<p>Here's my concern with my application to Duke's Pratt school, and I would appreciate anyone who can offer their thoughts. I am a strongly math and science oriented student, and do well in these and the rest of my subjects (i.e., grade averages are high A's). </p>
<p>For math in particular, I have maintained high A averages in math throughout my high school career. I have not, however, done stellar on what the SAT calls math. I got a 700 on the math portion of the SAT and a 690 on the Math IC subject test. For whatever reason, I cannot seem to master the math that College Board puts on these tests. I do not feel my scores reflect my math potential as an engineer, as I am one of the top math students in my class.</p>
<p>For anyone with experience, does Pratt admissions weigh heavily on these objective test results, or do they look more at your high school math (and other subjects) performance, teacher rec's, essays (which are very good and have been read by multiple people), overall potential, etc.</p>
<p>Duke is my dream school, where my dad went and loved, and I am just curious how much my mediocre SAT math performance will hurt me. By the way, I applied ED and had an interview already, which went well.</p>
<p>Enlighten me.</p>
<p>duke doesn’t care about interview</p>
<p>but engineering schools do care a lot about scores</p>
<p>how did you get As while getting such low math scores? How much does your school inflate?</p>
<p>Why didn’t you retake math 2 and sats</p>
<p>Truth be told, I don’t know how I did so poorly (relatively speaking to my interests) on the math subject test and SAT portion. I did take the SAT twice, but had no change in the SAT math score portion. My school does not inflate the scores, and I truly do well in math classes. I truly don’t think the SAT math performance reflects any real talent in math–to me, most of the questions seem more like mind tricks. This may be the one factor that keeps me out of good engineering schools, which to me would be a shame, because I don’t understand why I did poorly (again, for an engineering prospective) on these tests.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response, though, and I would appreciate anyone else’s input they have to offer.</p>
<p>Ryan</p>
<p>By the way, my overall SAT score was not too bad: 2190 (700 M, 690 CR, 800 W). Are the questions the SAT uses for math really used as a strong basis in determining a candidate’s math talent and ability? I currently hold a high A average in AP Calculus BC at my high school, and have good all-around aspects to my application (especially the essays), so hopefully my SAT scores won’t kill me. It is what it is, I guess.</p>