Chances at top twenty schools?

collegemom3717
Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:55:28 +0000

Try the ACT- a lot of strong students who don’t do as well on the SAT as might be expected find the ACT more to their tastes. My D2 didn’t do particularly well on the PSAT, tried the ACT (practiced some from a book, and got the very good advice that if you know how to read a graph, read the questions on graph questions before reading the explanation paragraph, as you can often answer the questions w/out it & it saves a bunch of time…) and nailed it on the first go.

Agree with Stepay about re-thinking your list: Emory & WUSTL are pretty similar in student population, and more like Rice in structure, while Brown is a real outlier. It’s hard to see the same person being equally comfortable in all of them.