For smart students with low SATs

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>^^calm down please.</p>

<p>Yeah sure, if you look you’ll find anecdotal cases of people who did poorly in high school and turned out to be geniuses and made bank. But these are exceptions. We can’t go around assuming everyone who does poorly on the SAT/has a bad gpa is a secret genius. The SAT isn’t meant to test one’s knowledge, but rather to gauge one’s ability to learn and work hard towards a goal.</p>

<p>and also, “life smacks them up”?</p>

<p>@madogmgd</p>

<p>which would you HONESTLY pick, incredibly hot woman with crap personality, or incredibly ugly woman with great personality (isn’t this also subjective?)</p>

<p>I mean honestly, I just don’t know.</p>

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<p>^^
I think you missed the point.</p>

<p>^^^
You mad, bro?</p>

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<p>^ Oh crap, forgot it’s the internet.</p>

<p>You guys are right then. 3.7 weighted GPA/sub-1600 SAT does suck big time.</p>

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<p>Maybe that’s what the sticker says.</p>

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<p>Oh why thank you. it’s not very often I win arguments on the internet</p>

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<p>I’ve been waiting to find a thread like this for so long, because I fall in this category as well. </p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 (weighted)
SAT: 1410 (most likely won’t retake, b/c I’m focusing on ACT)
ACT: 20 (currently prepping for a 28)</p>

<p>I’m far from dumb, I just need better exam preparation.</p>

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<p>@ Whschaps</p>

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<p>You just can’t get past your caveman mentality ;P</p>

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<p>Grades and test scores are everything. How smart you are, your value as a person, and the justification on your existence is calculated by God using a mixture of your GPA and most recent test scores. So, the smart kid who doesn’t really get school (i.e not organized, gets bored easily, instead of doing homework spends time reading, etc) is worse in the eyes of God because he doesn’t treat school like its some kind of cult. Thank you CC for opening my eyes.</p>

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<p>I am freshman
PSAT: 182
SAT: 1960
Weighted GPA: 5.38
Unweighted GPA: 4.0</p>

<p>I am pretty dumb…but then again I have a different standard…So it depends on your standards and expectations</p>

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<p>^^ why the hell are you bringing God into this?</p>

<p>Isn’t sloth and apathy two of the seven deadly sins, anyway?</p>

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<p>My existence belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti monster, thank you very much.</p>

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<p>Everyone is worth their sauce in the eyes of Meathova and his son Cheesus!</p>

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<p>Oh btw i meant unweighted not weighted. And thanks for the “advise”. I’m going to take the SAT again and study for it more. But really? I’m not looking for top schools like most people on CC, i’m saving that for graduate school. So right now most of the colleges i like are SAT optional with a few that require the SAT, but even then there average isn’t that far off. My reach is Trinity. I have the grades, but obviously my SAT is lacking. I’m going tp write an amazing essay though and i have tons if ECs and community service hours. Any advice that is not going to make me feel stupid or is immature is unwelcome. Grow up. You don’t have to call other people stupid. And thanks to the people who actually want to help me.</p>

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<p>*is going lol exclude the not(:</p>

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<p>You are ever so welcome Kaetiii. And please do ignore the Arrogant Pseudo-intelligent people here.</p>

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<p>Practically everyone above the 50th percentile in terms of “intelligence” can get a top GPA through simple dedication. I don’t know about you guys, but I have many classes in which tests count for maybe 20-40% of the grade. If you average let’s say a 75% C on those but 100s on all the tedious homework assignments, essays that you spend hours on, and you are a fantastic participator in class who is loved by the teacher, that averages out to just about a low A depending on how much of your grade tests are. Sure, the combination of “unintelligent” student and hard worker (with this mindset you would probably eventually build up said “intelligence”) is probably pretty rare, but it’s certainly feasible. </p>

<p>In fact, this case could also apply to people who simply fold under the pressure of any and all tests, or overthink answers, or spend way too much time making sure they have the right answers, or any other of a multitude of possible reasons why someone might do poorly on tests and not long-term assignments; it’d still be possible for them to achieve a solid GPA and success in life in ventures that don’t require quick, timed thinking skills (same goes for the former case).</p>

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<p>I overthink answers and spend wayy to much time making sure I have the right answers.</p>

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<p>That is exactly what i do. That’s why i think I have such a low score. In the CR part i have to read the entire passage and questions and answers and that means well, i don’t finish on time. This is also true for the math section. For the writing it’s more easy for me because I don’t have to do so many things. </p>

<p>So should i take them again? The only college I would really need them for would be trinity which is a 1700+ school. I don’t even know if I should apply there but i love it.</p>

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<p>For the writing it’s <em>easier</em> for me because I don’t have to do so many things. </p>

<p>Oh, the ironing…</p>

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<p>Lol that is right? I put that because for some reason it looked like i spelt easier wrong. I’m using a crappy itouch.</p>

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<p>People doesn’t see our worth as a sauce though. And no one recognizes Cheesus OR Meathova, except maybe you.</p>

<p>Anyway, it’s good to know worth is decided upon and relative, even if knowing this won’t change what is valued. But it’s maybe slightly empowering, to know that what is valued can change, and that you can maybe help change it (if you want to do that).</p>