<p>So, I'm being pressured by my parents to take the SAT again, mostly because my math score is a 460 (who's bad at math, I am!). Now, my other scores are both above 600, which, while not great, are decent, and I'm not really too worried as I'm applying to art schools and I have a 3.4 GPA. </p>
<p>My question is should I take the SAT again to raise my math score or should I just not worry about it?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it, most art school don’t even bother to look at your SAT scores. Just take a look at their admission page.</p>
<p>Do you think you can up the math score, have you practiced much?
If yes, why not?
It will put you in good academic merit aid spot for less tippy-top schools.
my kid’s math score was about that and with much lower GPA than you, still offered “academic” money from some of the schools.
As long as your work is OK, no problem getting in without retaking, again, if you are not going for top-top - like, for RISD, it is safer to have 600-600 sh 1200.
Reading writing is somewhat more important, and your essay or statement should reflect that. Do spell and fact check if you use any artist’s or method, period names in your writing.
I read in somewhere there were always misspelled Carnegie Mellon as fruit melon, collage and college mixed up, Shakespeare or Picasso, lithograph or acrylic spelled wrong.</p>
<p>OK…full disclosure… I am a math-loving mom who really wants kids to always maximise their options. But I am also the mom of an art student and want to support his choice of career. </p>
<p>First off…as a parent, I see this as non-negotiable. Your parents have asked you to use a single Saturday morning to do something that they think is important for your future. Enough said. Do it. oh yeah, and tell them thank you and that you love them too. </p>
<p>Apart from being a dutiful son/daughter why should you be thanking them for paying for a second SAT? 1) you may change your mind about art school and SATs are necessary for transfer, 2)art schools DO care about SATs…RISD is the first to point out how high their students’ GPA/SAT scores are and my S received some substantial merit aid based on his SAT scores (only a 3.5 GPA) and 3) reading and writing scores generally increase the second time so it would be foolish not to get the easy bump from that second round. Alternatively, you could try taking the ACT because the math is much more straight forward than on the SAT although it does go up into pre-calc. </p>
<p>Last, why don’t you actually study for the math? Just buy the book and take a few more practice tests. there are some practice quesitons on the college board web site also. The questions get progressively harder in the math sections so don’t try to master the tricky ones at the end of the sections. If you are missing questions early in the math sections, look at why you got them wrong…frequently it is merely because you misunderstood the question. They definitely try to trick you with the wording/format of the questions in the beginning but the math itself is quite easy for the first 20 questions. </p>
<p>Good luck with the SAT and the whole application process!</p>
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