<p>Your SAT I scores automatically will be sent to any colleges that you send your SAT II to.</p>
<p>You can find on the Net tables that tell you the SAT equivalents for ACT scores.</p>
<p>Check the information that I've suggested earlier --checking places like US News' college site and books, CC archives to find out how your scores and gpa compare for those colleges, and then make your decision about whether it's worth it to you to apply to Stanford and Columbia.</p>
<p>Your being Mexican American is a plus because while Mexicans and Puerto Ricans make up the majority of Hispanics in the U.S., relatively few of them are college-bound, and even fewer have scores as good as yours. This would help your chances at colleges like Stanford and Columbia. Whether that would be enough to boost you in, I don't know. </p>
<p>Also do consider whether you want to go far from home such as going to NYC. It can be very hard going to college far from home especially if you have to adapt to a new climate and culture (as you'd have to do when going from one part of the US to another. As you probably know, even going from northern to southern Calif. is a culture difference). It is especially hard if your family can't visit you, can't take you to college or pick you up from college, and if you can only afford to go home in Dec. and at the end of the school year. Add to that, New York, while ethnically diverse, probably won't have the high proportion of Mexican-Americans that you experience in Calif. Depending on your personality, that could cause you to be homesick, isolated and lonely.</p>