Now what?

Applying to College
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<p>I’m an international student. Just started senior year. Just got my ACT scores today (29 composite,25 in science screwed it up). Given the SAT twice before : superscore 2000 (1940,1970). Apart from weak SAT and ACT scores,
-an almost perfect GPA over the high school years
-the top 5% of my class with the hardest courses
-state level athlete
-a truckload of laurels in soccer
-school sports prefect
-80 hours of work experience at a local school for underprivileged kids
-been a soccer coach for slum children in an adjoining neighborhood for the past 8 months
-member of school societies (Debating club,environment club .etc.)
-belong to a very competitive private school (consistently send students to ivies)
-expecting really good LORs</p>

<p>I plan to major in physics. Dream uni is Amherst. Targeting others like UCB, UChicago, CMU, Bryn Mawr, Rice, and Northwestern. Looking at my stats and poor scores,should I just try my luck one last time with the September ACT?
Apart from great essays,anything else I could do to boost my chances of making it to a dream uni like Amherst?</p>

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<p>To be a strong candidate at any of those schools, you need to raise either the ACT or the SAT. Even if you succeed, that alone won’t guarantee acceptance, so you also need a solid safety - a school you know you can get into, that you can afford under the most pessimistic financial aid assumptions, and that you would be happy to attend.</p>