<p>i don't get when people say "bad test taker" </p>
<p>i mean, dont you take tests in your classes? finals? midterms?</p>
<p>if you are a "bad test taker," then you'd definitely perform horribly in college since college class grades are usually 50 - 100% based on tests.</p>
<p>btw, SAT iis test you on what you KNOW. if you didnt do well on those, then it definitely means that you haven't learned much in school.</p>
<p>anyone with an IQ above 130 would have very little toruble ACING the test w/ minimal prep.</p>
<p>I have an IQ of 127, and on my first try I only got a 2010 on the SAT lol.</p>
<p>yeah, that iq argument was a bit stupid on your part, but i believe colleges look beyond your SAT scores (although it is low and you should have tried harder. i'm guessing you concentrated on your school work a lot to have a 4.0 gpa and to be a #1 in your class... colleges might think you didn't really balance yourself out)... hopefully you wrote good essays and had phenomenal recommendations. and did you apply to wharton(for upenn)? because i heard that it is a bit easier to get in if you didn't apply to wharton.</p>
<p>my best wishes.</p>
<p>I thought smart people are smart enough not to try and show they are smart. Hmm... I can start a research paper disproving that! Woo Hoo!!!</p>
<p>lol, my IQ is 156, but that doesn't mean **** in the real world....</p>
<p>i know i'll sound retarded, but thomas edison did say genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration...being naturally smart doesn't give you anything...working hard does....and if you work hard enough, you'll get those SAT's up...its just common sense</p>
<p>Some of you are very hard on each other. When you get to college, read Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences; IQ's and SAT's only measure two of seven kinds of intelligence (rational, analytical) but don't touch: musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and one more that I can't remember right now. There are also those who work well under timed tests but don't compose a good essay, unlike the OP who got an 11/12 on her SAT-I Writing essay, even under timed pressure. Whoever said on this site that OP has "no chances" should learn a lot more about communication and motivating others. I know it's the style among kids to be brutally honest, but this post fairly ripped the OP apart. Why do that? She has a gappy presentation, with strengths and weaknesses. Schools that put lesser or no emphasis on SAT's have made those choices for a reason. Too many high-scorers with insufferable personalities, once they arrive on campus, who give nothing out to the community. Ease up.</p>
<p>You are absolutely right paying3tuitions...but, the colleges that the OP has asked chances for do give the SAT's considerable weight, and I think that's why everybody is saying the OP has little or no chance...the OP obviously does have a chance, but its all apart of the college game... and trying to get in
besides who said that you're definitely going to be more successful graduating from Harvard then Howard? There are different definitions of success, different areas of focus, and the colleges that the OP selected will want to see higher SAT scores...if you look at their stats, with the exception of penn state...the majority of students with writing and verbal scores in that range for those colleges were rejected.</p>
<p>One of the posters above had said something about Bowdoin, Newbury, etc not asking for SAT scores...they could be great schools for the OP</p>
<p>After getting deferred from UPenn, obviously there is something unique about the OP, but the chances that people gave were realistic...maybe they should've put it in more euphemistic terms, but based on just statistics, the poster's chances are low. I don't think that anybody was saying the OP was stupid or anything.</p>