<p>I don’t have any impressive hooks. I am in all honor societies, a couple clubs, and I volunteered for the Red Cross…am I in?</p>
<p>Write good essays and you should be in.</p>
<p>No not a guarantee.</p>
<p>I’ve seen students with slightly better stats be wait-listed so don’t count on it.</p>
<p>for what its worth, from my in-state high school in Virginia we had a good number of students with better stats get rejected or waitlisted (3 kids with 2200+ SATs and over 4.2 GPAs got rejected, but this is a lot considering only 8 or 9 generally apply). At the same time, (again I don’t know because I’m clearly not an admissions officer), the SAT score is definitely a very competitive one. </p>
<p>One thing to consider is your GPA though. A 4.14 can mean wildly different things at different schools.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, SAT scores and GPAs can only mean so much. You should really focus on showing your passion and interests in essays and the awards/accolades you’ve attained.</p>