What are my chances?

alexisssa
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:33:11 +0000

Do clubs matter? In all of the articles I’ve read, I feel like most colleges stressed the importance of talents and passions over clubs and volunteering.
I’m worried. I hope my role as a concertmistress will be enough “leadership wise.” Although if I do go to China this summer, I will be organizing the trip. I’m trying to find as many people as I can to come with me, so I can plan out the whole trip myself. Most of those teen organizations that allow kids to volunteer abroad are usually extremely expensive and usually allot half of the time abroad for sightseeing. I don’t want to sightsee.
As for the SATs, I’m obviously going to work to improve my score and try to make sure I get a higher one. I think part of my low scores might’ve been that I had forgotten to pack my calculator at the last minute (which caused me to skip one or two problems and have slightly inaccurate answers on others) and I also didn’t get much sleep the night before, so I started to get really nauseous by the end of the test.
What kind of scores are they looking for on the SAT subject tests? I know they require three, which is a lot more than most other schools…