<p>It's my final year in high school and I'm really worried about college applications and such.</p>
<p>I'm aiming for:
English HL - 6
Economics HL - 7
Music HL - 6
Chinese SL -5
Biology SL - 7
Mathematics - 7</p>
<p>with an additional two points for EE and TOK so hopefully I get about about 40 points.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I'm supposed to show my pre-IB extra curricular activities, but ever since I've started the program, I've done/been in/been a:
-school ambassador
-music composition+musical accompaniment+marketing+ushering for two student-run productions
-Choir
-Floorball
-organizing an inter-house singing competition (for those that don't know about the house system: think harry potter)
-Main designer for a fashion show in school
-piano tutoring
-organizing a service trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand.
-Taekwondo
-Tennis
-Been on a economics/service trip to Mumbai, India.
-Cultural exchange program/trip to Tokyo, Japan.
-National Youth Achievement Award (bronze)
-Goodbye Gutom project</p>
<p>These are my 'achievements' for the past 13 months but I'm not sure if it's enough to satisfy the school's 'requirements'.</p>
<p>A major down-point is that I have a pretty low SAT score of 1740 (I'm from Singapore where we use the British education system) and I haven't even taken the SAT 2 tests. I'm not sure if I should retake the SAT's 'cause I'm packed with work and the IB program really takes precedence over everything else right now.</p>
<p>I hear that even if you have a low SAT score, a higher IB score should be able to make up for it but I'm not too sure if this is true. Can somebody please tell me what the minimum IB score for the mentioned schools (in the title) is, please? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Hi IBstressed</p>
<p>I’m in my high school’s IB program too (and I’m a diploma candidate), so I hope what I know can help. </p>
<p>As far as I know, all your schools of interest don’t necessarily have a min requirement for a diploma score; they look more at if you’re a diploma or certificate candidate or not, your GPA, your SAT/ACT scores, your fulfillment of required UC-preparatory courses, and your essays (generally speaking).</p>
<p>Plus, it’d be impossible for your schools to base their decisions off your diploma score since you won’t get your diploma score til summer…</p>
<p>I know it’s late to say this, but right now, you really should focus on fulfilling the SAT II requirements (as it is mandatory for our generation, but not the next). And I don’t think your colleges will accept any test scores you will receive now, so it may not be worth it to take the SATs again right now.</p>
<p>Your ECs are spectacular though, and the IB diploma is highly regarded in American schools, so don’t lose hope! If you have more specific questions or you have special circumstances, you should contact the colleges directly as soon as you can.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Hi IB stressed
I’m in the IB program too in southern california, and from what I can see from your stats, youve got a pretty good shot of getting in. Your extracirriculars are amazing, and the rigor of your classes will help for private universities. Especially being an international student, I would be surprised if you didn’t get in to USC, BU or Brown. UCLA will care about your low SAT score, since so many people apply there (like 80,000 or something crazy this year) GPA and SAT is the like the first cutoff, and that goes for the UC system in general. Standford is a crapshoot. I know of people who are like perfect candidates, liek the whoole package, grades, test scores, recs, everything, that do not get in. But from the people I know that do get in, I can tell that they like interesting people, like very unique people. And from your list of extracirriculars, I’d say you’d fit that. But idk, stanford is weird.</p>
<p>I’m amazed that the last poster just implied that UCLA would somehow be harder to get into than Brown (which is obviously false).</p>
<p>In general, you’re going to be borderline for Brown/Stanford with a 38. Probably reject. With your ECs, you stand a decent shot at the others.</p>
<p>Hi kvdpoel,
I only get my IB results in early January next year so I’ll only be going to college next year! I hear that SAT2 isn’t required for the UC schools in 2012?</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, guys!</p>
<p>for Oxford, it’s 39. I would guess that the schools you listed would be around that</p>
<p>IBstressed: I didn’t realize you’re in the class of 2012. You definitely still have time then! Use it to raise your test scores if you can (and you’re right about SAT IIs, you don’t have to take them :] ).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>stressedouttt: Isn’t the minimum 41 points or something? my senior missed oxford by 1 point.</p>
<p>kvdpoel: okay thanks so much for the help!</p>
<p>no, sorry. the minimum requirement is actually 38. that doesn’t mean you can’t get rejected with something higher, even a 42 out of 42. it just means that you MUST have a 38. for oxford, most of the weight is on the interview.</p>
<p>I would say that for those universities you’ll need to be in the 38-45 range.</p>
<p>Oxford usually asks for 38-42 points (for example, I was asked for 40 points with 77 at HL, some of the people on my course were asked for 42 with 777 at HL, whist others were ‘only’ asked for 38 with 766).</p>
<p>Similarly, for the universities you listed you’ll have people getting rejected with above average grades and others getting accepted with below average grades. One guy in my city got into Stanford with 37 points, another girl and I who got 42 and 45 points were rejected. There’s a lot more to the application, so I’d just recommend you try to stay in the 38+ range.</p>