<p>Congratulations on your finalist status! As you know, the test scores seem to be your only weakness. Hopefully one or more of those colleges will be able to overlook it. Work on test prep systematically. I hope you can bring up that CR score.</p>
<p>I hope Brown admits you (I’m partial), they don’t admit into specific schools like engineering, so you don’t have to worry about being shut out, and they have a fantastic CS program if that interests you. It’s a very intimate schools with lots of prof contact and lots of available research opportunities. Just a truly great place. Plus they love great essays.</p>
<p>I feel like most of these colleges are reaches. Your math scores are a bit low for an engineering school. TBH if you got into the 700s on your SAT you could probably get into Princeton. Try to get 5s on your BC and Physics Aps.</p>
<p>My step-father went to U Virginia, I feel like you could easily get in there with your credentials, plus they offer great financial aid.</p>
<p>Lol “how was it like being homeless?”. Well, not good. Haha I’m not going to go into depth on this website but I really did in my essay. Long story short it consisted of me and my family sleeping in various places such as the at first living in hotels then the car, my fathers office, a public storage, the sidewalk once. I have plenty of stories to tell because it happened many times and lasted for long periods of time (three months to one year) from when I was about ages 10-15. I’ve attended 4 schools in high school alone (In all I’ve moved over 10 times) because of my homelessness. And I had to go to school no matter where I slept or what happened the night before. I would spend most of my days in the library anyways since it was open most of the time and free! My family an I are still struggling to keep the apartment we finally got… We are overdue with our rent currently and I pray we don’t lose it and spiral into homelessness again but there’s not too much I can do to prevent it… Plus my two older siblings could not even afford to go to college so I really need this opportunity at Questbridge!</p>
<p>I’ve been taking several sat practice tests from the blue book to raise my math and reading score and in math I am hitting the 680-720 range and reading the 660-700 range. I just hope I can reach both on test day so I can have a 2100! But I’m being reasonable and realistic when I say I will probably be in the 2000 range but who knows, it could happen! I’m am just going to continue prepping like crazy I guess!</p>
<p>considering all your hardships, 1900 is a phenomenal score. You will do well wherever you get in. It really won’t matter where you go to college since the colleges need you more than you need them.</p>
<p>I agree with texaspg… most people here have a hard time sympathizing with someone who comes from a significantly less privileged background. I think that a person who achieves a 1900 SAT while moving 4 times in high school, coming from a family that has virtually no free-spending income, and was even homeless for god’s sake is extremely impressive. I will not be surprised if you are admitted to at least a couple colleges on your list, even without raising your SAT score…</p>
<p>Sorry OP but I am going to use your thread to rant about something. Satman, you underhanded comment about how it is unfair that the OP gets an affirmative action boost shows how elitist and out of touch you are. She was homeless for crying out loud, her family’s combined income was under $10000 and she changed high schools 4 times. A 1900 is an very good SAT score for her even for the ivies. I hate the terrible elitism on CC. Mostly everyone on CC is some upper class Northeast kid with prep school educations and Ivy league educated parents or a kid in a magnet school somewhere in Silicon Valley with wealthy professional immigrant parents. These kids are born with a silver spoon inside their mouth. When they are rejected to top colleges with their 2250 SAT scores, generic ECs and two dimensional personalities; they blame URMs and poor people with low SAT scores for taking the spots that “were so rightfully theirs”. This makes me sick and I start hating this website. They need to realize that there are people out there that have done so much more than they have even though they don’t have the scores or laundry list of ECs to prove it. Sorry for the rant OP but I think you are bound for success in whatever you do :).</p>
<p>To all CC App users: Do yourself a favor and mark all chance threads as read. I have doing this for a few weeks (Questbridge threads have been the exception because they always have really supportative words and OPs with really interesting stories) and my mental health and depression have become better.</p>
I’m am just going to continue prepping like crazy I guess!</p>