<p>I am a very hard worker. My GPA is a 4.0 unweighted and 6.03 weighted. I want to go to an Ivy (Brown or Columbia), but I am not a strong standardized test taker, the highest I could get on my ACT was a 32. How much will that hurt me in the admissions process?</p>
<p>What is your class rank or decile?
Are you a Val or Sal?
Do you have “distinctive” awards, ECs, leadership, etc.?
Hooks?</p>
<p>Im ranked #1 in my class. I started an inter city mentoring program, play a varsity sport, tons of service hours, department awards, NHS, president of MUN etc. I don’t really have any hooks but I have plenty of ECs</p>
<p>Personally, I think (and hope) that places like Brown and Columbia look far deeper into an application than just test scores. A 32 is right in the 50th percentile for most Ivys, from my understanding. Try to find a hook of some kind, and you should be okay. </p>
<p>Remember that these places are looking for people with a STORY – and character – rather than just the usual digits (4.0, test scores, etc).</p>
<p>How can you have a 6.03 GPA Weighted?</p>
<p>I had a friend who got into Brown ED with only a 1900 SAT but stellar ECs and amazing recommendations and essays, along with being 3rd in her class. Don’t count yourself out!</p>
<p>If you were below 30, I’d be a bit more concerned but a 32 really is not unusual for Ivies. For most top-tier schools it’s around the 50th percentile, it’s almost always above 25th percentile. Provided you have other slightly stronger stats to compensate, you have nothing to worry about. ACT scores shouldn’t make or break you at a school with a holistic review.</p>
<p>@Equation my school weights it weird. an ‘A’ in an AP class is a 4.0 x 1.25</p>