<p>So I got a 34 on the ACT and a 2150 on the SAT (1400 M + CR)</p>
<p>Obviously my ACT score is higher and basically everyone on here told me to just send my ACT. However, I ended up sending my SAT I scores to Stanford, Rice, Harvard and Duke unknowlingly when I sent my SAT Subject Tests to these universities (apparently the free score reports send everything...not just the Subject Tests I was planning on taking).</p>
<p>So, am I screwed? I feel like I made a major mistake...</p>
<p>Also, not sure if it matters, but my SAT Subject test scores were:
Math II - (750)
Biology - (760)
Chemistry - (790)</p>
<p>So a 2300 composite for the SAT II</p>
<p>Yes you are screwed big time.</p>
<p>^ I can’t decide whether to be scared, midely upset, or irritated. Either sarcasm is seeping from your message and I am too naive to understand or your blunt seriousness is piercing like a knife and I’m in body armor. Either way, your reponse is not much help :)</p>
<p>Anyone else? If I am screwed, perhaps a bit of advice could be offered. Hardly seems fair to let one’s boat sink without throwing at least some arm floaties.</p>
<p>It was sarcasm. I sent my 28 ACT to Caltech, Stanford and I forgot the other two. I am the screwed one here.</p>
<p>Yes, but you can always send the scores…you just have a pay a bit out of bank.</p>
<p>And truthfully, I’m sorry if my message comes across conceited. Obviously I’m quite pleased with both scores and shouldn’t be complaining. I’m just the type of person who, if rejected, would overanalyze everything and blame myself for sending the SAT scores. I just want to have the best chance possible. Don’t we all? :)</p>
<p>My son sent every score to every school. His ACT was 35, his SAT was 700CR, 750M, 800W. Math SAT II was 780. His other SAT II was around 700. Unweighted GPA was 4.0, weighted was 4.65. No hooks, strong EC’s but nothing spectacular.</p>
<p>He was rejected by Stanford, UPenn and Brown. Waitlisted at Rice. Accepted at Vanderbilt, UNC, U-Md, College of William and Mary, U-Va, Villinova and Wake Forest.</p>
<p>I can’t think that it hurts to have sent all the scores. Its my understanding that they’ll look at your best scores of those you sent.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Honestly, ACT and SAT mean nothing. I find those tests absurdly ridiculous. Now, I am not bashing cause I got a terrible score. I got a 32 the second time around; that is average of 4 wrong on each section. I find it ridiculous because it shows absolutely nothing except for the fact that the student can adequately answer all the questions. It does not go beyond Geometry; how does that measure a student’s ability to succeed in a college environment? It does not, unless that students is trying to get an associates degree in agriculture or something.</p>
<p>^ waitlisted at Rice? Wow, that’s a bit shocking! Or maybe I’m crazy…I would have expected he would have been accepted. Those are great credentials!</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m hoping they take the best score…and if not, I hope a 2150 wouldn’t be held against me…at least not a lot :/</p>
<p>Thanks for the input though! Just a questions. Did your son have good essays? Obviously a bit of a subjective question, but thought I might ask. Did he spend a lot of time on them?</p>
<p>Simply wondering because I’m debating retaking the SAT or instead, using my extra time that I would have spent studying on my essays.</p>
<p>@Davidthefat</p>
<p>I completely agree! Both tests are quite literally meant to test the test takers test taking ability (trying saying that 3 times fast). I have a 4.0uw GPA with numerous AP classes, yet struggle with standardized testing. </p>
<p>However, until colleges reach educational enlightenment, I suppose I will have to feign interest.</p>
<p>Salsa, it was sort of a weird year in our little part of the world. Usually a couple of kids in the surrounding high schools get accepted at Rice every year. I don’t know of anyone from around here who got accepted this year, and only one other kid who got waitlisted.</p>
<p>His essays were excellent, I thought. He worked on them during the summer. I’m assuming his recommendations were strong. I didn’t see them. His EC’s were strong, but he didn’t do original research on cancer, or anything like that. Just a strong, well rounded kid. </p>
<p>I know Rice had a record number of applications this year, and I don’t think they took anyone off their waitlist. You just can’t kill yourself trying to figure out the whys and why nots of who gets in and who doesn’t. There wasn’t anything about my son’s application that you could point to and say, “Ah ha! There’s the reason they didn’t take him!” You may have just what they’re looking for next year.</p>