<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am very interested in going to Tufts University. I was wondering what my chances might be, and what I would have to do to improve them.</p>
<p>I just finished my junior year at one of the better high schools in my state.</p>
<p>I have not taken the SAT, but I scored a 28 on the ACT without studying and I am definitely planning on retaking it. I know it's a pretty weak score.</p>
<p>I took AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and AP Art this past year and I am still waiting to receive my scores. I plan on taking an additional 2 AP courses, possibly an honors course, and dual enrolling at my community college next year.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 unweighted GPA. I do not know my class rank, or if my school even calculates class rank, but I'm sure I'm in the top 10%.</p>
<p>As for extracurricular activities:
Varsity soccer since freshman year
10 years of club soccer
4 years of piano
I have participated in a community service club my school offers called ACTION
I am a National Honors Society member
I actively tutor during the school year
For the past two years, I have been a part of a mentoring program in my school district
I will be running cross country in the fall</p>
<p>I also have good relationships with many of my teachers, so getting recommendation letters shouldn't be a problem for me.</p>
<p>I will also be looking to play soccer in college.</p>
<p>Thanks. I'd really appreciate knowing how I stand and what I should do to improve my chances.</p>
<p>Have you been in touch with the soccer coach at Tufts? He/she would be able to give you the best assessment of your admissibility as an athletic recruit.</p>
<p>I’m late in the game being recruited by any college for soccer because I tore my ACL last year and was not able to really show what I can do in the most important recruitment year and I am only a few months back into playing. But I am attending their ID camp and I am working on contacting the coach. But without soccer, what are my chances still?</p>
<p>The median composite ACT scores for students accepted into Tufts range from 30-33. When you see that only 25% of students scoring under 30 are accepted, it does not look very promising. Maybe your soccer will be enough to compensate. If you are not a serious athletic prospect, you have to see Tufts as a long shot, at best. The students in the bottom quartile will usually have “hooks” or extenuating circumstances. Perhaps English is not a native language, and so their English and Writing scores were low, while their Math and Science scores were high. They might be legacy admits, recruited athletes, under-represented minorities or others with disadvantaged backgrounds, or they have some unusual talents or backgrounds. Affluent, white, suburban kids should accept that any college where they fall substantially below the median range is a reach. Your school must have a Naviance site. You need to plug your figures into that. I just checked them against one Internet site; you should use CC or College Board’s data sets, also. I cannot name competing sites here, but the one I used put you in the 37th percentile for Tufts, when combining your GPA and ACT scores. That’s not hopeless - especially if your soccer skills attract them - but it’s not terribly encouraging, either. You want to start looking at schools where your academic statistics are above average. Apply to reaches, by all means, but understand that they are reaches. There is no need to create a new thread to ask the same question about highly-selective colleges over and over. The answer will remain the same.</p>
<p>Thanks for your feedback. And yeah I kinda realized I shouldn’t have created so many new threads, but when I tried to delete them, it wouldn’t let me. I’m new to the site and didn’t know how it worked. Sorry. Annoying, I know. You were helpful. Thanks.</p>