<p>Hi everyone, </p>
<p>I got a 2200 for my SATI (760 reading, 720 math and 720 writing). I made 2 mistakes for writing, but screwed up badly on my essay (8/12).
My percentage average is 92-94ish</p>
<p>I'm taking IB, and I got a predicted for my grade 11 year of a 38to41+bonus. </p>
<p>I haven't taken any SATIIs yet, but I'm planning to take Math II and Lit. </p>
<p>I would like to go into political sciences, or anything that would allow a transfer to law in grad school. </p>
<p>My prospective schools are the following:
Columbia
NYU
Harvard
Yale
UC Berkeley </p>
<p>My extracurriculars are pretty diverse, e.g. I play badminton (ranked 34th provincially. I'm from BC, canada), play piano (level 10), but there are two projects that I am very proud of: </p>
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<li><p>I was president of an organization called YouthVOC, which holds an annual event each year at a mall in our area, hosting many different organizations that provide opportunities for youth to volunteer abroad or locally. It's relatively new, and I was holding the position for only the second time, and the first time as official elected leader. </p></li>
<li><p>I started a Model United Nations on the national scale, hosting 300-400 people from all over Canada and from the States for 3 days at a hotel to debate current world issues. </p></li>
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<p>I guess my questions are, should I retake my SATs? Are my extracurriculars good enough to make up the OK score? What are my chances? Thanks a lot in advance.</p>
<p>I’m going you assume that your percent average is your GPA?
That being said, Ivies are very frequently declining students with straight A+s and 2400 SATs. They look A LOT at extracurriculars.<br>
Unless your not specifying your EC’s enough it looks like you’ve got about only 4. Maybe your extremely involved in them. Granted the ECs you have are definitely good. But in my honest opinion, for you to be a solid runner for any of the Ivies, you should have MORE ECs and/or be more involved in them. If you do that, you might have a chance because your scores are very good.</p>
<p>Just my honest opinion. Perhaps you can chance me back?</p>
<p>My ECs are plenty. I didn’t want to list everything because they don’t really correspond with my career interest, and look very scattered and disjunct.
- Volunteer at local soup kitchen, 300hours+
- Volunteer at Free Geek Vancouver, 200 hours+
- Member of Amnesty International club
- Member of school Multicultural club
- School badminton team captain
- Duke of Edinburgh Bronze medal
I can list more, but I think you get the picture?</p>
<p>The percentages are also very different for IB courses as opposed to normal GPA. Normally IB students’ percentages are not taken into effect for schools, instead, our IB grades are, which are out of 45 points, 3 of which are bonus. </p>
<p>And sure!</p>
<p>First off, people with 2400 SAT almost never get rejected, don’t listen to that… Secondly, retake the SAT abd aim for 2300+… You might get in at some however that list is a very ambitious one.</p>