<p>I was just wondering what the is wrong in this picture??</p>
<p>SAT I: 1400 second sit 2210
SAT II: US History 530 Lit 570 Spanish 800
GPA: 3.8
Great LORs
I have great extracurriculars, nothing like nationals or anything but unique extracurriculars, job experience, great essays, low income, international, leadership, iniciative, etc....deep, passionate ECs.
The SAT IIs arent stellar but Ive never taken a US History course in my life, either Lit in english, and didnt take lit through HS. Spanish is my language.</p>
<p>Am I the one who is wrong?
or Do you think rejections are due to my low income background? I needed a full ride to be able to attend any college, so considering the huge pool of applicants and the recession, what do you think? Am I the suckie one? or is it because of my need?</p>
<p>I got rejected from a long list of LACs, and I was waiting for today, I thought those LACs rejected me because of my $$$ need and HYP UPenn, etc since are need blind would reveal the truth, if accepted then it means that I got rejected at the lacs because of $$$ but if rejected then it means that I suck, and apparently I DO!!..</p>
<p>Whats wrong here? Is there life after this? I didnt get in ANYWHERE! I am doomed!</p>
<p>What the heck! A friend of mine got into Vassar and his credentials are not as close as mine, but he didnt need FA</p>
<p>Your stats are not HYPSM, so you can’t conclude anything from that. The vast majority of UNHOOKED 3.9 and 4.0 unweighted with 2250+ SAT with 750+ SATIIs are rejected from HYPSM.</p>
<p>Not all schools are Need Blind, and unfortunately, those that are tend to be the very top 10-15… schools to which your 3.8 and mid 500s SATIIs don’t match. So I would say, YES, your extreme need does affect your treatment at need-aware schools, especially during this recession.</p>
<p>wait a sec – I just checked yoru post from 2.16.11, and you list your SAT as 1400 at that time. Most admissions decisions are already made by the third week of Feb., so if you updated your application with 2210 after 2.16.11, it would have been too late.</p>
<p>With a 1400 SAT and 3.8 GPA, plus mid 500s SATII, you were a statistical match to LACs >75 and Unis >100.</p>
<p>Some questions: Did the schools receive your second SAT scores? And I am curious as to why you took SATII tests in subjects you hadn’t studied. Why not take them only in subjects you did study?
Did anyone assist you in determining which schools to apply to? Were the 16 all selective LAC’s and HYP??
Did you not have a single State Uni?<br>
Are you waiting to hear from any schools? Any wait list offers?
Your choices: many 4 year universities are still accepting applications so you could pursue that avenue. Another choice is to attend your local community college and then transfer into a 4 year next year.
You aren’t doomed, but all students really should have financial safety apps and academic safeties. Only applying to LAC’s and HYP is usually not such a hot idea, so…you need to move onto other avenues…</p>
<p>@DunninLa: “…your extreme need does affect your treatment at need-aware schools, especially during this recession.” Thank you! I want to convince myself it wasnt me. My second sat score probably didnt arrive ontime, stupid me…procrastinating…the story of my life, maybe this is my lesson.
I don’t get this “…statistical match to LACs >75 and Unis >100.”</p>
<p>@Polarscribe,no In-state Flagships do not offer FinAid.</p>
<p>@3321 They received my scores but perhaps too late to be taken into consideration.
The subject test was because I wanted to be well rounded, I studied in a “computer programming” highschool, so my classes were mostly math and sciences, I wanted to be well rounded and take World History but WH is available every other month or something like that so I had to choose US History, Lit well, Im a writter, and again I wanted to be more well rounded. Spanish, well is my language but Im so stupid I shouldve taken Math.
No one assisted me, most of them are selective LACs and HYP (Wellesley, Wesleyan, Smith, Mt Holyoke, Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, Yale, Middlebury, Princeton, Macalester, Vanderbilt, U of Chicago, Vassar)
Didn’t apply to state unis or anything else, Ill take a gap year I guess. Do you know which universities are still accepting applications?
Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>My suggestion would be to try a community college and then transfer! I’ve had a wonderful experience at mine and some even have an Honors College. If you join the PTK there are scholarships specific to PTK members at a lot of 4-year schools.</p>
<p>Do any of the schools that still take apps have great financial aid? I think that may be the problem.</p>
<p>SAT I: 1400 second sit 2210</p>
<p>Are you saying that you went from a 1400 in THREE sections to a 2210? If so, I wonder if the schools thought that you had someone else take the exam for you. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a jump from such a very low score to a 99th percentile score. </p>
<p>I don’t know why you think in-state schools don’t offer financial aid. They’re the cheapest option for you, and generally do offer some need-based aid. If you’re in California, the Blue and Gold program is excellent.</p>
<p>All the schools you applied to are exceedingly selective.</p>
<p>sketchpad, so your high school admission’s counselor didn’t assist at all? That is such a shame, because you needed guidance on many aspects; which schools to apply to and which SATII tests to take as well.<br>
A gap year won’t assist you if your goal is still getting into one of those selective schools…unless your year is truly something unique. The community college option is probably the best. In addition to honors programs (with your second SAT score you might be eligible but many cc’s require their own placement tests) they also have guaranteed admission programs to universities if you meet gpa and stipulated courses etc. for the particular university you decide to shoot for.
I know Univ of Texas at Dallas accepts until June, .but use the link someone else provided to have more options. Financial aid might be an issue with rolling admissions, but schools that have actual app deadlines of May or June might still have financial aide options…
Meet with your guidance counselor today. Why did she/he agree with your 16 choices? re: your great LOR’s did the writers know you were limiting yourself to such a selective group of schools?? Truly, I hate to harp on this, but I really wish you had had some actual guidance.</p>
<p>Are you an international student, or a US student? If you are an international applicant, no matter where you went to high school, if you need a lot of aid, it will be almost impossible to get the aid you need, and how much aid you need will indeed affect your admissions at almost all colleges and universities.</p>
<p>If have been studying in the US, whether you classify at an international or as a US applicant, how on earth did you escape taking US history? That is a required subject at every high school I’ve ever known in the US.</p>
<p>If you are a US student, whether you have been living in the US or outside the US will determine whether you qualify for in-state status. If you are a US student, and you have been living here, then you almost certainly have in-state status in at least one state. That means that there should be a community college near you that is affordable with need-based (FAFSA) aid and a part-time job. Your home-state public universities should be pretty affordable too.</p>
<p>If you are an international who has been living and studying in the US, you may qualify for in-state status at the community colleges and/or public universities in your state of residence. However that varies by state, so you need to investigate the situation where you live.</p>
<p>If you are an international who is living outside the US, and you still want to pursue the dream of higher education in the US, you need to read through everything (and I do indeed mean everything) at [EducationUSA</a> | Study Abroad, Student Visa, University Fairs, College Applications and Study in the U.S. / America](<a href=“http://www.educationusa.info/]EducationUSA”>http://www.educationusa.info/) Then you need to make an appointment with the counselors at the advising center closest to where you live. They can tell you where students from your country have gone to study in the US, and whether or not they have received the financial aid that they need.</p>
<p>It sounds like schools may not have received your second sat score in time to consider it. If your first sat was 1400 for three sections, that’s way too low for ivied and other top schools. I think NACAC puts out a list of schools with available space. You might want to check that out.</p>
<p>Since you appear to be in need of substantial merit aid, I’d suggest you take a gap year and do this all correctly next year.</p>
<p>Applying with a 2210 SAT will likely get you substantial Merit aid at schools ranked 50-100 in USNWR, and might get you into some need blind schools as well – top 15 or so Unis, top 10 or so LACs,</p>
<p>If you are an international applicant (you listed “international”, but I’m not sure if that is your background, or that is were you currently reside), you’re going to have a credibility problem with your 1400 - 2200 SAT jump. I would assume you hired someone for the second test unless your test taking capabilities were confirmed by other sources I trusted. Even in the US there is the occassional test fraud, but overseas it is like kidnapping in Mexico… practically a national sport.</p>
<p>But you did apply to all reaches (Wellesley, Wesleyan, Smith, Mt Holyoke, Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, Yale, Middlebury, Princeton, Macalester, Vanderbilt, U of Chicago, Vassar)</p>
<p>Hi everyone, thank you all, you make me feel better lol.</p>
<p>I am a German living in Mexico (since I was 1, I speak german but Im not good at writing). So Im twice international I guess…(fyi: kidnapping isn’t that common in Mexico)</p>
<p>Anyway, I know the jump seems unbelievable but when I scored the 1400 I was basically dying, I was so freaking sick that I cant remember any of the questions and barely the whole day. When I took the test fot the second time I scored 2210. Perhaps if I retake the SAT I and SAT II but take chemistry and Math and score 800 the adcoms could realize I didnt cheat. Ugh this sucks.
Fortunately Ive seen that a lot of intls with finaid needs got rejected, so it wasnt us!! phew! and I guess I applied to reaches like Kei o Lei said.
Ill take a shot next year then. Ill get a job and learn to write in german, take the SAT I again, and Math and chemistry SAT II’s.</p>
In-state Flagships do not offer FinAid.</p>
but Im so stupid I shouldve taken Math.