Improved Scores on SAT/ACT

srobin
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:34:30 +0000

This is to answer some of the latest questions posed to me. DS is not totally unhappy with UAB although he does consider it his safety school. For months all he taked about was UAB’s honors fast tract program (BS and Masters in 5 yrs). When he started scoring well on the ACT he started talking about much more selective schools. We have visited UAB and it has a nice campus and new dorms have been built and it’s improving all the time. They have an excellent medical school should he decide to go in that direction.

He is interested in either mathamatics ,engineering or maybe biomed. At first he swore that he was going to teach, now he says that he might do something else first and then teach. The degree will definitely be in one of those two fields.

He lives Vanderbilt because of the location, reputation etc. He thinks he has a chance of getting in. In less we are reading the stats wrong they list on their admissions page he falls somewhere in the 50% percentile. Am I reading other posts correctly does he need to be at the top of the percentage scale?
His EC’s are not that great. A few clubs, VP of chess club, a local one year student ambasador for the Chamber of Commerce, some work.

We have heard good things about Tulane and I love the ideal. It’s much closer to home at least he could come visit. We are planning to visit their campus. Is the priority application (the one where essay is not required binding)?

He is being flooded with mail every day from different schools some of which I have never heard of.

He is planning on taking the SAT one last time. As previously posted he does not understand why he only scored a 620 on the math since his practice tests were much higher and he makes A’s in his Alg 2/Trig class.

Thanks to everyone for helping me.