URM shooting 4 top schools. what SAT score should i reach for? (STATS)

Test Preparation
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<p>with these stats what SAT score would be sufficient enough to get into princeton, harvard, columbia?</p>

<p>URM shooting 4 a top school---what SAT score should i reach for? STATS
top as in Columbia, Harvard, Georgetown, Princeton (a professor there offered to lend her name in a recommendation letter for me)</p>

<p>School info:
urban public school
NJ
Sent someone to John Hopkins this year so far-- Columbia and Cornell last year</p>

<p>Me:
Junior
African American Female
Under $60,000 income</p>

<p>Academics
Current GPA: 4.0 on a 4.0 scale
Junior Schedule: (AP scores pending) AP History, AP English, AP Physics B, precal, french III etc etc
Senior Year: AP Calculus, AP English, AP Bio/Chemistry, French IV etc etc</p>

<p>SAT
1950 first attempt
630 m, 640 cr, 680 w
SAT II pending</p>

<p>LEADERSHIP
-Student Rep to Board of Education (only student on board)
-County Director for official state student political organization (more than 2,000 members state wide)--worked on '08 and '09 campaigns
-Editor (main)-- school newspaper
-NHS (shoe in for vice president)
-Varsity Soccer
-Vice President of Class (10)
-Financial adviser for an organization (music based--family owned)
--I do not add up my volunteer hours but ive worked in a soup kitchen and for the NHS beaucoup.</p>

<p>Awards
-- Student of the Year-- Elks
-- Gold in State Competition (Original Essay)
-- Numerous awards for excellence in an academic subject (within the school)</p>

<p>Others
-- I attend a Saturday program (called saturday scholars) every saturday morning :/ with Rutgers University.
-- Poetry publications at local library</p>

<p>** writing is my number one strength so my essays should be pretty strong</p>

<p>Summer
LEAD @ UMichigan
maybe an internship at the Cancer Institute of NJ</p>

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<p>To have a realistic chance, you should shoot for at least a 700 on one of the sections that count.</p>

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<p>Okay. Can do. Writing doesnt count right?
So either math or critical reading…critical reading it is then :p</p>

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<p>just so you know, even with that, you’re still a longshot… if you get a 1500 on the parts that count, you are almost a shoo-in to get in at least one of them.</p>

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<p>The higher the better; there are no thresholds.</p>

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<p>Yea you’re right.
The SATs are soooo annoying! lol
im just going to have to buckle myself down and try harder this time.</p>

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<p>All the sections count, including writing for all the Ivies (Except Cornell I think).</p>

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<p>The middle 50% of students at Harvard scored between a 690 and a 780 on the Critical Reading section, between 690 and 790 on the Math section, and between 690 and 780 on the Writing section. Princeton and Columbia’s score ranges are kind of comparable; Georgetown’s is a bit lower (650-750 for Math and CR).</p>

<p>So I’d say for the BEST prospects, try to get your scores at least into the 700s. If you can make mid-700s, you should be OK - it’s not a guarantee, but your chances are higher than with what you have now.</p>

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<p>^ Those SAT ranges have changed (they have gone up).</p>