<p>Daughter is a white female, goes to a low-performing high school who mostly sends kids to Cal State, UC, and Community College. She wants to go to a private, small, college in Southern California. Here are her stats (I will condense it as much as possible):</p>
<p>GPA 4.3 Unweighted 4.0 Weighted
Class Rank: 10 out of 469</p>
<p>Superscored SAT score: 1950
SAT Tests:
Jan 09 CR 680 M 560 W 590
Mar 09 CR 800 M 560 W 570
SAT II Tests:
US History June 2009 660<br>
Literature October 09 </p>
<p>EC's
Senior Class Treasurer (was Jr Class Treasurer as well)
Yearbook Copy Editor
CSF Treasurer
Gay-Straight Alliance President, founding officer
Drama Club - President, Vice-President, Secretary
For 9, 10, 11, & 12th grades she was in at least 7 clubs and an officer in at least 4 each year. </p>
<p>Drama - acted and was/is assistant director in several plays</p>
<p>Over 350 hours community service</p>
<p>Various local and regional academic and community service awards all 4 years.<br>
She has won speech contests and academic decathalon awards</p>
<p>Schools:</p>
<p>Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Scripps
Whittier College
University of La Verne
Occidental
Pepperdine
University of San Diego</p>
<p>If you have any other SoCal school recommendations I would appreciate it.</p>
<p>She also is taking 3 AP classes this year (Eng Lit, Stats, & Chemistry) and has taken 3 other AP classes - AP Eng Language (5)(she was the only one at her school to get a 5 in Eng last year), AP USH (3), & AP Bio in 10th grade (1)</p>
<p>Pomona- reach
Claremont McKenna- reach
Scripps- reach
Whittier College- not sure
University of La Verne- match
Occidental- low reach
Pepperdine- match
University of San Diego- safety</p>
<p>I suggest Chapman, Redlands and LMU as good matches that she would probably be happy attending.
The Claremont Colleges are highly competitive, so I would say it’s a reach for anyone, but you should still try.</p>
<p>Pomona-R
Claremont McKenna-R
Scripps-R/M
Whittier College-S
University of La Verne
Occidental-M
Pepperdine-R/M</p>
<p>This is a har one. The 800CR is exceptional, but the scores in the 500s really complicate things. If she can bring these even into the low 600s, she’d look much stronger for Scripps/Oxy/Pepperdine.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. I agree that the difference in her SAT scores makes it very difficult to decide on where she is in the range of schools. We have been just taking the math score and comparing it to schools, and just hoping the CR score gives her a bump. hmom, my daughter is done taking the SAT I. She was tutored in Math between the two tests and feels like this is the best she can do.</p>