<p>EXTRA - CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
Voluntary work at Primary school
Voluntary work at hospice
play violin
senior choir
orchestra
performing arts committee
charity fundraising
teach dance to younger kids
perform with my own dance group
book club</p>
<p>i'm hoping to apply to:
princeton
yale
stanford
maryland - college park
ucla
berkeley
brown/pepperdine</p>
<p>Am i setting my sights too high? please tell me because the whole college system is so foreign to me that i really can't figure out what i should be doing to prepare myself.</p>
<p>Do you have a GPA or something? That + SAT scores is the biggest factor in college admissions.</p>
<p>I've heard of A-levels, but don't know how American schools take that into weight, because we don't have those over here. Maybe they don't look at them at all? Cs & Ds are never good.</p>
<p>I think you are setting your sites a little high. Your SAT scores are good, but Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Brown expects 700+ Many applicants have well over 2200+. Also many applicants have straight A's. Ivies are the most selective universities in the nations, and admissions are even more competitive for internationals, or so I hear.</p>
<p>UCLA and Berkeley are very selective, as well.</p>
<p>I think you have a very good chance at UMD and maybe Pepperdine.</p>
<p>Given your SAT scores, you are setting your sights way too high. Here's a list of good American colleges that would be more on your level:</p>
<p>Kenyon
Connecticut College
Boston College
University of Richmond
Univ. of Rochester
NYU
Lehigh
Case Western
University of Michigan
Trinity
Bucknell
UCLA
Dickinson College
Gettysburg College
Lafeyette
Franklin and Marshall
College of NJ
Sarah Lawrence
Union
Skidmore
U of C San Diego
Syracuse
Penn State</p>
<p>The one's toward the top of the list are more selective. The one's toward the bottom less so. From your ECs, my guess is you're arts/dance oriented. If that's the case, you might want to take a real close look at Sarah Lawrence, Skidmore, Kenyon, and maybe Connecticut College.</p>
<p>Uh, no. For Northwestern, UChicago, and William and Mary you need stats nearly as strong as the Ivies, and for Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, and Dartmouth you need, in general, at least 2200+ SATs, a GPA of at least 3.8 (out of 4), and a class rank in the top 5%. OP doesn't come close. Boston U, on the other hand, is on amandaokoli's level and is certainly a possibility.</p>
<p>i totally understand what you guys are saying but i'm so confused, a friend of mine has pretty much the same english a-level grades as me and a lower SAT score (in the 1900's) and she got into stanford...</p>
<p>financially and honestly, there is no point in me going to america if i can't get into a top uni...i'm not being pompous, i'm just being frank 'cause its decision-making time and i need to be honest with myself and know whether i should go on and do the SAT II and apply to america or stay here....</p>
<p>again, your feedback is much appreciated... :)</p>
<p>well then apply to whatever schools you like in the US and if you don't get in then go to school in England. Just out of curiosity, are your scores good enough to get you into Cambridge/Oxford?</p>