<p>Hi. I’ll be senior next year and I’ve been USA since May 2012(I’m a permanent resident student). Apparently English is my second language and korean is my native language. I really wanna go to UNC Chapel Hill, but I got 490CR, 690M, 380 WR on SAT(my superscore is 490,750,380). I know my scores are too low but I got 780 on Mathematics level 2(SAT II) and got 5 on AP Calc 1. I know that I have to get at least 1900 to get into UNC, but it’s really hard for me to bump my scores within 5 months.
I’m good at math but because of my english, my SAT score is really low. Do you guys think college will excuse me for that?
My guidance told me that I have to get a high score on TOEFL, and send a mail to UNC admissions. Well, I took practice test and I got 92 on Toefl, and I’m planning to take it in September.
Also, should I take SAT korean subject test?
Please help me out!</p>
<p>it’s not hard when you’ve 380 on writing. you can increase 300 points on that alone.</p>
<p>I don’t want to sound rude but with 5 months, I would be extremely happy to work my ass off to get that score rather than hoping that a college will consider me despite my horrible scores.</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice. But i dont know how to improve scores. So I decided to buy big blue book(collegeboard) and SAT writing book(kaplan) and finish it. Do you think it’s good idea? @drexter</p>
<p>We don’t have a lots of money by the way, so my parents wont let me go to college without scholarship. My goal is 600,800,600. Do you think its possible to get a scholarship?</p>
<p>for writing, you need to work on rules of grammar ( they are easy to improve) use ultimate SAT grammar guide and Silverturtle’s guide for it.</p>
<p>as for essay, use academic hacker’s guide to write essay:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-to-write-a-12-essay-in-just-10-days.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-to-write-a-12-essay-in-just-10-days.html</a> </p>
<p>and as you already have high math scores, I can’t say how to improve on that anymore.</p>
<p>for practice tests, use QAS tests (released tests) and blue book and online course (36 tests are enough to get you concepts, practice and such things.)</p>
<p>Do you live in North Carolina?</p>
<p>@drexter then what about CR? We don’t have a lots of money by the way, so my parents wont let me go to college without scholarship. My goal is 600,800,600. Do you think its possible to get a scholarship?
@suzy100 Maryland :(</p>
<p>It’s very hard to get in being from out of state. On top of that, it’s very very very hard to get merit aid out of state.</p>
<p>UNC is not realistic when you combine your test scores with the fact that you need aid and are OOS. And unfortunately for you many students who have English as a second language have much higher CR/W scores so unless you can boost that significantly the standardized test scores will hurt your application. And I don’t think schools will put a lot of weight in SATII scores in a test of what is considered your primary language.</p>
<p>Some colleges will want you – but UNC is one of the most selective schools for OOS applicants – and like others have said, they aren’t generous with FinAid. It should be completely removed from your target list, frankly.</p>