<p>I'm international and I have just graduated at high school. I'm a good student with a 4.0 GPA. I'm also a really good tennis player (Top 10 in my country). </p>
<p>I took the SAT this January and got a really bed score (1440). I retook it in June and got 1570. I want to get a score with which I'm eligible for a full-ride.</p>
<p>My question is the following:
Lets say I took the SAT 4-5 times and I'm 21-22 years old, can I still get a full-ride or full-tuition scholarship?</p>
<p>You are going to find that financial aid for international students is not only very limited but also very competitive. Just a good GPA and good SAT scores will not be enough. I don't know what country you are from, so I can't tell you is the tennis playing will help all that much.</p>
<p>If you just graduated from high school -- are you thinking of spending the next 1-2 years taking the SAT? Schools will see that as a waste of time (and so will just about everybody else). </p>
<p>Schools are going to want to know what you did between graduating high school and applying for college -- and they are looking for kids who did constructive things, not kids that just kept studying for a test.</p>
<p>Are you already admited to college and wondering if taking the SAT while in college and getting a higher score will make you eligible for addtional aid? If so, I think the answer is no. Also agree with previous poster. If you are not enrolled/admitted, what you are doing with your time between now and applying will be much more important than raising your score to 1600 (out of 1600 I'm assuming) rather than 1570.</p>
<p>from reading your previous posts, it looks like your best bet is to get recruited to play tennis at some of the schools that were interested in your earlier. You need to find out exactly what SAT score you need and try to get it -- seriously, you have taken it twice and raised it to 1570 so you could raise it some more with some additional studying -- but the odds are that you are not going to get 700 CR.</p>
<p>If he took it this June, it's obviously out of 2400, unless for some reason he decided to personally convert the score back to /1600 just for fun.</p>
<p>He has previously posted his scores -- and it is out of 2400. Yes, the fact that English is not his major language does effect the SAT -- and that is true for all International students (and US applicants whose spoken language at home is not English). You cannot take the SAT in another language -- and schools do expect you to do well, even if English is not your first language. There are many, many international students who do well on the SAT and schools use it to determine whether a student is likely to benefit from attending their school. If you are still working at a lower level regarding English vocabulary and comprehension, you are going to have a difficult time doing well at the college level.</p>
<p>from his previous posts, it looks like he is from the netherlands. I don't know anything about tennis, but he posted that coaches from US colleges (he mentioned St. John's University in NY) were interested -- but he needed a higher SAT score.</p>
<p>gery -- if you truly have an offer of admission and aid at a US college but you are lacking the appropriate SAT score, you should looking into getting a private tutor for the SAT. It will be costly -- but the savings of a full scholarship will make up for it. A private tutor can focus in on your weak areas.</p>
<p>I am surprised that you have a 4.0 GPA in the Netherlands and you scored so poorly on the SAT math portion. That isn't a section that is really dependent on language skills. How do you know that your GPA is equivalent to a 4.0? It isn't the scale used in other countries.</p>
<p>I'm not 100% sure, but I think recruited athletes have to take the SAT per NCAA qualifying rules, so the ACT may not work for that. I think international students also have to take the toefel (?). The OP's best bet for admission and scholarships is probably going to be with tennis. He should contact the coaches at every school he is interested in and see where that leads him. Athletes have to meet very minimal SAT requirements if their grades are decent (there is a sliding scale for qualification that dictates what score you need with your specific gpa - a good gpa lets you score very low on the SAT. check ncaa.org for details). I sincerely doubt that a higher SAT score and more years out of high school is going to be the ticket to a free ride to a US university. Good luck.</p>
<p>You also need to get the information on age and NCAA qualification -- I am postive that there are restrictions on age and number of years out of high school when it comes to recruiting.</p>
<p>Umm..I think you are wrong there hsmom. There is a player for Texas A&M(I believe) who is 43 or something. And Chris Weinke won a heisman as a 28 year old.</p>
<p>As long as you are entering college for the first time, you are in the clear I believe(as long as you aren't pro in that sport).</p>
<p>I may be wrong -- I am not expert in sports or recruiting. I just know that the NCAA has really strict rules -- whatever they are. If there is no age limit, that is a really good thing for the OP -- it makes his strategy of studying for the SAT and retaking it a few times a real possibility.</p>
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Umm..I think you are wrong there hsmom. There is a player for Texas A&M(I believe) who is 43 or something. And Chris Weinke won a heisman as a 28 year old.</p>
<p>As long as you are entering college for the first time, you are in the clear I believe(as long as you aren't pro in that sport).
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<p>there are age limits on DI NCAA sports ... </p>
<p>21 Year Age Rule for Division I
In Division I only, if a student-athlete has participated as an individual or as a team representative in organized sports competition, that kind of participation during each 12-month period after his/her 21st birthday and prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment will count as one year of varsity competition in that sport. Any participation in organized competition during time spent in the U.S. armed services will be excepted. </p>
<p>You may wish to consult with the student-athlete's current college's athletics director to determine exactly how many seasons of varsity competition he/she may have used. Please contact the NCAA membership services staff at 317/917-6222 should you have further questions.</p>