all u complainers on 2100+

[CR7_ManUtd]

<p>Well.I myself scored 1800 on my first try in Jan (without studying much) and realize how awful and pathetic score this is.I will try to break this 2100 thing in June but even if I dont ,I wont be nervous just because someone else is happy with his score.But If I do ,I feel like telling this to all my friends and posting it in facebook.</p>

[112358]

<p>There’s a huge difference between bragging about your score and trying to improve your score.</p>

<p>No one needs to brag about their score. If you got a good score, great. Be happy. But don’t do anything that will make others feel like you’re rubbing it in their faces.</p>

<p>On the other hand, don’t get mad at someone who wants to improve their score, even if you think their score is already plenty good. All this does is make you look jealous of them. There’s nothing wrong with someone trying to do the best they can. Asking how to improve a score is not the same as “complaining” about that score.</p>

[An0maly]

<p>It is generally accepted that 2200 is average for Ivy’s, and 2100 is on the lower end. Although 2100 is an amazing score and certainly something to be proud of, it is considered low by a lot of people with really high expectations. </p>

<p>If you got an 1800, that’s still a pretty solid score. We don’t know your circumstances; for all we know, 1800 is in the upper range of your dream school and you are set. The people who complain about 2100+, however, are set on Ivy League or similar schools, and they know that their score does not give them an advantage or even place them near the median scores, so they wish to improve it.</p>

<p>People need to understand, however, that this is CC and too many people have a flawed view of SAT scores. We seem to think that our 1800 sucks or our 2100 is average despite the fact that even if it’s not impressive by CC’s standards, it is a stellar score in regards to all applicants.</p>

[JNE23]

<p>Just because 2100+ is better than the vast majority of SAT takers, doesn’t mean the people who score 2100+ should be complacent.</p>

<p>For those of you with 1600-1900, thats an above average score. The reason you might be upset with your score is the same reason 2100+ scorers aren’t completely happy with theirs.</p>

<p>Saying that people upset with 2100+ scores “have no lives” or are obsessive is just ignorant.</p>

<p>Everyone has his or her own standards to live up to, and everyone wants to make themselves better. Thats a fact of life. If you can’t live with that, and can’t see an issue from someone else’s perspective, then you shouldn’t waste your parents’ money on a college education.</p>

<p>There are going to be people around you doing better than you for your whole life, no matter who you are. Focus on making yourself better, not being bitter towards others.</p>

[Millancad]

<p>The following essay (from everything2) really shows why I think a lot of students are upset with their high scores.</p>

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The one and only time I took the SAT was in a time of considerable panic. A few months earlier – September of my senior year – I mentally blanked for about five minutes, and when I snapped out of it, I turned to my dad and said that I wanted to go to a certain major California university. I’m still not entirely sure what passed through my mind in those fateful five minutes, but I’m guessing it was some sort of realization that if I didn’t take this opportunity to get the hell out of Columbia, Missouri, I probably never would. My dad nodded and said, “I think you can make it.”</p>

<p>My enthusiasm for my education had been inconsistent, to say the least, and my grades reflected this. I had, I reassured myself, other things going for me, but I wondered how well my fondness for long walks on the beach at sunset would show up on paper. I marked on my application that no, I hadn’t taken the SAT, but I will on such-and-such a date: to wit, the latest possible. A few days after the actual application deadline, my ethical misgivings about spending valuable hours preparing for such cruel and arbitrary beasts as standardized tests having long since evaporated, I got my hands on an SAT prep book. The questions, I could see, were never really that difficult; I took a deep breath and decided I wouldn’t stop drilling myself on practice exams until 1600. I ignored the advice given in the book and did my own post mortems, diagnosing my errors and coming up with ways to transform the test from a contemplative to a purely mechanical process. I hit the caffeine, hard. “Unhealthy” doesn’t begin to describe the passionate flings I have with coffee, tea, and Mountain Dew while under stress; these two weeks were an ulcer-inducing honeymoon. A few days before the test, I saw that my score had risen from a worrying (but, in retrospect, very respectable and probably sufficient) first attempt of 1440 to not only my goal of 1600 but consistent 1600s. Saturday morning came, and Saturday morning went. I drove home, slowly, and let my eyes glaze over.</p>

<p>At the earliest available opportunity – from a pay phone at my high school – I called the ETS 1-800 number to check my score. 1590. “<strong><em>!" I yelled, no doubt audible to the administrative offices next to me; to this day I can’t say whether my full thoughts were "</em></strong> yeah!” or “**** no!” I had worked my ass off, and I had succeeded fantastically. I had nearly killed myself pursuing perfection, and I was being mocked by my own mistakes. A few weeks later the hard copy of my score report arrived: in the entire exam, I had missed all of one question. Make that “mistake,” singular. I have no fewer than three friends from my high school with 1600s to call their own, all of them having missed more than a few questions. “Statistically speaking, our scores are indistinguishable,” I consoled myself, “and in the end, what does it really matter?” A few weeks later, against expectation, the fat envelope came in the mail. I had been accepted to my College of Choice. A motor spun, a laser fired, and a Beethoven CD I had cued up in hopeful anticipation was finally permitted to rattle my windows with the finale to his Fifth Symphony. What does it really matter? It’s all right now.</p>

<p>That one missed math question still bothers me. I know it doesn’t matter. I know it’s crass to argue with a cashier over that penny they accidentally shortchanged me, I know it’s anorexic to skip another meal because, by god, I can be thinner, and I know that it’s unspeakably shallow to wonder whether I would be a better person if it weren’t for that one question. The SAT is artificial and error-prone in its attempt to assign a number to something as fuzzy, ill defined, and human as “intelligence,” and as such, was never intended to be, at its best, more than an educated guess. At its worst, the SAT is nothing less than everything wrong with modern education.</p>

<p>But it may well have been my one good shot at perfection. Artificial and error-prone, perhaps, but doing something, anything, not just well but perfectly carries with it an almost supernatural power. To err is human, they say. Had a single neuron, perhaps, fired differently, I would be the proud owner of some small piece of perfection, a fragment of the secret map that shows the way to the playground of the gods. It didn’t, of course, and I am instead reminded that I am inescapably human, and that to think otherwise, no matter what the circumstances, is self-delusion. I am reminded that the quest for perfection misses the point entirely, and that a universe of right answers can never get me what I really want. Humbled, I thank the test, and my one mistake, for robbing me of a few illusions. At its best, the SAT is able to point out flaws in our reasoning far subtler than forgetting to carry the one, if only we bother to look.

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<p>Btw, this was written before there was a Writing Section. But it explains beautifully that for a lot of us, this is our one shot at perfection.</p>

[112358]

<p>Great essay. Thanks for posting.</p>

[Avis]

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Very true guys the 2100+ scores are just people who obess over going to a IVY leage school like Harvard or something thats like 100000$ a year or some crap. Its pretty sad. I myself dont care wheter or not I go to the nations most presitgious schools just so i can brag about it. I just care about going to a mid level school which has my courses.

Wow. I’m not aiming for top colleges just so that I can brag about it, and I think this is true for everyone else. We want the best education possible and therefore “a mid level school” isn’t enough.</p>

[Bigb14]

<p>omg should I retake my 2300? I got 700CR 800M 800W… I really want to improve my CR score!!!</p>

<p>lol. Get over it. Just because you didn’t score as high as other people don’t mean you can deprecate those people. I agree that some people here take it too far, but generalizing to everyone who scored 2100+ is a bit harsh.</p>

[Lucifuger]

<p>The thing is, people who score 2100+ are most likely the same people looking at top tier colleges where 2100+ is the norm. Thus to make themselves stand out in that crowd of applicants, they feel like they need to score higher which is perfectly true. The people “complaining” aren’t complaining about the 2100 being a bad score. They’re complaining about it not being a score that doesn’t satisfy their own goal. I wouldn’t discourage that seeing as it’s always good to try to score higher. I agree that people who are overly dramatic about their scores may make people who didn’t do as well feel bad, but it’s not as if people complaining about their 2100+ are thinking of how it’ll make others feel. They’re thinking about how it affects their chances to get into the college they want. </p>

<p>The thread seems to be generated by a resultant jealousy from misunderstanding rather than logic.</p>

[daman11]

<p>people are just trying to give themselves the best opportunity(ies) in this dog eat dog world of college admission. if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen</p>

[ThisCouldBeHeavn]

<p>When I woke up early in the morning to check my score last year, I was incredibly disappointed to find I got 2160. True story. And I didn’t even practice - I got a 6 (out of 12) on my essay because I had no idea what I was doing.</p>

<p>At a certain point in life you have to realize that there are always going to be people that are just better than you at one thing or another. For these people, absolute failure may be better miles better than anything you can do. These people exist; either use them as motivation to improve yourself, or just ignore them. Complaining is not going to help anyone. If you’re truly offended you need to grow thicker skin.</p>