What are my chances taking in account....

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[What are my chances to get accepted into a university with a strong physics program taking in account that:
1- I’m going to apply after taking a gap year because I haven’t taken the SAT exam yet as I never intended to apply for college in the US before. (I attended high school abroad)
2- I repeated my senior year because I suffer from perfectionism and I didn’t want to attend the finals because I thought I wasn’t well-prepared.
3- I haven’t done any ECs in high school because in my country schools are more concerned about academics and they RARELY offer any activities to do.

During my gap year I will do intensive charity/community work, translate English science articles to Arabic, write articles myself,join a scientific research program, and participate in a science fair at a university.
I will do my best to score around 1500 in the new SAT and 800 in SAT physics and Math 2.
I scored 96% in my senior year and my overall high school score is 92%. I have found online that that score is like getting 3.6 GPA in the US. (Mayber higher than 3.6, I’m still very uncertain about how colleges in the US will view my score)

UVA, BU, UNC, USC, Reed, Emory, Rochester and Rutgers are some of the colleges I’ve listed to apply for till now. ( All of them will consider me as domestic student because I’m a green card holder). Do I have any chance to get accepted into the universities I listed above or should I apply for lower-ranked ones or Will I have to apply for a community college?
What should I do to improve my chances? What are your advices?

Thanks in advance.

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If you DO get a 1500 on the new SAT, you should be fine, and you should explain your situation (why the gap year) in your college essays.

Also try to find some EC’s or community service opportunities outside of school. are there any science competitions you can join or places you can volunteer at?

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You rekindled my hopes :slight_smile: :slight_smile: I hope you understood that I graduated from high school in 2015 and I’m still going to apply in 2016 for the fall semester of 2017.

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well… a 1500/1600 is pretty high. I’d say it’d be difficult to get this score…
as well as an 800 in both physics and math II. my friends are stressed about the physics subject test, and they are extremely smart haha…
hmm… so you’re taking 2 gap years? why?

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also, make sure you can pay for these universities, as they are quite expensive…

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I’m taking two gap years because they deadlines for applying for most colleges is in January and I have not taken the SAT yet and I’m not ready to take it now. I’ll have to take it next year and apply next year.

Yeah it will be very very difficult to get near perfect scores but I’ll just do my best.

These universities meet full demonstrated need.

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please tell me I’ll be fine.