I am a rising junior in highschool. I attend a charter school, that is poorly funded in an underprivileged neighborhood. I’m writing up a list of colleges that I may possibly apply to, and wanted to get an honest opinion. I want you guys to be brutally honest please.
Grades-
GPA- 97.7 (Top of my class)
PSAT 2015 - 1060
ANTICIPATED SAT- 1350 (out of 1600)
ANTICIPATED ACT- 34
NYS Regents scores-
CC English - 99
Global History- 98
CC Geometry- 77
CC Algebra- 77
Biology- 94
Earth Science- 88
My school is fairly new and doesn’t offer many AP’s But I’ll be taking AP English lit and Pre- Calc
EC-
- President of my school’s Model UN team (started sophmore year), and organized our first ever Model UN Conference
- President of my grade in Student Council
- Started the News and Journalism club at my school (It’s like BBC but for highschool lol)
- Lead SAT and ACT and Regent Tutor groups for other students at my school
- Did HPREP at Weill Cornell Medical College
- Conducted research at Albert Einstein Medical College for a Summer.
- Planning on Starting another club that is geared towards empowering the females in my school (There is already one for the males, and I’m a feminist lol)
- I am apart of the Upward Bound Math and Science Program and Bronx Community College
- I am also a Teachers Cadet for Global History
It’s not much, but I plan on taking more leadership roles Junior and Senior year. My household income is <23,000, I am also an immigrant from Guinea. I’m planning on going pre-med and double majoring in Poli-sci and International health.
The colleges that I am interested in applying to are:
Georgetown University
City College of New York
Rutgers University
New Rochelle University
University of North Carolina
Syracuse University
Barnard College
Amherst college
Stony Brook University
SUNY Buffalo
Can you guys match me? or give suggestions on other Universities?
Run the Supermatch tool on the left side of this page.
Just so you know, an ACT score of 34 translates into an SAT score of 1530, An SAT score of 1350 translates into an ACT score of 28 or 29.
Look into Questbridge - you may be a perfect candidate.
Your “anticipated” scores don’t seem realistic given the results posted. Half of the colleges on your list are high reaches. With the PSAT as an indicator of how you’ll do on the SAT, you might want to focus on the ACT. Apply for Questbridge as a prior post states, and any other mentorship program you can find. Test optional schools would also be worth looking into. You are right to focus on at least one women’s college, but Barnard is extremely competitive. Mount Holyoke is test optional and offers amazing academics. Beware- Given your urban upbringing a rural setting might come as a shock! To get great financial aid you will need to be one of the top applicants, or for the public schools be an in state resident. Good luck, and post on your progress.
I fail to see how you anticipated an SAT score of 1350 after a score of 1050 on the PSAT. Also don’t understand how you predicted an ACT of 34.
You have great EC’s in my opinion, and a stellar GPA! You have a good balance of matches and reaches 
Georgetown University: Reach
City College of New York: Match//High Match
Rutgers University: Low Match, can be a safety if you get the scores up
New Rochelle University: Safety
University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill? Wilmington? Greensboro?
Syracuse University: Low Match
Barnard College: Reach
Amherst college: Reach
Stony Brook University: Low Match
SUNY Buffalo: Low Match/Safety
Let me rephrase, those SAT/ ACT scores are the ones I hope to get. Maybe It’ll happen maybe it won’t who knows. But aside from that and regarding the rest of the details in the thread do you guys have any universities in mind that’d be matches?
@LushLillies UNC at Chapel Hill
@hipsterical “Let me rephrase, those SAT/ ACT scores are the ones I hope to get. Maybe It’ll happen maybe it won’t who knows.”
As long as you understand that the ACT score you hope to get is significantly higher and rarer than the SAT score you hope to get.
And both are significantly better than your PSAT would indicate.