<p>Your scores are horrible variance! Even my friend who hasn't taken algebra got an 800 on math IIC- its so easy how could you only score in the 87th percentile?? When i told him, even HE laughed at your scores. Sad, really sad- you SHOULD be worried.</p>
<p>those scores are fine. and SAT 2 scores alone will not get you in, or keep you out of, those schools.</p>
<p>You remind me of my friend...he's really annoying, too. He took the new SAT and got like a 2100 and thought his score sucked. I got a 1700...out of 2200.
So like, I just wanna know...are you serious?</p>
<p>No offense, but people who ***** & whine over their outstanding scores just for attention are a huge pain.</p>
<p>PS. anyone with an 800 who laughs at somebody with a 790 is pathetically insecure & arrogant.</p>
<p>The percentile doesn't matter. The only kids who take the SAT IIs are good students, unlike the regular SAT. Don't worry about it. As long as your scores are acceptable by the schools' standards, you're fine. Believe me, no 1600/2400/800 is going to wow an HYPSM admissions department. You'll need some other way to stand out, so don't worry yourself trying.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I have a really hard time believing that you actually think a 790 is bad. You did very well... colleges aren't going to analyze percentiles; they'll just read your scores. If you really are upset about these scores, you have bigger problems than standardized testing. Sorry if I'm reading you wrong, but I resent people who feel the need to fish for compliments and make others feel inadequate in the process.</p>
<p>your a dumass, "horrific," please, I hope you don't get into anywhere you want</p>
<p>God, CCShamrock...that was uncalled for.</p>
<p>Putting "Extremely Horrific" is uncalled for. Some kids bust their asses off for a 600 and this kid's whining about a 740.</p>
<p>Lol, I got into UC Berkeley, and one of my SAT II scores was 470 (World History). Although I did score 700+ on the 3 I submitted.</p>
<p>Ok...point.
Hey kid...Variance? Chill out...really.</p>
<p>its "dumbass"</p>
<p>People on this thread are going overboard about the 790 on Math IIC. The average score for most of the SAT II's is 600, but the Math IIC has a very high average. However, the difference beween a 790 and 800 is probably only a single question. Nobody would ever think that the difference between 790 and 800 means anything at all. The 740 and 710 are good. The two 600's will verify solid work, but not impress anyone. Taking five SAT II's was good because it shows effort. The thing you have to remember is that the Bio, Chem and Hist SAT II's are only taken by people who really care about those particular subjects. If you get a 600 on one, you are average. However, you are average among the preselected group of people who are extremely good at that particular subject.</p>
<p>The bottom line to all of this is that you shouldn't worry. First, they care about difficulty of curriculum, gpa/rank, and SAT I much more. Second, after you qualify for admission based upon your academic record (and 70-80% of the applicants do), they make the decision about who gets in based upon the "hook" of the applicant. A 1500 SAT with a good hook is much more likely to be accepted than a 1600 with no hook. After a certain point, the standardized test scores do not matter that much. In the essay, you need to stand out from the crowd. You need to be special, unique, interesting, and memorable. In addition to having outstanding EC's, the EC's have to support the essay. Adcoms want to see "passion" and long-term commitment to one or two EC's. Don't worry about the SAT II's. After all, the math and chemistry are quite good and you were only required to have two. Work on the essay and presenting the supporting EC's.</p>
<p>Also, don't get too freaked out about what everyone else at your school is saying they got for their scores. People lie. If people lie about anything, it is about this.</p>
<p>On the contrary, the math 2c is one of the peculiar tests where 790 and 800 is a pretty big difference. If I remember correctly, you can get around ~7 or 8 questions out of 50 wrong and still get an 800 on 2c. So a 790 is actually a pretty big drop down. But after that, the curve doesn't matter as much (ex. a 780 isn't much different from a 770)</p>
<p>I came from a school also where it was very very common for people to have 800 on their 2C, so I know how you feel. BTW it's impossible to achieve 99 percentile on 2c, an 800 is in the low nineties because a lot of people who take 2c get 800s. This isn't due to the fact that the test is easy, but it's just that the people who take 2c are usually advanced, more well-prepared students so the top nearly 10% of the ppl who take the test get 800s.</p>
<p>The curve on the Math IIC is much more liberal than the Math IC test. As said, you can miss six or seven questions and still get an 800. (On the IC, you need to answer them all in order to get an 800. Missing one will give you a 780.)</p>
<p>Still, the difference between an 800 and a 790 on the IIC test can be only one question. If you miss seven questions, you get an 800. If you miss eight questions, then you get a 790.</p>
<p>The point I really want to stress here is that a college admissions office will not see much difference between an 800 and 790. Probably even an 800 all the way down to 750 will be counted the same. Your SAT scores will not get you accepted to the very top universities, even if you are completely perfect. Around 700 is always said to be the competitive number, and that's very true. SATs are just there to make sure you can at least do a certain level of work.</p>
<p>Agreed. The difficulty of curriculum, gpa/rank and standardized test scores get you thrown onto a "possible" pile. From that point on, the combination of academic record, EC's, essays and recommendations determines your fate. The OP should not worry about his SAT II scores, but work on an essay to make him/her stand out from the crowd as being unique/special/memorable. Besides having good EC's by themselves, the EC's need to support the point being made in the essay. </p>
<p>However, if you are in a high school where 20 other people are applying to the college, the college can not take that many people from a single high school and comparisons will be made between the applicants from that single high school. It defies common sense, though, that anyone is going to care about the difference between a 800 and 790.</p>
<p>your a little biotch, you know that? I'd kill to get such high scores. quite complaining, they're fine. no one looks at percentile, the scores are high as hell.</p>
<p>*You're</p>
<p>I think that sums up the effectiveness of that post. Don't be so cruel. It didn't seem like she was bragging, as I know that many kids are very happy about high scores until they can't figure out the low percentages. </p>
<p>Saying the scores are horrible, isn't really cool. But I understand being worried at first about the percentiles. I was, too.</p>