<p>eastcoascrazy, don’t worry about it. I may have overreacted a little, but only because I knew much less about how I would come off in college admissions at the beginning of this thread (yesterday morning?) than I do now.</p>
<p>To everyone else, thank you so much for all of the helpful input. There have been too many great posts in this thread for me to respond to all of them, but I’d just like to say that I now feel exponentially more secure about finding a great school with potential merit aid than I did yesterday.</p>
<p>…I think I’m going to ask my parents to visit USC with me instead of UC Berkeley 
PolarBearVsShark: One good thing about my score is that I don’t need to take the SAT again - I don’t know if you could say the same thing for a 2500. 833.3 writing? 18.2 essay score?</p>