the discussion question speaks for itself.
(forgetting extracurriculars, gpa, and other crap)
Yes.
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1)Great is completely subjective
2) Are we assuming everything else (Grades,rigor,ec) are on par with the 1450/33?
@AimingTop50 12 AP classes, 3.9/4.0 gpa, drum major in marching band
Where are you trying to go @oakland818 ?
Either UT Austin, NYU, USC, or Boston College (Texas resident btw)
I think you can definitely get into all of those.
You should apply to higher reach schools (if you want) because you may get in, you never know.
Can you/your family afford those schools?
I think that it depends upon the other stuff, but depending a bit upon the definition of “great” it will help.
^ yeah, you very likely won’t be getting merit from any of these schools
Report only your ACT. A 33 trumps 1450.
@suzy100 of course not, this is all kind of wishful thinking on my part. My main focus is ut Austin tbh. The others would be icing on the cake
i mean i got into Tulane with 15k per year scholarship with 32 ACT
@trexation72 That’s great!
USC/NYU are quite harder to get into than Tulane (no offence, Tulane is awesome!)
and, State schools are normally unlikely to give out merit. Majority of state schools struggle with underfunding.
@AimingTop50 doesn’t a 33 act convert to like a 1440-1480? Would it really make that much of a difference?
also since ur texas resident, if ur in top 7% of class (i assume u r bc high UW GPA) ur guaranteed UT Austin
i guess test scores dont matter in that case
@trexation72 no I’m in top 20% because my high school is crazy competitive, so to be in the top 7% you have to have a 102.5, and I have like a 99.2
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@suzy100 of course not, this is all kind of wishful thinking on my part. My main focus is ut Austin tbh. The others would be icing on the cake
My question about affordability did not carry over, but your answer is above. Why would you apply to a school that you know is not affordable? Don’t do it. That’s just a waste of an application.
"no I’m in top 20% because my high school is crazy competitive, so to be in the top 7% you have to have a 102.5, and I have like a 99.2 "
I don’t know how it works in Texas, but in some states you need to be in the top x% of the state, not the high school.
@AimingTop50, for the record, Tulane, USC and NYU have very similar ACT mid ranges for admitted students (30-33, 29-33, 28-32 respectively. Tulane’s overall admit rate was 21% this year, and the regular decision admit rate was 7.5%. I don’t know the final numbers for USC or NYU, but I don’t imagine that they were significantly different. Thus trexation72’s using Tulane as a benchmark for those schools was on the money.