<p>8th grade:
Algebra 1: A
Spanish 1: A-</p>
<p>Freshman year:
Honors English: B+
Honors World History: B+
Honors Biology: B
Geometry: A
Spanish 2: B+
Art: A
PE/Health: A</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
Honors English: A
AP World History: A
Chemistry: A
Algebra 2: A
Current Issues: A
Journalism: A
Spanish 3: A
PE/Health: A</p>
<p>Junior year (first semester):
AP Literature and Composition: A
AP US Government: A
Physics: A
College Algebra and Trigonometry: A
Spanish 4: A
Journalism: A
Accounting 1: A</p>
<p>ACT:
September: E: 30, M: 24, R: 28, S: 25, writing: 7, composite: 27
December: E: 30, M: 27, R: 29, S: 23, writing 8, composite 27
April: E: 30,M:26, R: 27, S:24, writing 7, composite 27
-Taking the Kaplan Prep Course and hoping to get my score up in September </p>
<p>PSAT:
Freshman: 159
Sophomore: 169
Junior: 179</p>
<p>-Cross Country, Indoor, and Outdoor track for three years
-Club lacrosse during my sophomore and junior years
-Varsity letters in lacrosse, academics, and journalism
-Co-editor for school newspaper during junior year
-2nd place in flat layout and editorial for state competition
-1st place for 4A division in state competition for newspaper
-2nd place for state we the people
-secretary in service clubs interact and key club
-junior leadership or laramie county
-NHS during senior year
-Juniorrettes (a service club)
-Wyoming Air National Guard Youth of the Year
-Girls state representative for this summer</p>
<p>I can write a strong essay about moving twice during high school</p>
<p>Stop taking the ACT so many times (or rather you shouldn’t have taken it so often). It seems like test prep and testing should be an extracurricular for you.</p>
<p>But nice upward trend in grades. How many AP courses does your school offer? Are you taking a significant amount of those?</p>
<p>ECs are good but not overwhelmingly so; they’re what’s expected from a decent Vandy app, no more, no less. Being from Wyoming should help you though.</p>
<p>Low reach.</p>
<p>you literally have no chance with a 179 psat </p>
<p>Would you recommend trying the SAT in October? I just moved back to Northern Virginia and am taking 3 during my senior year. I did 2 junior year and one sophomore year. I’m also doing 1 honors course at Virginia. I’m a legal Wyoming resident though. do you think that could be helpful? thanks! @callmejon</p>
<p>Your grades are fine, but those test scores probably won’t be competitive at Vanderbilt. Their 25th percentile composite ACT score is 32. </p>
<p>I suggest exploring test-optional colleges, since standardized tests appear to be your weakest element.</p>
<p>Unfortunately Vanderbilt is one of the annoying schools that values test scores more than almost anything else. Vanderbilt has recently been working to boost its average act scores to more closely compete with Ivy League universities from a statistical standpoint. They have really only been accepting students with ACT scores of over 32ish. So unfortunately, although your extracurriculars, especially writing, are strong, I really don’t thing you stand a competitive chance due to your low test scores. Good luck though!</p>
<p>should i submit all of my ACT scores? or would that look bad? i’m hoping to take it once more and get some of my subscores up a bit but would vanderbilt, or any school, look down on submitting 3 or 4 rounds of the ACT?</p>
<p>All of your ACT scores are the same (27), with the same ugly duckling (science) what do you think sending multiple will do? You should have been working more on the science section. </p>
<p>They’re telling you that Vandy uncommonly selects someone below 32</p>
<p>Wake Forest is a good Test Optional school
What other schools are on your list</p>
<p>I just didn’t know if schools would want to see all of my scores… I’m planning to apply to University of North Carolina Asheville, Davidson, Belmont, and Centre College. I’m also thinking about Furman, Emory, Samford, University of Denver, and CU Boulder. Tulane and Colorado School of Mines are sending me free applications without the essays so I will probably put in at those two schools as well.</p>