<p>To tack on what chocolateluvr88 said. The University of California schools would depend on if you are a state resident or not and your major. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science would be much harder than Undecided. And if you are not a state resident, it is incredibly difficult to get in.</p>
<p>However, if you are a state resident and you declare a simpler major, I think you shouldn't have a problem getting in. If you are not a state major, yes, they are big reaches.</p>
<p>I honestly just wanna kick ass with ED, that way I can spend the rest of my senior year doing stuff not college related, (volenteer more, focus on APs)</p>
<p>I was basing my SAT score on this curve:</p>
<p>but I will seriously practice and practice hard, I know what my mother always told me:</p>
<p>with practice comes perfection..</p>
<p>I might be getting a lil too intense about a standardized test here but .. no comment</p>
<p>thanks for the replies..and I live in NY, and no disrespect to SUNY, but I DON'T want to go to a SUNY and def. not a CUNY school, hope im not speaking to soon here, but I have heard some BAD stories..</p>
<p>Yeah, you can definately get into more prestigious schools than the SUNY schools (no offense to them, though). I think the curves are usually on the rougher ends of what was posted. Notice that according to his post on some math sections getting 1 wrong can be a 770. And even if it's an easy test, getting 0 wrong can be difficult because of careless errors. Just keep in mind for when you're practicing, we're predicting based on 2300. If you get a 2200 or something, your chances would be different.</p>
<p>I understand, thanks a lot for your advice, MUCH appreciated..</p>
<p>I think I should be able to weed out the careless errors through blue book practice</p>
<p>agree with chcolateluvr, but the 11-20 schools are still realistic in my opinion. 2300 is excellent, and if it sticks out with the adcoms, who knows, you have a chance.</p>
<p>I should add im looking to do Pre Med if that makes any difference, but I might change my major to business..</p>
<p>a last bump to get some more opinions, and im done</p>
<p>For what's it's worth, the 25-75%tile of SAT scores for USC this year is 2000-2200; it's becoming a LOT more selective & they accepted only about 25% of their applicants. For engineering, they only accepted about 10% of their applicants. My son's friend got into UPenn but rejected by USoCal.
It really doesn't make a lot of sense to ask about chances until you actually HAVE an SAT score to work with. Good luck figuring out what you want--your counselors can help you as well once you have some scores.</p>