<p>My daughter (junior) is interested in Fordham. She will have a very good GPA, 6 or so AP classes, some honors classes and very good EC's. </p>
<p>Her issue will be her SAT. She has always struggled with math/science. She will be taking the SAT for the first time next week. She has taken several practice tests and both her reading/writing scores are between 700-750. Her math, on the other hand is around 500-550. </p>
<p>She obviously won't be majoring in math/sciences (most likely english). Will the low math score kill her chances?</p>
<p>I don’t work in admissions, but I don’t think it will kill her chances at Fordham. I believe the average SATs for Fordham are around 1240 so she is right there. It is not all that unusal for a student to be much stronger in one section of the SATs than the other. Good luck.</p>
<p>My D just was accepted at Fordham EA and her math scores weren’t any different from your D’s. </p>
<p>Her math grades have never been stellar either — where she shines is Engl, Hist, Composition. We have told her that if she told colleges she wanted to be an engineer, her math grades would be an issue. But she is not attempting to give anyone that impression — so they know they are getting a student who is very strong in the areas of her interest.</p>
<p>She should pay attention to commmunity service opportunities if she is not already.</p>
<p>My younger D is a junior so we are just starting the college process once again with her. Last week we went to the first meeting at HS and I wanted to share what I thought was an interesting/valid comment from her HS dean. He mentioned that colleges aren’t looking to have all well rounded students, instead they are looking to put together a well rounded class. So that would include some who are superior math/science students, others who are stronger in english/humanitites as well as kids who are talented athletes, musicians etc. I guess the idea is that not everyone has to fit into every average for a school, particularly if he/she has an area of notable strength.</p>