<p>Hey guys, I’m an international student applying for some selective liberal arts schools. I have spent the last 3 years of my highschool in a private highschool in US.</p>
<p>My CR+M SAT is around 1400, but my writing score is around 500 because I am an international and grammar things don’t make as much sense to me as it would to a native speaker.</p>
<p>I was wondering how would my score affect my college applications and my chances of getting in. I am currently applying to these colleges below ;</p>
<p>Bates
Colby
Colgate
Earlham
Emory
Hamilton
Macalester
Providence College
Skidmore
St. Lawrence
Union
University of Rochester
Hofstra University</p>
<p>and Harvard and Yale as reach++'s</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Oh, forgot to mention I also took SAT for 2nd time yesterday, just to increase my writing scores. But not sure how that will turn out :)</p>
<p>its very well above average. On CC, many people might say its not good, and idk how the international standards work (you might have to score higher because its harder to get into college if ur an international student, im not 100 percent sure about this though), but try applying to selective colleges that dont care about writing score, but yes, your writing score does significantly pull down your total SAT score. its only 1900 which isnt commendable. i would consider your score is out of range for almost all the top 20 colleges, but some of the colleges on your list seem very reasonable.</p>
<p>i lived in USA since i was one year old and i got a 1380 (CR + Math). i got a 750 in writing though. wish i scored higher in CR, but still considered a good score by many.</p>
<p>sorry i dont know too much about the colleges you are asking for, but i would assume emory, harvard, and yale are all out of reach or very high reaches.</p>
<p>So, when you say around 1400, what are your exact scores?? Emory and any of the Ivies are probably out of reach, unless you have amazing grades, EC’s and volunteer. St. Lawrence and Providence you should be ok with.Also, if you are in the US now at a private HS, why is you CR so low? IF you are still in states, have you tried the ACT’s?? my kids all agreed they were easier, and they scored much higher on them.</p>
<p>Please understand that you have a counselor at your private hs who will know much more about your viability at those school than most any poster here. They are professionals and it is their job, so they have many years experience with this. Also they know how students from your HS do at those colleges. It looks like you have a thoughtful list (except H+Y) and should have no problem at some and a shot for all.</p>
<p>I agree with BrownParent, your list is a good cross-section of matches, high to low; PC might be a safety. I would be surprised if you didn’t get into all if not most of them, with the exception of H&Y of course.</p>
<p>@Brownparent Problem with my hs counselor is that the old one who worked in my school for years and years was let go for some stupid reason, now we have a college counselor who don’t know us that well or has a lot of experience, pretty crappy situation to happen in my senior year :(</p>
<p>I also have a 3.6 GPA with full IB in a non-native language and some pretty great EC’s and work experience. </p>
<p>I was hoping my TOEFL will make up for my writing score, since its pretty high (109)</p>
<p>I retook SAT in december, so my CR+M should come close to 1450, and I definitely did better at writing after studying parallelism and all that. When native speaker reads a sentence, it sounds wrong to them. But not to me, probably because I wasn’t raised with the language.</p>