<p>Please Help Me!!! </p>
<p>i am a senior and i have no idea where i can get in with my stats. here they are:</p>
<p>-about 1320 on the sat (2010 on new one)
-captain of varsity sport for couple years
-involved in 2 varsity sports all 4 years
-200 miscellaneous volunteer hours
-top 20% at competitive private school
-founder and president of minority awareness club (though i am upper-middle class, non-URM)
-latin club
-several athletic meets with OK placement </p>
<p>i am looking at wake forest, NU, cornell, tufts, BC, emory, amherst, nyu, BU, and UTaustin</p>
<p>What's your GPA? </p>
<p>Top 20% and a 1320 are probably not going to cut it, especially since you don't seem to have any real hooks.</p>
<p>I'd also forget Cornell, Emory, Amherst and UT Austin. </p>
<p>You might have a shot at BU and NYU.</p>
<p>do you know anything about UT austin? or do you just speak authoritatively like that for kicks</p>
<p>In terms of numbers, the average is 1400 (SAT) and 94 percentile (class rank). Your numbers are therefore on the low side. But if you write good essay, you have a shot since NU adcom is pretty big on essays. SOmeone on this board got in with 1260 or something like that, although I remember her class rank was pretty high.</p>
<p>lol. i applied to UT Austin AND NU. got in to NU, rejected by UT (well, they later offered me a place in their summer class, but I was essentially rejected). This is with top 10% and a 1400 on my SAT, plus what I'd call a 'hook' </p>
<p>I think admissions are highly competitive, especially out of state. And if you're in state and not in the top 10% of your class, it's probably not likely either.</p>
<p>But you're right though, I shouldn't have said that like it was definitive. I'm not an adcom. I'd say go ahead and apply to where you really want to go, but add some safeties to that list. </p>
<p>And SamL is right, a great essay could get you into NU (still don't know what your GPA is though).</p>
<p>Did you apply to some "impacted" major?
I think if we go by average overall, NU is harder to get in than UT Austin OOS. Almost every year, there are people from my high school in Hong Kong getting into UT Austin while the top privates are a lot harder to get in for them. But randomness makes people guessing. </p>
<p>Samherst10,
Like lilybbloom said, you do need to add safeties.</p>
<p>I applied to journalism, so yeah. when i was accepted to their summer session it was only to 'undecided' so i guess the major you put down does have some effect.</p>