<p>My daughter got a 33 on the ACT and on her first try on the SAT received
CR 760
Math 630
Writing 730
essay 9</p>
<p>We live in the South and she wants to apply to some competitive schools.
Penn
Yale
Brown
Stanford
U Chicago
Tufts</p>
<p>She has won numerous awards and has outstanding ECs that I wont bore you with,(Some on an international level)and has won awards for academic excellence and leadership.Also, has done tons of community service(locally and internationally) and is president of her community service club at school. All her EC make sense and are not all over the map but demonstrate obvious passion.
She also plays sport and is captain of her school sports team and is a member of NHS.
Her extra curriculas and reccommendations will probably look stronger than her scores on her application. </p>
<p>Would you reccommend her taking the SAT again (she really doesn't want to) or should she rather just submit her 33 ACT score? Is it strong enough to carry her into schools like the above mentioned?</p>
<p>Keep the ACT score. Typically, getting a 30 or higher on the ACT is a competitive score.</p>
<p>If she could get all her SATs above 700, it would make her a slightly stronger candidate. Obviously, her scores are excellent, but if she hasn't taken the SAT twice, it couldn't hurt to take it again. My GC always recommends that students take the SAT twice, but not three times.
As for the ACT, it looks like she's set. If she could get it to 34+ then she would be in the elite range, but since her ECs and involvement look so spectacular, i'm sure she'll have just a good a chance as anyone when she applies at the top schools.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice.
She has finally conceded that she will retake the SAT 1 and try and get her math to at least a 700.</p>
<p>She shouldn't feel any pressure for the SAT. Her ACT is definitely enough to get her into all those schools. The middle 50% of accepted students at Harvard (it's not on the list but I'm just using it as an example) score in the 31-34 range. So according to that statistic (from collegeboard.com) she's in the upper middle range. Not top 25%, but not bottom 50% either. Definitely a very good score!</p>
<p>I was going to post the exact same question for my s, but since I saw this thread, I thought I would get all of your opinions as well for his situation.<br>
He has taken the ACT twice, his second/best test was a 30. He just got his first SAT test and got a 1230/1600 (CR and Math) or 1900/2400. His math score was a 570 on the SAT (he has always been weaker in math than any other subject- poor kid he can blame his mom for that one! :)) </p>
<p>He isn't shooting for as competitive of schools as marmite's daughter, but is looking at some OOS state schools (UGA) that are pretty competitive. We have been told that they look at the best test scores- which obviously would be the ACT score, but is it worth it to try to improve the math section and take the SAT again in October? Do the scores go up substantially when the test is taken the second time? He didn't prepare at all for the SAT- too little time! and isn't keen on retaking it, but maybe after being off all summer and not having the crush of all of these tests in such a short time frame, he would be OK.</p>
<p>Thanks for letting me "nose in" on your thread marmite- and best wishes to your daughter!</p>
<p>Aim to be in the upper end of the 25%-75% midrange for your schools or above. The 25%-75% midrange for the Ivies are as follows:</p>
<p>Harvard: 31-34
Yale: 31-34
Princeton: 30-34
Columbia: 28-33
Dartmouth: 28-34
UPenn: 29-33
Brown: 27-33
Cornell: 28-32</p>
<p>And some others:</p>
<p>University of Chicago: 28-33
MIT: 30-34
Stanford: 28-33
Amherst: 28-33
Williams: 29-33
Swarthmore: 28-34
<em>UGA</em>- 24-29</p>
<p>Keep in mind this includes legacies, athletes, "hooked" applicants and not everyone submits ACT scores. Overall I'd say the 32-34 range makes you completive, but to really stand out you would need 35 or 36.</p>
<p>Keep ACT score. :)</p>