well.</p>
<p>The results? He got into 5 top UC’s including UCLA and UCSD for engineering (both schools have single digit acceptance rates – for example UCLA had 11,000 applicants for only 600 spots in their engineering program) and offers to both California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and its sister school in Pomona. Ultimatley, we like you believe in the polytechnic teaching methodology and he chose Cal Poly SLO. He loves it.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech has surprisingly reasonable entrance criteria for a globally ranked top tier school. You do not need to have MIT level scores to get in. But you do need scores better than what you have now. If you are financially destitute and cannot afford a tutor, negotiate with them. If that will not work, ask them for self-study guide recommendations.</p>
<p>However, this is so important that I would ask for money form all your relatives and even hold a fund raiser to get the money for a tutor. Georgia Tech could change you life. Also, if you can get your scores up above 700 in every subject and over 31 in Math and English on the ACT, there are many schools that will offer you a full ride.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thank you ill are what I can do… I need as many opinions as I can get</p>