<p>^ Georgia Tech would consider that a perfect score.</p>
<p>I think I’ve taken the least amount of standardized tests here, and I’m done.</p>
<p>1 ACT, 2 Subject Tests</p>
<p>Seriously though, no one at a top school (or a lower ranked school’s scholarship people) is going to be like, “Damn this kid has a 32, there’s no way we can reject him now.” </p>
<p>Not that a 36 would make them say that either, but a 36 does stick out. That’s something I’m lacking right now. I still don’t see what’s so ridiculous about asking if it’s worth trying to bring it up higher. Even if you don’t think it’s worth it, it’s still a legitimate question IMO.</p>
<p>Brown rejects 70% of 36s.</p>
<p>That was supposed to make you feel better.</p>
<p>^True. Luckily I’m not applying to Brown. Or any Ivies. The highest reaches I have planned are Rice, Northwestern, and UNC-CH. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think a better ACT score could legitimately help me at those schools. The odds will still be against me of course, but every little thing that helps… helps.</p>
<p>I know that Rice likes their SAT/ACT scores high. No one from my school has been rejected with a 2250+ or 34+.</p>
<p>A 32 will impress most ‘ordinary’ people and will get your application a serious looking-at at virtually any college not named Caltech. Personally though, I retook a 33 so I could see why someone would want to retake a similar score.</p>
<p>Anyway, going through the Caltech results thread makes me feel pretty insecure even though I’m not applying there. And I saw on an older thread (maybe a couple years old) that there was only 1 black female enrolled there at the time lol</p>
<p>I wish I could base my chances off other kids from my school. I’m not aware of anyone around here that has applied to Rice or UNC in the past few years. </p>
<p>I feel like I’m one of very few kids going for reaches at my school. Our salutatorian is applying to UIUC and Kansas, and that’s it. One of our vals is going for Ohio State, Bama, and a few other state schools. The other plans on going to a small local school for baseball.</p>
<p>Not that there’s anything wrong with going to any of those schools, because I’ll probably end up at a match/safety anyway. It’d just be nice to share the suspense.</p>
<p>Have done 2 subject tests, 1 sat, 1 act.
Oh and 5 AP tests. </p>
<p>Planning to take 1 more subject test, 1 more act, and 1 more sat.</p>
<p>If you feel that you can do better, go ahead and retake.
Otherwise, do something more useful. Whether 32 is a good score doesn’t matter because no one is ever going to tell you “you were rejected because you had a 32. We were looking for 33+. Soz. K. Thx. Bye. Tell your underclassmen to apply here”</p>
<p>If I get a 32 in September, I might not apply EA to some schools or ED because I need a 33+ to feel safe. I know it’s a point difference, but I feel like a 33+ propels my score into the 75th percentile for the schools I’m applying to. And I need that. I need a reason for colleges to accept me statistically.</p>
<p>I feel like at some point, a one point difference does matter at SOME colleges. Not Ivies or anything, but maybe state schools.</p>
<p>Going to jump in here as well – I got a 32 in the June ACT… should i retake? My scores were 33/36/29/29. As you can see, my issue is with time. I guessed the last 6 of reading and science, hence why the scores are lower in those sections. I’m applying to Ivies and other selective schools.</p>
<p>my subjects are 760 and 740</p>
<p>As they say at Thomas Jefferson, 2400/36 or get the !@$& out</p>
<p>Thanks for the input Apollo.</p>
<p>Two more days…</p>
<p>@TinnyT
“Indigo, if you don’t mind. Could you explain what you liked about UPenn’s campus. Does it feel big? How nice were the facilities? Is there a lot of green space for students to enjoy?”</p>
<p>The libraries were all very nice and all the facilities appeared to be on par with what I saw at Cornell and MIT - the Towne building which I guess is one of the main engineering buildings did look a bit old but all of the machines and computers looked new. I’d say the campus felt a bit small because of the number of buildings but there were several quad-type fields that I saw.</p>
<p>After finally putting my ideas on paper and reading my essay a couple of times, I really don’t appreciate the philosophical approach; I don’t like putting on the serious/deep-kid mask. I’m going to re-think and re-write it to make it a more fun-seriousesque type of essay. I don’t plan for my essay to come across humorous, I only wish to give it character.</p>
<p>^ I agree. I say don’t go with the philosophical approach unless that’s your personality.</p>
<p>Is anyone else struggling to write? I have conflicting feelings of feeling extremely far behind and knowing that I still have time…</p>
<p>I am. I’ve already written several essays but I have this vague feeling that I could do better if I really tried. And it’s frustrating because I haven’t actually written anything down for those better essays that are supposedly in my head. And I still have to do interviews and write several “why us” essays.</p>