<p>Hey, I know chances threads are silly but I'd appreciate any input.
Here's My List:
Yale, UPenn, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon, UChicago, BU, NYU, Binghamton, Penn State, CUNY Honors Hunter, ..and possibly either Princeton or Stanford but I dont know about that.. I need another safety I think!</p>
<p>Name: Ian
Ethnicity: African American Male
School: Queens High School for the Sciences at York College ( a specialized high school in nyc...its competitive...we have had students sent to top schools such as Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Uchicago..in only two graduating years with each class of around 90 students...unfortunately no HYP acceptances)
GPA: 3.8
SAT: 600 CR 610M 630W OUUUUUUCHH!!!!
SAT2: 700 BIo 620 US (TAKING MATH AND BIO AGAIN IN OCT.)
I TOOK THE ACT IN SEPTEMBER AND HOPE TO RECIEVE A 30+ SO I DONT AHVE TO SEND THESE
Courseload: ALL Academic Classes are honors. My school doesn't offer many AP classes. I took AP BIO and AP US so far.
AP Grades: BIo- 4 US - 2 (ouch)
Senior Courseloud: AP Lit, AP French, AP Calculus BC, Senior Math Team, Advanced Swimming, Astronomy
Awards:
Venture Scholar
Lincoln Douglass Debate Octafinalists
Women's History Month Essay Contest Finalists
Poety Contest Finalists (poem is going to be published)
Programs:
NYU STEP PROGRAM
York College Now Jazz
York College Blue Notes
Clubs:
Co Founder of Baroque Club (Violin)
Captain of Debate Team
Drama Club
Swim Team
Summer:
Engineering Internship
Job at Daycare
Activites:
A Pletheora of Community Service
I can play the piano, trumpet, and violin
trumpet-a jazz group
violin-orchestra
piano- have completed NYSSMA</p>
<p>How is your school competitive if it doesn't offer more AP classes than the ones you said? In any event, grades/ECs look fine and I'm sure your essays and recommendations will be as well, but if your ACTs aren't 30-31+, the Ivies and Stanford are completely beyond your abilities. UChicago may take you, but again, your scores indicate that your school is pretty easy if you can achieve such a respectable GPA without objectively demonstrating (ACT/SAT) a high capacity for reasoning.</p>
<p>Yale-Match
UPenn-Match (Not Wharton)
Tufts-Match
Carnegie Mellon-Match
UChicago-Match
BU-Safety
NYU Binghamton-Safety
Penn State-Safety Safety Safety
CUNY Honors Hunter-Match (Honors is actually hard to get into from what I hear, so not safety)</p>
<p>I appreciate your encouragement and confidence, RH, but it's clear you need to do more research about college admissions. To suggest such atrocious SATs can be made up for by other factors in Ivy/Stanford admissions is absurd. Your assessments are so unrealistic and outlandish that they devalue the credibility of sites like this.</p>
<p>Look dude, you have to understand that compared to the people on this site, the people here make up like a fraction of the actual applicant pool for those shcools. There are several kids getting in with less than superior stats. People on this board have godly stats, and for that reason, lurk on these sites. But ther members are not the end be all for gathering information like SAT averages. A disproportionate number of people here have 2300+'s than in the "real world."</p>
<p>I think Rutgers Hopeful's evaluation isn't all that outlandish...
ikwame's ethnicity gives him an advantage and the rest of his application's pretty impressive. Don't fret too much about the test scores.</p>
<p>Exactly what I am trying to tell people. Test scores only make or break you for the cut and dry state schools. There is so much more to an app than that, and it would be ignorant to think otherwise, unless of course its X State University with 40,000 kids.</p>