<p>Goshdarn it, another guy applying to the schools I want to go to with better stats.</p>
<p>It's okay, 2-iron. Pull yourself together.</p>
<p>But seriously, they're all high matches/low reaches (as with anyone above a certain level). The SAT scores are your weakest point, but with that ACT score...who cares?!?!</p>
<p>yea it's great, because I took the ACT the first time and got a 33, so I was looking at an entirely different set of colleges. When that 35 came in (complete surprise), it shook up everything. I stopped looking at UF and started looking at UPenn.</p>
<p>Dunn in LA -
That is close to the applicant I'm talking about, yes. Valedictorian or top 1%, all-state music or sports, high ACTs (and SATs and SAT iis, which the OP does not have). It's a lottery - maybe, as you say, it's all in the packaging. There are a lot of applicants at the schools the OP has mentioned, and a lot of disappointments to follow.</p>
<p>Would it be best for me not to report my weak SAT score?</p>
<p>Dunn: I just want to give students realistic expectations. Yes, his stats are very very good for any school out there, but he should not have a false sense of security and think that a college like Middlebury or others you listed are "matches" or "safeties" because like I said, no one should really expect to be handed admittance to those schools. Certainly he has a great chance at top schools and should apply to as many as interest him, but also have realistic or even lower than realistic backups just to be sure. As midwesterner said, there are a lot of applicants at those schools, and no doubt many with similar or better stats get turned down every year. Look at how many kids got waitlisted from GW last year for seemingly no reason...it happens.</p>
<p>I think you could report your SAT score because they will see how good your ACT is anyway. I don't think it will hurt you.</p>