<p>Your extracurricular activities are not particularly impressive, neither is your SAT score or GPA. I’m sorry, but I must be blunt. (but don’t worry, my GPA is pretty bad as well) NYU is a possibility, though, if you raise your SAT score by 300 points. It is more lenient than Columbia and Cornell.</p>
<p>Get straight A+'s this semester. I don’t know if the schools you mentioned use your senior grades in their evaluation, but several schools I looked into do.</p>
<p>And also, what TYPES of classes are you taking? AP? Honors?</p>