Sat Score of…?

I will be honest with you…It’s not a very good score. 1500 is the average score on the exam, so you are 300 pts higher than the average.If you want to get into any of the competitive universities, you need to get a higher score. I recommend tutorfox’s sat guide and the princeton review study guide as aids.

An 1800 is very low for the three colleges listed above. Duke’s 25th percentile got a 2070, Berkeley’s 25th percentile got 1790, Cornell’s 25th percentile got 1920. Your score is poor even compared to the very bottom of the middle 50% at those colleges.

I don’t think you’d have a shot at Berkeley if you’re out of state (competition is much harder if you’re not a CA resident). You scored significantly lower than at least 3/4 of Duke and Cornell students. Most “normal” applicants would do well to score above average and even scoring above their 75th percentile does not nearly guarantee an admit.

Unless you’re an underrepresented minority, are being recruited for athletics, or have some EXTRAORDINARY extracurriculars, both are going to be big reaches based on your SAT information.

I wouldn’t put much value into a “contact from Cornell” unless it’s for athletic recruiting or something like that. If you just mean mail that they send you advertising their colleges, then it’s completely worthless.

This score will get you into some, but not all top 50 colleges. With your scores, you probably don’t want to go much below the top 50 unless there is a strong honors program. Check the U.S. News and World Report, college edition at your local library. It ranks colleges and the SAT scores tend to inversely relate to the rank. Remember that athletes, minorities and legacies can pull down the overall SAT scores, so you may want to be on the high side if you don’t fit into those categories.

Part of the college ranking system depends on selectivity – the percentage of students who applied and were accepted. So if you are solicited by a school, check out that school’s statistics to see if they are soliciting you to better the stats or whether they may be truly interested in you.

its not bad. depending on whether you have a good gpa (3.8-4.0+) and good afterschool activities (sports, clubs, better with leadership roles too), then you might have a shot at more prestigious colleges like brown, tufts, etc. but it certainly won’t get you into harvard, princeton, cornell (cornell’s super hard on accepting people) unless if you are like an olympics gold medal or something.

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A lot of schools contact potential applicants. I mean some top colleges contacted me… but in the end not all of them accepted me. Contacting and accepting are totally different. Colleges have to look for a wide range of students. So if they contacted you in forms of paper, then … they are just encouraging you to apply, doesn’t neccessarily mean they are seriously considering you. For all you know, they are sending out papers of the same kind to a million others!

Unless if you mean they contacted you PERSONALLY, I guess then that’s something?

good luck!

ehh, it’s decent. depends on what college you want to get into.