<p>Junior year:
AP english language and composition
AP U. S. History
Precalculus- Honors
Spanish 4-Honors
Accounting -Honors
Physics Traditional (above regular but not honors)</p>
<p>Senior Year:
AP government and politics
discussion and debate
business law1
AP calculus AB
AP literature and composition
philosophy and ethics
constitutional law
marketing
AP spanish language</p>
<p>Extras:</p>
<p>1st in state for small business management team
worked 3 jobs for the past 3 summers
international club
spanish club
president of girls reserve club
business club
National Honors Society
political articles published in local newspaper
Work with disabled children at local center
part of a rare Mini Medical School program at hospital- teacher's assistant for 3 years
involved in classical piano/organ (i teach now) and have won every competition since i was seven years old
1st in state for standard smooth ballroom dance</p>
<p>ACT: 31
SAT: 1820
GPA: 5.0 Weighted</p>
<p>(yes, i realize these are rather low, but ... what can i do, i'm trying my best....)</p>
<p>Like you already said, SAT scores probably need to be a little higher if you want to send them. How many times have you taken it?
Class rigor looks pretty good.
ECs are interesting but not outstanding.</p>
<p>I think that your extracurricular activities express your passion and desire to become an active member of your school society. That, I do not think, will present a problem to the admissions committee.</p>
<p>I would, however, recommend that you retake your standardized exams to improve those scores. 1820 is quite slow - try and get your score above the 2000 mark. </p>
<p>Your ACT scores will not prove as important as your SAT scores when you apply to an institution such as Yale; they much prefer seeing high SAT scores (a more difficult aptitude exam) than your ACT scores.</p>
<p>on the other hand, and correct me if I’m wrong, a 31 corresponds roughly to a 2000, you meet only the bare minimum there too. Since ACT seems to be stronger than SAT and might be easiert to raise, why don’t you work on raising that to at least a 33-34 which is around 2200 to improve your chances?</p>
The percentage of SAT takers scoring 2400s is smaller than the percentage of ACT takers scoring 36s so one could say that a 2400 is more impressive.</p>
<p>Personally, I am not a fan of chance threads. I feel they are either shameless bragging or needless whining. I feel we should have prediction threads instead, in which members predict whether or not someone will get into a college based on the stats he/she gives.</p>
<p>I predict you will not get into Yale. Raise those test scores.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree. After all, the “perfect” ACT score is an average, whereas SAT scores are additively obtained. This margin for error is reflected, as Jersey mentioned, in the relative rarities of these scores. (There are more than twice as many 36’s than 2400’s.) Both are commendable, however; and the difference in admissions officers’ eyes is likely negligible or non-existent. ACT claims that a 36 corresponds to 2390.</p>
<p>(Moreover, I must admit that I found the ACT quite a bit easier.)</p>
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<p>The SAT is indeed a more aptitude-based test than the more achievement-based ACT, but there is no evidence that SAT scores are more favorably viewed than ACT scores. In fact, top colleges claim that they are considered equally.</p>