<p>Which score is more appealing to admission officers? Also, with a 3.9 (only core classes recalculated with +.5 for Honors and +1 for AP) GPA and my 90.2/100 Unweighted what are my current chances with these schools?
Class rank = 28/126 (Top 25%)</p>
<p>SAT:
570 = CR
590 = Math
540 = Writing
Essay = 8</p>
<p>ACT:
English: 25
Math: 26
Reading: 27
Science: 23
Essay = 7</p>
<p>Florida State University
U of Florida
Penn State
Ohio State
UCLA
U of Texas (Austin)
Michigan State</p>
<p>Thanks. My ACT scores just came in today</p>
<p>I don’t know much about your chances at a lot of those schools, but I would say UCLA is a pretty big reach (God, I hate chancing people now, lol. It’s not you, it’s me).</p>
<p>A 25 ACT is a 1710 on the SAT, and the range makes it a possible 1730. They’re basically the same. The on average 10 point boost isn’t really going to do much.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html”>http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html</a></p>
<p>This is my take, as a parent and college professor: The list you have seems optimistic for your scores. Your ACT and SAT scores are pretty much equivalent. Your GPA is good, although I do not know the rigor of your courses. I am assuming you are a junior. You should retake the exams, whichever one you are most comfortable with, and see if you can improve your scores. The OOS schools you have will be expensive for you and you may want to check their test score profile first (I assume you are in Florida?) Add some more schools to your list that have score profiles which are within your score range. Then make a list which consists of safeties, matches and reaches. Unless you have some exceptional talent which you have not mentioned in your post, the OOS schools you have listed all look like reaches to me with your scores, and state universities are primarily numbers based for admission.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.act.org/aap/concordance/pdf/reference.pdf”>https://www.act.org/aap/concordance/pdf/reference.pdf</a> says that 25 ACT is equivalent to 1710 SAT CR+M+W, or range of 1680 to 1730.</p>
<p>UT Austin is a reach since you are not in the auto-admit category. Probably a super-reach, since your top 25% rank is quite far from the top 7% auto-admit threshold if you are a Texas resident.</p>
<p>@mathprof63 I’ve meticulously gathered all this info from the College Board website (besides GPA, College Board only gives very broad estimates of GPA). And I’m convinced that I fall in the 50% mark for at least Penn State and Michigan State at least. Basically, as you go up, the less likely I’ll be admitted with my stats. Are you still convinced that I’m still in left field even after you see how I compare side-by-side. <strong>All the stats in the chart are 50 percentile freshman</strong> <a href=“http://postimg.org/image/wru7wj2lb/”>http://postimg.org/image/wru7wj2lb/</a> </p>
<p>also I’ve taken the hardest courses my school has to offer. All honors and 2-3 AP</p>
<p>SimplyOverdone: I would use the common data set for each University to see how you stack up. Just do a internet search for the University. The common data set breaks down the % of students accepted in GPA/ACT/SAT scores. This is a better indicator of your chances. You will probably have to use 2013 data until 2014 data is available. Unfortunately, it does not breakdown by major. A competitive major stats will be much higher than a non-competitive so you would want to be at the 75% for those majors. These are only guidelines, but unless you get your ACT up to a 30, I would say they all low reach/reach schools.</p>
<p>OP, Something else to consider is the cost of all those schools. You would be paying out of state rates for at least 5 of them. Can your family afford to do that for 4 years?</p>