Please, any advice for unintelligent international student...

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<p>I REALLY want to attend Tufts, but I'm pretty sure my SATs are dead.
I read most of the threads here, and am wondering Early Decision can be any help for me... (yes, I need to rush if I change RD to ED)</p>

<p>I know I'm reckless, but I just can't stand and wait until admissions say they don't accept me. I should do everything I can.
Someone kind, please give me any suggestion.</p>

<p>SAT: Reading480 Math690 Writing550</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: MUN, Mondialogo School Contest, study tour in Sweden, tennis club(10, 11th), volunteer in local NPO(work camp in the Philippines etc), modern dance(12years), Japanese tea ceremony(9years), classic piano(10years)</p>

<p>Thanks for advice!!!!!</p>

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<p>If you have a really good GPA and class rank, then your SATs might not hurt you as much. Regardless, I don't think you'd get into Tufts RD; and it's still a reach ED II.</p>

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<p>Thank you, lolabelle.
Actually my GPA is 4.7 and I'm one of the top students in my school(according to the teachers)
I'm preparing the ducument for EDⅡ.
Should I write a letter or something?</p>

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<p>Well then if you are in the top 5% or so of your class, applying ED's well worth it --hopefully your commitment to Tufts will overshadow your medicore SAT scores. </p>

<p>Write a letter for what?</p>

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<p>for telling them my passion for Tufts.</p>

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<p>That's part of the application - the "Why Tufts?" essay. You also have to give a Why ED essay.</p>

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<p>sorry, but i think that 480 kills you</p>

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<p>lolabelle - all right. I'll do my best of best to write why ED stuff
Thanks a lot for your response!</p>

<p>55 - Thank you for your HONEST opinion. If I were you, I would say the same thing.</p>

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<p>Yeah the 480 is really a bummer. You should make up a list of schools that don't take SATs.. places like Middlebury, etc.</p>

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<p>Middlebury does require standardized tests, although not necessarily the SAT I. You'd need 3 SAT IIs, APs, IBs, or ACT. </p>

<p>Bowdoin doesn't require standardized test scores at all.</p>

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<p>"You should make up a list of schools that don't take SATs"</p>

<p>Done ;)</p>

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<p>Youwe,</p>

<p>Is English your second language?</p>

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<p>a 550 for an international student actually isn't that bad. Do you have any SAT IIs? I don't know how things are looking with that 480 though..you can keep your fingers crossed :)</p>

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<p>I am an intl student and my SATs were all over 700. As were all of my friends' who applied to similar schools. Being an intl student is no excuse.</p>

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<p>Forget about it dude, that's well below the average for every state school I can think of. I"m sorry yo, you need to get it together, put in some hard two years of work at whatever school you end up and then maybe, MAYBE you'd have a chance of getting into Tufts.</p>

<p>No sense sugar coating it like these frauds would. They're outright criminals they are. They have the genetics and the morality of malicious criminals and they will say anything, ANYTHING that'll get you to drop your $65 on that Tufts applications. Twisted criminals is all they are. Morally repugnant people, they don't care, all they care about is boosting Tuft's prestige. </p>

<p>Avoid them like the AIDS that they truly are.</p>

<p>I'll let you know right now you haven't a ghost of a chance of getting in here. IF you waste money on that application I hope you actually earned it yourself.</p>

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<p>RBAY: Uncalled for.</p>

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<p>Selective Private Colleges
That Do Not Require the SAT I or ACT Scores
As of December 23, 2006</p>

<ol>
<li> Antioch College</li>
<li> Bard College</li>
<li> Bates College</li>
<li> Bowdoin College</li>
<li> Connecticut College</li>
<li> Dickinson College</li>
<li> Franklin and Marshall College</li>
<li> Goddard College</li>
<li> Hartwick College </li>
<li>Holy Cross College</li>
<li>Lawrence University</li>
<li>Lewis and Clark College</li>
<li>Middlebury College</li>
<li>Mount Holyoke College [female only]</li>
<li>Muhlenberg College</li>
<li>St. John’s College [MD and NM]</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence College</li>
<li>Union college</li>
<li>Ursinus College</li>
<li>Wheaton College</li>
</ol>

<p>Also, if English is not your first language take the Toffel(sp) test designed for students whose first language is not English.</p>

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<p>I dont exactly know if it would be considered "competitive" in the context of that list but I believe Pitzer doesn't require standardized test scores either.</p>

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<p>the test Mizo's talking about is the TOEFL.</p>

<p>RBAY, you know I think you're okay, but that statement made you kind of suck. I'm not trying to slavishly, rabidly promote Tufts' image, I happen to dislike a lot of things about Tufts...I was going to tell the OP that it is probably unlikely that the admissions office would want to lower the SAT average with a 480, and that they should consider studying up and taking the SATs again, though it may not improve their score enough. I mean, mid-600s are considered low around here.</p>

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<p>I think lolabelle is right; being international is no excuse. Many internationals have high SAT scores. Can you really claim that colleges should be more lenient on your MATH score if English is your second language?</p>

<p>To the OP- Is English your second language? What about trying to take the SAT again to improve your scores?</p>