Undergrad: Where could I go and still have a shot of making it?

Hello! Okay so I took the SAT for the first time on saturday and...needless to say I'm pretty sure I fucked up. I was nervous already and the fact that I started panicking didn't help. However, my GPA is a 4.6 and I'm in the top 5% of my school, which is one of the top ranked private high schools in my country. I have a ton of extracurriculars and volunteer work, but I'm worried that the SAT will tank all of my chances at getting into the schools I wanted. On top of that, I need financial aid. I registered for the Dec 2 SAT, but I'm not sure of how well I'll do since standardized testing and timing per section make me nervous as hell. I was thinking of applying to U of Rochester, UPENN and UT-AUSTIN since they don't ask for the SAT and just the TOEFL and I'm sure I'll do better at that one. What are some schools that I could apply for and still have a shot at getting a decent internship/job? Thank you!

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Not sure of any school that don't take SAT and is still easy to attend for good jobs.

It sounds like you're asking for an elite school that takes 1 year to graduate

don't you think

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Dude, no need to be an ass about it. I'm an international student, there's school that don't ask for it when it comes to internationals. How do I sound like I'm asking for a school that takes 1 year to graduate? I was asking for options from people who've heard about any other schools, that's all. I'll be studying a bachelors not a masters.

 

I thought about it, but in my country after the 9th grade you enter a program called the bachillerato (kind of like IB) where the classes you take are focused on the major you want to study in college and I chose business, so most of the classes I took were accounting, marketing, economics, etc related. So I don't think the ACT's science focus would help me much. But I've noticed that in the ACT practices the questions are more straightforward and less tricky than the SAT ones?

 

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