<p>i am an african american female intersted in the sciences my scores are 3.55 gpa and 580 math 500 verbal 560 writing 22 act and 12 on the essays( perfect score). i h ave been to governor school sophmore and junio ryear, howard hughes, medical forum in medicine( national leadership forum) pres and ofunder of catholic club and art club and minority club at school what are my chances of boston college and middlebury? by the way excellent essay and excellent letters of recommendation. first generation to get a bachelors degree in this country.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, your chances look really g-
Wait, did you say AFRICAN AMERICAN?
Ok sorry but you’ve got no chance. You might as well give up now.</p>
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<p>Kidding! Your chances look great, and your ECs look particularly impressive to me. Your GPA is also more than adequate. If your recs and essay are, as you say, excellent, well then that’s the cherry on the cake, isn’t it. I wouldn’t worry if I were you. In my honest but relatively rookie-esque opinion, you’re more than a match for these schools.</p>
<p>you have a slim chance at the ivies, primarily bc of your scores… 1080 isn’t in the range.</p>
<p>btw, if you’re “first generation in this country”, then that’s really not the same thing as “first generation”</p>
<p>They are reach schools. Your 500 verbal score particularly will hurt you because excellent reading skills are very important to colleges no matter what major you’re planning to go into. </p>
<p>There definitely are many colleges that would gladly accept you, but your verbal score especially is very low for the two colleges that you mentioned. Even your being a minority and first generation college may not boost you with those scores since there are many black and first generation college students with much higher verbal scores.</p>
<p>Are you taking the SAT I again? Since you got a 12 on the essay, I am guessing that your 500 verbal does not reflect your real abilities. I am wondering whether you didn’t manage your time right on the test or if you skipped questions that you weren’t 100% sure of the answers to. If you can narrow the answer to 2-3 possibilities, it’s worth it to guess because you only lose 1/3 of a point for a wrong answer, but you lose 1 full point for a blank.</p>
<p>It definitely helps to use the tips on the College Board site, and to use a book like “10 Real SATS” so as to do the best that you are capable of on those tests. If there’s any way that you can retake the SAT, I recommend that you do so. You may be able to do this standby if it’s too late to sign up for the Jan. or Feb. testing. Even if the colleges want earlier tests, if you did well on a retake, you could send them your scores, and they may take those into consideration for admissions purposes.</p>
<p>i think you have an excellent chance at Middlebury, They crave for students like you. Middlebury has the highest admission rate for african americans in the country, beating all the other schools with a jaw-dropping 70% rate.</p>
<p>“. Middlebury has the highest admission rate for african americans in the country, beating all the other schools with a jaw-dropping 70% rate.”</p>
<p>Just because Middlebury accepts 70% of the black students who apply doesn’t mean that the college will accept a black student whose verbal score is far below their average. This is why the schools that she listed still are reach schools.</p>
<p>I agree, these schools are still reaches. I’d bet your scores are in the lower 30% of African Americans who applied. Try to improve the scores and you will have a good shot.</p>
<p>these are all my schools:</p>
<p>boston college
tulane
vassar
tufts
wellesley
barnard
bu
byu
american
gwu
middlebury</p>
<p>Ivy? With 1080? Meh…it would be worth it to apply maybe but it would be quite a stretch. Maybe I am being overly pessimistic but it seems like all the schools on your list but BU, GWU, and American are reaches. Is BYU Brigham Young? If so I am guessing that would be a safety. I’m an AA male and I have decent scores (1370 SAT I) but not so good GPA (3.3-3.4). and got an 8 on the essay. Not the best EC’s ever but I like to learn to do stuff myself. We could combine to make the super applicant! lol. My list is also very reach heavy…good luck!</p>
<p>If you were applying this session, I would say that your list is extremely top heavy and you will be setting your self up for some major disappointments come april as your scores and you GPA are both low for the majority of the schools that are on your list. At most of the schools you are looking at you are a good 200 points below the 25th percentile of scorers.</p>
<p>Regarding SAT scores -they are taken into consideration in context of one’s enviornment. A 1300 from a student from a single parent household, public school who works part time to help the family is going to be viewed differently than a 1300 from an intact 2 parent household where one or both parents are professionals. High SES, private school (or premier public school). SATs are also going to be taken in content of the average scores of the school which you attend. If you attend an elite private school where the average score is 1410, your 1300 does not put you competitively in the pool. You wrote that your cousin is from a single parent home, that too is going to be all relative . A stdent from a single parent household is going to be looked at differently from a child froma single parent household who is college educted or a professional. I too am a single parent but I hold 2 master’s degree and beginning work on my Phd, as I stated before it’s all relative. </p>
<p>Over the next few years, the competition to get into college especially selective schools is going to be really stiff just because of the sheer number of applicanats (this includes URMs). </p>
<p>According to the article:</p>
<p>Black Participation in Particular Advanced Placement Courses</p>
<p>In 2004 more than 78,000 African-American students took Advanced Placement examinations. Blacks now make up 5 percent of all Advanced Placement test takers nationwide. For both blacks and whites, English literature, American history, English composition, and calculus were the most popular AP courses. Blacks were 6.9 percent of all students who took the AP test in French literature. This was the highest participation percentage for any of the 34 AP subject tests. Blacks were also at least 6 percent of all test takers in the subject areas of English literature, world history, macroeconomics, and French language. </p>
<p>The lowest level of black participation was on the Spanish literature test. Only 56 black students nationwide took the AP test in Spanish literature in 2004. They were only 0.6 percent of all test takers in this subject. Blacks were also less than 2 percent of all AP test takers in the subject areas of electrical and magnetic physics, Spanish language, computer science, and German. </p>
<p>Even though you are a “first generation in this country to attend college” your would not be considered a first generation college student because it means not having a parent who went to college any where.</p>
<p>If you are a junior, my advice is to work on raising your score. I would recommend the 10 real SATs (to practice the test) . I would also recommend:</p>
<p>The RocketReview Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT (Paperback)</p>
<p>Gruber’s Complete Preparation for the New SAT, 10th Edition (Gruber’s Complete Preparation for the Sat) (Paperback) -This is one of the best books that I have seen for breaking down the information</p>
<p>I think that you should also concentrate on raising is grades (while there may be a little slack given on the SAT scores, your high school record, rigor of curriculum and rank -for schools that rank are still the number one factor in admissions). You should look into not only taking the most rigerous courses, but doing well in those classes.</p>
<p>Your unweighted GPA is extremely low for the schools that you are considering. Many of the schools end up unweighing your GPA’s (calculating it on a 4.0 scale) as it is almost a given that applicants are taking AP/Honors courses (if the school provides those courses)</p>
<p>i have also applied to simmons college, spelman, and drexel</p>
<p>You may end up getting in to spelman, but your stats are not high enough where as you would get any kind of merit money. Be prepared to be a full paying student.</p>
<p>Drexel- 47.2% of the freshman class falls into the SAT verbal range that you present. 36.9% of the 2009 freshman class fall into the SAT Math range as you.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.drexel.edu/provost/ir/cds2005/2005c.html[/url]”>http://www.drexel.edu/provost/ir/cds2005/2005c.html</a></p>
<p>Okay Does Anyone Have Of These Wacky Success Stories Of Getting Into Schools Even Though They Are Not Qualified. I Need Some Hope. Haha</p>
<p>Why would you want to go to a school for which you are not qualified? You would be paying tuition (probably) for an experience that would likely be stressful and unsuccessful.</p>
<p>I agree with lkf725. There’s no point in going to a college that you’re unqualified for because you’d flunk out.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, because you got a 12 on the SAT writing, I suspect that your SAT v underestimates your abilities. As I mentioned before, I’m guessing that you didn’t know how to take the SAT v test, and so may not have used your time well (thus, perhaps running out of time) or may have skipped questions unless you were 100% sure of the answers.</p>
<p>That’s why I suggest that you study for the test and then retake it. You probably can retake it on standby if it’s too late to sign up for it. The colleges that you mentioned here are very interested in attracting qualified black students, so if you do well on the retake, the colleges may accept you even though your second SAT was after the time that they normally will review.</p>