international house: I'm a Hispanic male living in NYC Unweighted GPA: 86 Weighted GPA: 89 I took all honors courses except one math. I also took AP Biology, AP English, and AP Spanish. SAT: 1st time: Reading: 490 Math:550 Writing:500 2nd time: Reading: 600 Math: 590 Writing: 620 3rd time: I'm waiting for the scores to come in but focused on getting higher in math and reading. -Wrote a good essay. (can't really tell how good it is but yeah..) -I have 3 recommenders: my Master Sergeant (I'm in JROTC), the head of the forensic institute, and my chemistry teacher. Extra curricular's: -on a very demanding armed drill team for JROTC (3 hours everyday after school and 8 hour saturday practices) and won National Championship. #1 Armed drill team in the nation. -Over 500 hours of community service: includes food drives, clothes drives, marching in various parades, volunteering at nursing homes and Ronald McDonald home, and park clean ups among other things. -Won a full scholarship to attend Michigan Tech University for 2 weeks to study civil engineering during my summer after my sophomore year. -In Aspira (Hispanic heritage club) -in Arista (National Honor Society) -Gateway (honors program for Hispanic and black students) -in JROTC -on my school newspaper (wrote articles for it) Other schools I'm applying to: Stony Brook U Albany U Buffalo Boston University Hofstra Quinnipiac Pace U at New Paltz U at Old Westbury Hunter College Baruch College Queens College My top choice would be Binghamton. What do you think my chances are at these schools? Is there anything I could do at this point to improve my chances?|||yep, why go there tho? its not special? I would say Baruch and Hunter are most competitive in NYC as public schools go to collegeboard.com you will see admitted acceptance rate. its low.