My sat score is 1370 and I am very involved with my community. From being an animal rights activist to sitting on a county board, I literally take every opportunity that comes my way. I manage finances at my family’s business, am secretary of NHS, treasurer for Nationals Spanish Honor Society, and was historian and editor for Key Club. I am a member of 6 clubs (including honor societies), am trilingual, have volunteered in Jamaica, have created a free website where you can take pledges for various causes. I also figure skate, dance, and take theatre classes!! I know my sat and gpa are too low, but will an Ivy League at least consider me because of all of the after school activities that I participate in?
@F123alice Do you have any hooks?
what is your UW GPA? A weighted GPA is harder to use.
If you UW GPA is 3.8-3.9 I would say your good enough but you won’t get in with that SAT score.
@kjake2000 It’s 3.93
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@VANDEMORY1342 I think that figure skating would help me stand out? Not many people even know how to ice skate. I am only intermediate though
To answer your original question, yes, your SAT score is almost certainly too low for Ivy League schools. It sounds like you have very good extracurricular accomplishments, but so does nearly everyone else applying to these schools. Definitely retake or try the ACT if you want a decent shot at the Ivies. Also remember though not to limit yourself to those 8 schools. Do more research into schools where your score would be near the accepted average.
Yes …so much more than just Ivy
Well…I know kids with lower SAT scores and they still got into Harvard and Brown. Nonetheless to be safe you need to take the SAT again. Also, do you have subject tests?
^ There are still 25% of kids got accepted with scores below the mid 50. However, what would be the chance of that when the students accepted with mid 50 scores are already in single digit percentage rate? Most of those accepted with low score have hooks, legacy, first gen student, URM, excellent EC, and/or combinations of them.
Try to get that SAT above a 1450-1500 since you still have time to take the SAT. However, your chances are still very low. What’s your class rank?
@RMNiMiTz I attend a school for the academically gifted so we do not have class ranks.
Did your PSAT qualify for NMF or NMSF?
That is a VERY low score for someone applying to an ivy. You have great ECs but so do the majority of other ivy applicants who all have 1500+ their SATs. Apply if you really want to, but understand your chances are very, very slim.
@RMNiMiTz With an SAT score of 1370, it would be hard to imagine a much higher PSAT score (~1450+) to make OP NMSF. Also, it is all speculation for junior right now as the cut off is not known yet. After all, Ivies do not really care as their admission averages are much higher than the cutoff. NMSF is dime a dozen among their applicants.
The only kids I know who got into Ivies with such stats - Athletes with top ranks - URM (esp. African-Americans… Hispanics are getting more competitive these days) - First-Gen (dirt poor also) - unique personal challenges during HS yrs (ex. chemotherapy for cancer etc). Otherwise, with whites and Asians, and non-nationally ranked athletes - pretty much no chance. JMHO. PS - The Ivies did take in kids with ACT 29-31 but those are rare exceptions with the above hooks, most regular applicants will have no such luxuries.
With no hooks, your chances are slim to none.
I agree with all of the above, despite the impressive EC’s, not one in particular would standout that would overshadow the low SAT’s. If you were a highly ranked figure skater, not sure if there is such a thing, then the colleges may use that as a hook, but being just an intermediate level athlete is no more than just another EC. Even for a recruited athlete, despite how badly the coaches want them on their team, less than 1500 on the SAT for a non income producing sport athlete would be very difficult to pass the Ivy admissions committee.
I had a 1460 on my PSAT, and had a terrible first try on the SAT and made a 1380on the SAT, so in my perspective, its not hard to imagine OP could have possibly done the same.
@RMNiMiTz Was your first SAT score before 11th grade PSAT? I can see one has a low first score for SAT. But if OP has a much better PSAT score, he/she would probably mention a retake already rather than asking for chance with an unexpectedly low score.