This discussion was created from comments split from: 2.7 GPA and 26 ACT, what are my chances?.
Can anyone help me out?
High School Junior at a catholic school in New York
Hooks: I am a URM (Hispanic), a first generation college student, musician, and I’m also adopted
My dream schools are Cornell ILR and Mendoza at Notre Dame
Reach schools: Columbia, Harvard, Duke, Boston College, Stanford, Upenn, U Chicago, U of Virginia (I know, HIGH reaches)
Target Schools: Binghamtom, George Washington, NYU, Boston U, Fordham, Northeastern, Stony Brook, Ohio State
Safety Schools, CUNY Queens, CUNY Baruch, SUNY New Paltz, St. Johns University Queens, York PA.
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take yet goal score of 1800 for May, goal score of 2200 by October
ACT (breakdown): not taking
SAT II: Taking US and Chem in June
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesnt rank
Course Rigor: Frosh- Stage Band Honors, Integrated Geometry Advanced (took Algebra 1 in middle school). Sophmore- Biology Honors and Global History Honors, Junior Year: APUSH
AP: taking US in May
IB (place score in parenthesis): not available at my school
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit AP Environmental AP Government Honors Calculus Business Law
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing too significant
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 200 volunteer hours, golf team, bodybuilding, peer tutoring 4 yrs of band, National Honor Society, Foreign Language Honor Society
Job/Work Experience: 3 years in 2 different businesses 20 hours per week during school 35 in the summer, National Honor Society, Foreign Language Honor Society
Summer Activities: Mainly my job, hope to go to business boot camp this summer at Molloy college.
Essays: I plan to talk about my adoption and how my work and volunteer experience has inspired my interest in ILR and its incredible curriculum
Advice? Any colleges i should look into?
-I hope to major in Business or ILR (Cornell only)
- I want to set myself up to eventually successfully apply to Stanford Law School.
Until you have actual test scores, this thread is rather useless. I don’t intend that to sound mean, it is just the way it is. Be patient and start a new thread when you have actual scores. I will say that your hypothetical of 1800 on your first try at the SAT and 2200 on the next is very unlikely, even if you do take a prep course in between the two. But again, guessing doesn’t help. You have plenty of time to get feedback when you have real data.
Agreed with Fallenchemist. It’s hard to fill in the all important test score check box when you haven’t taken any of them yet.