<p>How much do SAT II's matter at Dartmouth, compared to the rest of the applications stuff. For example, if my scores sucked but I did fine on the rest of it do I have a good chance of getting in?</p>
<p>No..............</p>
<p>well, maybe................but SATII's absolutely matter unless you've solved cold fusion, then don't worry about it. lol</p>
<p>SATII's validate your grades. They matter.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting three times, as if one isn't enough.</p>
<p>It's called an edit button.</p>
<p>kids, are you smoking???</p>
<p>SAT 2's are wayyy more important than the 1's... the SAT 2's is that the admissions ppl use to distinguish and validate ranks from all the different types of high school across the planet... if you had 98% in English throughout your high school year and is the top student in your class, but you only got 600 on your writing, then it shows your school is just easy. but if you had only 80 but had a 800 for sat 2's, then it shows your school is just hard... so SAT 2's are way more important than SAT 1's</p>
<p>Well, I got like a 640 in chem, a 670 in math II, and a 720 in writing. I hadn't taken chemistry in a year, and I'm not in a very advanced math....</p>
<p>Dartmouth (like most Ivies) uses something called the AI, which puts applicants on a 1-9 scale (9 being best). SAT IIs are exactly one-third of the forumla (along with the SAT I and class rank). Naturally, forumlae are not the only way admissions decisions are determined, but it is important.</p>
<p>sat 2's > sat 1</p>
<p>will it help me if my Math IIC score is 30 points higher than my SAT I Math score?</p>
<p>mine is the opposite way :(</p>
<p>R2D2, yours scores put you right in the middle of the pack. You're gonna need some pretty fantastic EC's/essays/recs to compensate.</p>
<p>Hmm....do you think my 780 Writing and 770 Literature can compensate for relatively low English grades? Not at Dartmouth, obviously, but at other schools?</p>
<p>it shows that you can perform up to the national standard, and that maybe you just had a really difficult English class.</p>
<p>or it'll reflect poorly, b/c they might be like "Well obviously she can do well, maybe she's just not working hard."</p>
<p>sorry lol. i think it can go either way</p>
<p>if your SAT IIs are no good, and your GPA is 3.8+, then "houston, we have a problem"</p>
<p>bluirinka,
"will it help me if my Math IIC score is 30 points higher than my SAT I Math score?"</p>
<p>+-30 points doesn't mean much unless it makes or breaks the 700 mark... every test has a variance of +- 30 points since they cannot assure that every test has the same difficulty...</p>
<p>well i mean, my SAT I Math is 710, my Math IIC is 740. (yes i realize that puts me in like the 74th percentile so it's nothing to brag about, lol)</p>
<p>My Math SAT I and SAT II are the same... consistency, consistency, consistency I awlays say. lol I don't actually say that, but I guess it's kind of good that they're the same. :p</p>