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mamabear232
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:54:32 +0000

@violingirl28 Your SAT is a very respectable result for most colleges in this country but not at the tippy top reaches that you’ve listed in your first post. If I remember correctly, one of @Chembiodad 's daughters applied to Middlebury with stellar grades and a 35 superscore on the ACT and was denied. For test optional, like Bowdoin, the other elements of your application will have to be stellar.

I reiterate my recommendations made in post #10. You are just below the median SAT for last year’s admitted class at Oberlin so it’s a reach, but not a completely unrealistic one. The others are more likely.

My daughter applied to many of the schools listed above (Wooster/St Olaf/Dickinson/Oberlin) because of her EC interest in music and the performing arts. They are all wonderful schools, each with their own unique character, and it was difficult to choose among them. If you watch some music videos from St Olaf and/or Oberlin Conservatory on youtube you will surely be impressed. Both are strong in the sciences.