What SAT score should I aim for to have a shot at OOS UVA??

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ethnicity:Native American
Fairly competative public school
Send about 25% of students to top 100 schools
GPA: 4.5
Class Rank 15 out of 400 top 5%
SAT I 1900 can probably bring up to around a 2000
ACT 29
Most vigorous course load
Scored 4 or higher on the four AP's I took Junior Year</p>

<p>Senior Class Schedule
AP Psychology
ADV SS Mentors
AP US Government
AP Statistics
AP Economics
AP English IV
AP Biology</p>

<p>-Attended Texas Boys State, became Lt. Governor, and a Texas Boys State attorney
-Junior and Senior Class Vice President
-Principles Leadership Award
-Cum Laude Society founder @ school
-Multicultural Club treasurer
-Varsity Golf captain 3yrs(top 10 qualifyer at Regionals)
-National Honor Society Member 2yrs
-Student Council Member
-UIL creative writing, current events, and number sense
-Honor Guard
-Working on having some of my writing published I worked on over the summer, may be difficult to do before applying but its possible
-over 100 community service hourse at Presbyterian Hospital</p>

<p>Expecting extremely good rec's and essays</p>

<p>Schools I'm looking at:</p>

<p>Reach Schools:
-Middlebury
-Washington University
-UVA OOS
-Vanderbilt
-Carleton
-U Chicago</p>

<p>Match Schools:
-UT Austin
-Wheaton
-Loyola Chicago
-U Mass
-Brandeis
-Boston U</p>

<p>Safety Schools:
-University of North Texas
-North Texas Central College
-University of Oklahoma
-Texas A&M
-University of Colorado</p>

<p>Tell me if I'm aiming too high or any other suggestions you might have</p>

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<p>well this is wierd, we're kinda similar... and applying OOS to UVa, i have the legacy advantage and you have the NA advantage, we'll see who wins, or maybe we both will</p>

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<p>I hate it when people say they're going to "shoot" for anything. You can't SHOOT for anything because every single time you take an SAT, you try for an 2400. If you could "shoot" for any grade you want then applications would be mayhem.</p>

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<p>If you can break 2000, that'd be great. However, a strong GPA and a very significant URM status (probably the only one that there's a general consensus among everyone that there should be preferential treatment towards) would likely get you in anyways.</p>

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<p>if u got a 2200 on your SATS, you should consier applying toa few of the ivies, given your ethnicity will help somewhat</p>

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<p>I agree with peppers ^. Your URM is your hook, provided you do well this year. Good luck. UVA is very nice.</p>