<p>OP, What kind of courses are you taking and where do kids go from your high school? If your school regularly sends A students to top schools or you think your SAT scores are not in line with your abilities, you may want to take the ACT and see if you’re competitive for additional schools. Some private NY schools use HEOP money in addition to their own financial funds-- but you have to be competitive for those schools.</p>
<p>What about looking at test optional schools? Your GPA is not that bad.</p>
<p>Here is a list from fairtest.org: [SAT/ACT</a> Optional 4-Year Universities | FairTest](<a href=“http://fairtest.org/university/optional]SAT/ACT”>ACT/SAT Optional List - Fairtest)</p>
<p>You will probably also want to look at schools that meet 100% demonstrated need.</p>
<p>People from my school generally gets on average of 1500-1600 SAT scores with writing. Very few people get into top schools like Yale, Princeton, Columbia etc. Do you think its possible if i can replace my low SAT CR score with a high ACT english score? I might score lower on the ACT math and other things in the ACT.</p>
<p>@mom6350: I recommend schools in my state (NY) and not far from where my home is. None of the schools on that list is from NY. Like maybe one is from NY but that’s really far.</p>
<p>oh i took AP classes my junior year. (chemistry and BC calc). Senior year i’m going to take more APs… Freshmen year, i took some honors.</p>
<p>Usually, schools look at one whole score and don’t pick and choose parts of each test (ACT or SAT). That said, one of my kids scored a lot better on the ACT than the SAT (about the equivalent of 300-400 points).</p>
<p>Schools either look at all your ACT subscores or all your SAT subscores–they won’t mix and match scores. (ACT and SAT have different formats so really aren’t interchangable.)</p>
<p>The ACT has 3 sections that may be a problem for you since you had problems with SAT CR: English (grammar, usage, punctuation, sentence structure, rhetorical construction); reading (reading comprehension, vocabulary); science (which is mostly reading comprehension, but of science information together with some graph reading)</p>
<p>I took the SATs like twice already and my plan was to take it 3 times. and study for each section… It turns out i’m studying the CR last and will retake in November… Now thatt i’m getting suggestions on taking the ACT, i haven’t studied for ACT and i’m confused if i should continue studying for the CR or just forget about the SAT and start studying for the ACT…</p>
<p>SAT Optional Schools in NY</p>
<p>Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid Far Rockaway NY
Berkeley College White Plains NY
Berkeley College of New York City New York NY
Beth HaMedrahs Shaarei Yosher Brooklyn NY
Beth HaTalmud Rabbinical College Brooklyn NY
Boricua College New York NY
Briarcliffe College Bethpage NY
Cazenovia College Cazenovia NY
Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim-Lebavitch Brooklyn NY
College of New Rochelle: School of New Resources New Rochelle NY
College of Saint Rose Albany NY
Culinary Institute of America Hyde Park NY
Daemen College Amherst NY
Darkei Noam Rabbinical College Brooklyn NY
DeVry Institute of Technology, New York3, 7 New York NY
Dowling College Oakdale NY
Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester Rochester NY
Excelsior College7 Albany NY
Fashion Institute of Technology New York NY
Five Towns College7 Dix Hills NY
Friends World Program of Long Island University Brooklyn NY
Globe Institute of Technology 6 New York NY
Hamilton College5 Clinton NY
Hartwick College
[Hartwick-Home[/url</a>]
Oneonta NY
Hilbert College
[url=<a href=“http://www.hilbert.edu%5DHilbert”>http://www.hilbert.edu]Hilbert</a> College](<a href=“http://www.hartwick.edu/]Hartwick-Home[/url”>http://www.hartwick.edu/)
Hamburg NY
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
[HWS</a> Homepage](<a href=“http://www.hws.edu%5DHWS”>http://www.hws.edu)
Geneva NY
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary Jordanville NY
Ithaca College Ithaca NY
JFK University Orinda NY
John Jay College of Criminal (CUNY) New York NY
Juilliard School New York NY
Kehilath Yakov Rabbinical Seminary Brooklyn NY
Keuka College Keuka Park NY
Kol Yaakov Torah Center Monsey NY
Machzikei Hadath Rabbinical College Brooklyn NY
Manhattan School of Music New York NY
Manhattanville College Purchase NY
Marist College Poughkeepsie NY
Medaille College Buffalo NY
Medgar Evers College (CUNY)4 Brooklyn NY
Mercy College Dobbs Ferry NY
Mesivta of Eastern Pkwy Rabbinical Seminary Brooklyn NY
Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem of America New York NY
Mesivta Torah Vodaath Seminary Brooklyn NY
Metropolitan College of New York 6 New York NY
Mirrer Yeshiva Brooklyn NY
Monroe College New York NY
Nazareth College
[Homepage</a> — Nazareth College Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“www.naz.edu :: A-Z Index”>http://www.naz.edu/dept/admissions/index.cfm)
Rochester NY
New School4 New York NY
New York City College of Technology (CUNY) Brooklyn NY
New York School of Interior Design New York NY
New York University5 New York NY
Ohr HaMeir Theological Seminary Courtland Manor NY
Ohr Somayach-Tanenbaum Ed. Center Monsey NY
Plaza College New York NY
Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Edison NY
Rabbinical Academy Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin Brooklyn NY
Rabbinical College Beth Shraga Monsey NY
Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnci Zion Brooklyn NY
Rabbinical College Ch’san Sofer Brooklyn NY
Rabbinical College of Long Island Long Island NY
Rabbinical College of Ohr Shimon Yisroel Brooklyn NY
Rabbinical Seminary Adas Yereim Brooklyn NY
Rabbinical Seminary M’kor Chaim Brooklyn NY
Rabbinical Seminary of America Forest Hills NY
Russell Sage College Troy NY
Sage College of Albany Albany NY
Saint Lawrence University
[St</a>. Lawrence University](<a href=“http://www.stlawu.edu%5DSt”>http://www.stlawu.edu)
Canton NY
Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville NY
School of the Visual Arts1 New York NY
Shor Yoshuv Rabbinical College Far Rockaway NY
State U of NY/Empire State College Saratoga Springs NY
State University of New York - Potsdam Potsdam NY
SUNY College of Technology-Delhi Delhi NY
Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York Rochester NY
Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah Brooklyn NY
Torah Temimah Talmudical Seminary Brooklyn NY
Touro College4 New York NY
Union College Schenectady NY
United Talmudical Seminary Brooklyn NY
University of the State of NY/Excelsior College Albany NY
Utica College4
[Welcome</a> to Utica College](<a href=“http://www.utica.edu%5DWelcome”>http://www.utica.edu)
Utica NY
Villa Maria College Buffalo NY
Wagner College Staten Island NY
Yeshiva and Kolel Harbotzas Torah Brooklyn NY
Yeshiva D’Monsey Rabbinical College Monsey NY
Yeshiva Derech Chaim Brooklyn NY
Yeshiva Gedolah Imrei Yosef D’Spinka Brooklyn NY
Yeshiva Karlin Stolin Brooklyn NY
Yeshiva Mikdash Melech Brooklyn NY
Yeshiva of Nitra Mt. Kisco NY
Yeshiva of the Telshe Alumni Riverdale NY
Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah Talmudic Kew Gardens NY
Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland Suffern NY
Yeshiva Viznitz Monsey NY
Yeshivas Novominsk Brooklyn NY
Yeshivath Zichron Moshe South Fallsburg NY</p>
<p>Oh wow. thanks for the list of schools! (:</p>
<p>NYU, Ithaca College, and Wagner college is optional? i don’t believe that. lol</p>
<p>Any of these have chemical engineering programs? or anything related to that?</p>
<p>If you notice, there’s a code next to NYU: 5, so there are conditions.</p>
<p>This is from NYU’s admissions page: </p>
<p>To be eligible for admission, applicants are expected to submit results from one of the following testing options:</p>
<pre><code>The SAT Reasoning Test; or
The ACT with Writing Test; or
Three SAT Subject Test scores; or
Three AP exam scores; or
The International Baccalaureate Diploma; or
Three IB higher-level exam scores (if you are not an IB Diploma candidate); or
Results from a nationally accredited exam that is considered locally to signify the completion of secondary education and is administered independently of the student’s school.
</code></pre>
<p>Note: Students who submit SAT Subject Test, AP, or IB scores (for students not submitting an IB Diploma) must submit: one literature or humanities score; one math or science score; and a score from one test of the student’s choice in any subject. For applicants to the Stern School of Business, one of these exams must be in mathematics.</p>
<p>OP, I guess you didn’t actually look at the Fair Test site that two people provided links to. At some point you’ll have to start doing some of your own research instead of waiting to be spoon fed here.</p>
<p>since the OP needs complete full aid, then many of these test optional schools won’t work because they don’t give much/any aid.</p>
<p>The student needs a carefully planned list that deals with his limitations…very low income and low SATs. That rarely means that the student will have many options.</p>
<p>The OP might benefit from reading this thread for ideas: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/291483-update-what-i-learned-about-free-ride-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/291483-update-what-i-learned-about-free-ride-scholarships.html</a></p>
<p>I have no idea where you get these links from. and thanks ^</p>
<p>It’s nice that you put together this list, but many if not most of the schools on it are irrelevant to the poster, unless he wants to study torah.</p>
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<p>This. You’ve been given several sites to look at and enough information that you can look up what you need on your own.</p>
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<p>If you don’t like the list, as posted, please feel free to edit and repost it yourself.</p>