<p>Anyone else go to one like that? My school is very competitive (at least in the top 20%), but we get asymbal test scores. The average SAT score is ~400 each section exactly. The average ACT score is 21. Yet you have kids with like 4.5 GPAs with a ton of college classes and all this other crap. That's how the school sends boatloads of kids to UC Berkeley. </p>
<p>Anyone else have a situation like this? What does that mean when colleges look at our schools?</p>
<p>My school is a little different… I mean, my school is pretty split…we have about a third of the students who have decent grades, about 1/5 honor roll and then about 1/5 with B’s and C’s.</p>
<p>The other 3/5 are failure students who barely scrape by with D’s, low C’s, and the occasional B. </p>
<p>No idea what the average SAT score is, but most of the people I know (being most of the honor roll students) have SAT’s in the 1700’s. I have an 1850 as of today. </p>
<p>So, we’re above average for the most part, but not anything special. </p>
<p>I’m inclined to chalk this up to our instruction. Being very uncompetitive for the most part, we’re not really groomed to do well. There are no SAT prep classes, no study groups, no constant score comparison, no kids cramming in the library. </p>
<p>My school is pretty standard. We have very few AP classes, no honors, no IB, and a couple of Dual Enrollments. My teachers teach the standardized state tests (save for the AP teachers, who teach the AP tests).</p>
<p>There is a severe lack of college prep and hype in my school…-sigh- I sometimes wish I had more enthusiastic college-bound kids in my school…it’s all “oh, I’m applying here and here -shrug-” or “I got in here.” No…“WOOH, I applied to 10 places and got into them all!!!” or “I’m hoping for a 25k scholarship, but since I’m OOS it’s kind of hard and…”</p>
<p>Just…“I’m going to college” End of story…</p>
<p>My school is boring… ;__;</p>
<p>EDIT: I didn’t answer your other question. -sweat- Um, well…it’ll probably say there’s no SAT/ACT emphasis there. The SAT/ACT concepts are slightly different from the norm and it takes a certain technique (test-taking skills, logic skills, analytical skills) specific to the tests themselves. </p>
<p>Nothing I do daily in school evokes any skill I use on the SAT…at least from my point of view. So, maybe adcoms come to a similar conclusion? </p>
<p>Dunno; Can’t really say for sure since I really don’t know much about the inner workings of the adcoms.</p>
<p>Doesn’t that just make your school look heavily grade inflated?</p>
<p>Yeah… Bunch of kids competing for overinflated grades. 4.5 shouldn’t really be common… at all…</p>
<p>Do you know what the average AP exam scores are? If everyone’s getting 5s, then we can show that your school isn’t suffering from grade inflation.</p>
<p>The average is…1s and 2s I believe. A few 3s here and there. 4s are tough. 5s are genius level.</p>
<p>Sounds like a ton of grade inflation</p>
<p>i’m the only one to break 2k on the SATs in my grade lol (2120) and am the only one to have above a 3 on an AP exam.</p>
<p>it’s not too competitive though, so whatevs.</p>
<p>I’m from a public, non-magnet high school in a small town in Iowa. Normally, we’d probably be looked down as uncompetitive because of our location, but test scores help show our competitiveness to colleges. The average ACT score in my school is 25, and we’ve had perfect scores on the ACT for the past two years.</p>
<p>On AP exams, 90% of all students who took the AP class get at least a 3 or above. The scores are distributed such that most students who get As get 5s, those who get Bs get 4s, and so on. The proportion of students who have each exam grade 3 or above exceeds the national proportion. We have at least three or four national AP scholars a year.</p>
<p>These school stats aren’t particularly good compared to magnet schools or the top schools in the country, but they’re at least above average, which helps a little in the college admissions process. Colleges should see that the average student at my school is at least a little above average nationally.</p>
<p>OP- You’re school has a major case of grade inflation. </p>
<p>Those stats of the students aren’t impressive unless they have the test scores to back them up.</p>
<p>Oh…I didn’t realize AP scores were low too…um…</p>
<p>Do you find your classes…rather easy perhaps? College prep classes like APs are supposed to be challenging. They shouldn’t be something an average student can manage straight A’s in all year easily. </p>
<p>There’s a major problem if the students are getting straight A’s in the class and getting 1’s and 2’s on the exam.</p>
<p>Yeah, huge inflation. So far this year, I know 3 seniors that got into Stanford, 1 into William and Mary, few Ivy’s, like 10 people into Berkeley AND ucla, and a bunch of people into the other uc’s.</p>
<p>Today, 6 of my friends got over 2000 on the recent SAT.
My friend got a 2230 on the sat and 35 on the act.</p>
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~ exactly? Sorry, I couldn’t resist:p</p>
<p>Haha I just noticed.
Wow, I figured.</p>
<p>My school’s kind of half and half. Half the kids don’t try and just go to lower tier schools. The other half receive 2000+ SATs and good GPAs, but only a few of them stack their schedules with APs. In the end, most kids end up going to UMD, but most of them do end up getting accepted to a top tier school.</p>
<p>In my school, most kids get around 1700 for their SATs. There are four levels of classes, and these are the average SAT scores:
CP (basically remedial): 1300 SAT
CP1 (Average): 1500 SAT
Honors: 1700 SAT
Honors 1: 2000+ SAT</p>
<p>The top 10% of the class usually gets around a 2100. I got a 2320, which was the highest in my school in a while. I was kind of a freak accident lol.</p>