<p>Your GPA is good but not phenomenal (your course work isn’t too difficult either) and if your ECs are really as good as you make them out to be, you should be fine at DePaul. GPA is generally valued more than test scores.
Still, like others said if your SAT doesn’t match up to the caliber of your GPA and colleges have no past info on your school, they have no way of knowing whether there was some inflation or not. Your opinion on that matter doesn’t count for squat.
You said you had no thoughts about taking the SAT a 3rd time but I would advise you to do so.
Here are my tips for the three sections:
CR: You said you were a fast reader but you don’t fully understand the passage. Bluntly put, for cases like this, its a matter of focus. I, too, am a fast reader; but given a passage that doesn’t interest me, I find myself having read the entire passage without a clue on what it was about. The day of, for every CR passage, I could have burned through the test book I was glaring at it so hard. Other than focusing the only thing you can do is practice, practice, and practice some more.
Math: You said you were taking Calc senior year so I assume you have some background in precalc and have taken Alg II and Geometry. If you took those courses and fully understood the topics, the only problem you may have in the math section is making mistakes or running out of time. In this case, all there is for you is practice and time management. Never forget to double check your answers.
Writing: Your essay score is fine so I assume you’re a decent writer. This section should be easy to improve then. The writing section recycles a certain number of tricks and traps. If you can recognize all of them, your scores should improve dramatically. Other than that practice using proper grammar in normal conversation as well as on the computer. It keeps you in practice.
This was my objective advice.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I would advise you to be a bit more polite in your response to the people on this thread. Save for a few, most of the people here are here to give you their take on your situation, which you asked for in making this thread altogether. They’re just giving you their two cents worth and responding with attitude, even if it isn’t a response you wanted, is rude.</p>