Are these scores good?

<p>Math II 780
Chem 740</p>

<p>I know they're above average but I'm looking at like...Stanford so are these scores competitive in schools of that caliber?</p>

<p>Also I'll be taking Bio-M and Physics this december...and I think I should get at least 700 on those too.</p>

<p>That was a crappy test though, my calculator ran outta battery in the middle of Math II and I skipped a question on Chem without skipping that number on the answer sheet...and found out like 20 questions later.</p>

<p>Math 2 is must have 800... Very generous curve. I mean it's must have if you aim for top universities</p>

<p>No, Alone. Anything above a 750 Math 2 is fine. The "generous curve" is there to make the scaled score mean something, not to devalue it.</p>

<p>I got a 720 in my math 2 :( :(</p>

<p>How bad is it? I want to get in engg</p>

<p>It's not "bad", but it won't help you much.</p>

<p>I got a 760 on the Math 2. Do you think the curve was harder than usual?</p>

<p>Atachnotron, I mean he is applying Stanford... Isn't math 2 800 must have? It's like for chinese people getting <800 on chinese, because as long as you get 800 you are fine (they don't see the raw score, so if you have 60% you still get 800), but if you do less - it means you got <60%?</p>

<p>^Bro, I omitted 9 and got a 780. I have no words...</p>

<p>That's what I'm talking about, shiomi. You can make about 7 mistakes and get 800. Colleges know that.</p>

<p>Let's pretend that we don't know they know that.</p>

<p>That way we can be happy.</p>

<p>math is cool
chem a little bit weak
mine
math800chem780</p>

<p>No Chinese would waste time to take Sub_Chinese...</p>

<p>ya they're good man
i have a 510 in chem if it make you feel better</p>

<p>You don't need to get an 800, though if you are applying for engineering at a top engineering school a score under 750 MIGHT hurt you a little. I seem to recall that MIT said in their admissions blog a few years ago that 700+ is good enough. Here are admissions statistics for this past year at MIT - as you can see 25% of the class had less than a 740 on the math subject test. MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics</p>

<p>Thanks guys. Seeing how I won't have another shot at these two this year, I'll just put my hopes in my application to Rotary Youth Exchange so I can have another chance next year...plus I get to be trilingual!</p>

<p>I know I can do so much better though, I was almost panicking after my calculator died when I was taking Math II. I know it doesn't help your calculations that much but it gave me this huge mental meltdown and that 10 minutes wasted on chem changing my answers back didn't help me either...</p>

<p>Btw I'm chinese, so uh...I have to get that 800...more or less.</p>