Rising Senior Applying to Prestigious Universities

<p>Your SAT II scores are good, and as you probably already know, the SAT I scores need improvement. The ACT scores look great.</p>

<p>But you are in a quandary: you have taken an extremely rigorous AP curriculum and have a few blemishes. The AP courses will show up on your transcript, but if you don’t submit all of your scores, the Adcom members will wonder why. If you have a good explanation on why you have a few bad scores (2-3) then explain it somewhere in your application. Not reporting these scores will make readers wonder.</p>

<p>The first generation status you have is a great hook, exploit it to the max. Do you have any work experience?</p>