<p>I am a senior who has applied to 4 colleges and I am confident with my GPA but not my test scores. I am unable to retake the test because the deadlines for college applications have passed and they will not receive the scores in time. I really need people's opinions on whether or not I should be worried. I have taken the SAT twice and the ACT once, and my pretty embarrassing scores are:</p>
<p>SAT Composite: 1640
-Math: 570
-Reading: 500 (yikes, I know)
-Writing: 570</p>
<p>ACT Composite: 24
-Math: 25
-English: 25
-Writing: 9/12</p>
<p>GPA (Does NOT include any of my senior year grades)
Unweighted GPA: 3.67
Weighted GPA: 3.86</p>
<p>Unfortunately for me, my parents never let me take SAT classes or receive a tutor for help, so I don't think that helped me at all. This being said, before I took the ACT, I borrowed my friends book to try and guide myself through the process and I guess I didn't do a very good job.</p>
<p>My concern is I am not going to get in to the schools I've applied to, and I am not trying to make this a "chances" thread, but I have applied to 3 big state schools (Virginia Tech, University of South Carolina, University of Tennessee.) Is this low SAT in the long run going to kill me? Can you guys tell me if I need to maybe apply to any smaller schools? This first semester of my senior year I have received all As with AP classes, so I really hope the colleges can see that and see that I am trying my best to overpower my low scores.</p>
<p>Depends if the major is impacted or not</p>
<p>You can look up the Common Data Set for each school to see how you compare to the admitted students from last year. Section C7 shows the weighting each element gets in admission, section C9 shows grades and scores. You do know your family would be paying an OOS premium for USC and UT, right? The COA for an OOS student is ~$40K/year for each.</p>
<p>Yes, I am fully aware, hence why I applied Early Decision (binding) to Virginia Tech and was deferred, primarily the main reason this thread was even posted. Plus I would apply for financial aid and I am not ignorant when it comes to the OOS cost.</p>
<p>Well, worrying’s not going to do anything, so just hope for the best. Maybe apply to a safety school.</p>
<p>As an out of state student your FA at USC and UT would be a $5500 direct student loan and an option for your parents to take out loans. If you are very low income you might also get up to $6K in a Pell Grant. That’s it.</p>
<p>Have you been accepted somewhere that you could go? If not you should try and find a safety school that you know for sure that you will get into just in case and apply there.</p>
<p>I plan on applying to an extreme safety if I am not admitted early action to JMU next week. But as for the people trying to bring up the money issue on the out of state schools…I never said my parents could not afford the prep classes, they just never believed in them or wanted me to do them. So as the topic of this thread states, this is about my scores and if applying to safety schools is definitely necessary rather than talk about what I have to be paying to attend these places out of my state…so if we could please refrain from trying to refer to all the costs and payments that would be awesome.</p>