350 point sat jump!

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<p>hey guys, im a high school senior and this is what happened:
i decided to take sat last year in december and dint go through any books or anything and thought that it was bs and easy (im international btw) so i dint study AT ALL.
when i gave sat i realized how stupid id been and got a mere 1930.
math- 720
cr- 610
writing- 600</p>

<p>i decided to work for my next sat and get a 700+ in all 3 sections.
i gave it in june and got a 2280! waaay more than i expected but anyway.
math-770 (just 1 omit !!! i hate the curve !)
cr- 770 (does this look good coz most asians i know got like 650-680)
writing - 740</p>

<p>does this 350 point improvement look good or does my original score make it look bad ? </p>

<p>thanks in advance :)</p>

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<p>Unless I’m mistaken, the SAT now allows you to do score reports with individual tests. So if you want, you can just send the 2280 to Princeton.</p>

<p>But I think even if you were to send both, they wouldn’t look down on it because 1) you still obtained a high score, and 2) your 350-point improvement is pretty impressive.</p>

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<p>cr_freak no need to repost this in every ivy league school thread</p>

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<p>nope. thats why i only posted it on the 4 i was applying to :slight_smile:
i wanted to get each schools perspective on this.</p>

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<p>Princeton loves to pick up high-scoring Asian males. You’re in luck!</p>

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<p>^
What are you talking about!?! We are the group that gets screwed the most by Affirmative Action! They don’t “love” to pick us up, they try to limit our numbers.</p>

<p>cr_freak, if you can, I would retake it. Don’t get me wrong, 2,280 is a fantastic score, but like I said, we get screwed so it’s really only looked at as average. I’d try to raise it to a 2,350 or higher if you could. But if not, it’s still OK.</p>

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<p>I’m only hazarding a guess, but I think kwu was being sarcastic…</p>

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<p>This time, I wasn’t being sarcastic.</p>

<p>Princeton accepts over one-fourth of students who score in the 99th percentile on the SAT.</p>

<p>Observe the trend over the years:</p>

<p>Class of 2008: 12.7 percent Asian-American
Class of 2009: 13.3 percent Asian-American
Class of 2010: 14.4 percent Asian-American
Class of 2011: 15.0 percent Asian-American
Class of 2012: 16.7 percent Asian-American</p>

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<p>Saugus: lol!! SAT is too painful. sitting there for 4 hours solving boring questions is too much for me to do again. so if i dont get in coz my 2280 is too low then id rather not go…</p>

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<p>heh! I’m no an Asian American, but I’m an ethnic Chinese from a competitive Asian country (Singapore) and so maybe I got into Princeton because they liked my 2400 SAT I! Not complaining, of course.</p>