<p>I am a senior at a New York public high school. My current SAT score is 2060, 760 verbal, 700 writing, 600 math. I have three AP scores of 5, and am set to take for more APs in the year to come. I have a 750 on the Lit, a 690 on the World History, and a 680 on the Biology SAT IIs. I am applying ED. Are these scores good enough?</p>
<p>Should I take the October SAT? Should I take the ACT in October?</p>
<p>600M is so far below the 25%ile that I would re-take. What do you have to lose? Just make sure it doesn't take away from doing a good job on the application.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. V helpful.</p>
<p>yeah, you're clearly a great English student, (CR, writing and Lit), but everything else is a bit weak. I'd definitely try to boost those non-English scores.
Also, all of my friends who didn't like their SAT scores took the ACT and were much happier. I don't know that test too well because my SATs were fine, but I'd recommend you look into it.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies.</p>
<p>question. do you have any fav prep courses for math SAT?</p>
<p>IMHO nothing helps quite as much as sitting down and doing it yourself. Prep courses are a waste of money. Tenacity and smart work will get you the score you need (In this case, I should think at least a 660-700) Is it already an improvement from your PSAT math score?</p>
<p>Yeah, a slight improvement from the PSAT score. Any fav books, kaplan etc?</p>
<p>i personally found kaplan the easiest among the prep books
i would recommend princeton review and sparknotes (they are almost similar in terms of difficulty to the actual standardized test)
also barrons is good, but harder than the actual, but if you ace the barrons, you will have more confidence fo the actual</p>
<p>oh i forgot try taking both SAT and ACT</p>
<p>Um...try to get those scores up. Good SATs cant get u in but bad ones can keep you out. Your scores arent bad, but for Dartmouth standards, they are really low (no offense). If you cant get above 700 in each category or close to that then maybe Dartmouth isnt the right fit...?</p>
<p>no way, i'd never take offense. I know that my scores aren't the greatest and that the math is kinda atrocious. thanks for the book ideas, i'll def check them out. thanks again.</p>
<p>should i take the ACT?</p>
<p>I would try the ACT in addition to retaking the SAT.</p>
<p>What we learned when my son applied last year is that Dartmouth is a very numbers oriented school. When we studied scattergrams of several different schools, we saw a consistent pattern of kids with below the median (2200 now) not being accepted unless they were athletes.</p>
<p>Given this, I would reconsider going in ED with your current scores and think about waiting to see where all the scores shake out. I think to be a low scoring applicant in the middle of the ED pool with all the athletes, legacies and top students could result in an outright rejection as opposed to them deferring and waiting for later scores.</p>
<p>thanks for the info</p>