<p>I agree with Shrinkrap... If you feel you have to bring up your scores to be accepted into a school when you know you're not a good test taker the school is not worth it. Scores are just numbers that make each applicant an undergraduate-robot. Standardized testing doesn't demonstrate who you are as a person, but rather what someone has taught you to write on paper. Apply to a school that will accept you for who you are and you'll most likely be satisfied. Good luck!</p>
<p>Aerex, </p>
<p>I know very little about engineering schools but it seems to me you might want to consider applying to a Historically Black College. They are 1- cheaper than many private schools, 2- often have excellent alumni connections, 3- still graduate a large number of our country's African-American engineers so they must be doing something right. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.eng.morgan.edu/%7Eamie/htms/sb_intr1.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.eng.morgan.edu/~amie/htms/sb_intr1.html</a>
<a href="http://hbcuconnect.com/%5B/url%5D">http://hbcuconnect.com/</a></p>
<p>By the way, there are often scholarships for students attending HBCU.
Poke around here and at the United Negro College Fund page:
<a href="http://www.nhbcusf.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.nhbcusf.org/</a></p>
<p>You may be able to learn how to surpass your limitations but the most selective colleges are not interested in being the place where you learn to do this. They only consider applicants with limitations if those applicants have an uncommon skill, like an athlete. Fortunately for you there are many, many schools that are happy to help you develop the skills you need to surpass your limitations. You just need to get past your emotional attachment to the brand name of a school and focus on finding a school that wants to help you become the best version of you that you can be.</p>
<p>Wow I never thought of it that way, I was always thought it was the other way around where selective colleges want people who want to do the impossible.</p>
<p>There is also the option of applying to colleges that do not require the SATS. See <a href="http://www.fairtest.org%5B/url%5D">www.fairtest.org</a></p>
<p>The issue is not whether you think the SAT requirement is FAIR. It's THERE, so even if it is UNFAIR that is hindering you, that does not make a DIFFERENCE. Sorry, but each of your posts is more about why you think your scores shouldn't matter; you sound rather in denial about them.</p>
<p>Other than that, yeah, try to find colleges that don't care about SATs, and apply to a few that do just as reaches.</p>
<p>Well, Aerex is a real smart guy. I don't think his SAT or ACT scores reflect his ability at all.</p>
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The issue is not whether you think the SAT requirement is FAIR. It's THERE, so even if it is UNFAIR that is hindering you, that does not make a DIFFERENCE. Sorry, but each of your posts is more about why you think your scores shouldn't matter; you sound rather in denial about them.</p>
<p>Other than that, yeah, try to find colleges that don't care about SATs, and apply to a few that do just as reaches.
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<p>Yeah I understand that is there, but if I am not the only one who believes that this test and many other standardized test in the world is hindering many brilliant people to success than it should not be there. I don't think is really possible to measure someones intelligence if everyone thinks differently. These are some issues that I want to study on in college and resolve, and I believe the colleges that I have selected will help get there. </p>
<p>Anyway, what test prep books can be useful in getting an "acceptable" score on the SAT/ACT</p>
<p>I have Kaplan, the Blue book, and princeton</p>
<p>This is a chances thread. Unless you think you can amend the college admissions system in the next few months, it doesn't matter whether you think standardized testing is fair or not.</p>
<p>The Blue Book will be your best bet. For other advice go to the SAT prep forum and look at Xiggi's post- it will be tagged as "IMPORTANT" and good luck.</p>
<p>Perhaps the SAT has its disadvantages, but how else would you propose to compare a student from Maine to another one from California? The only way to reconcile the many wildly different levels of excellence and systems of education throughout the nation is through a ubiquitous standardized test like the SAT.</p>
<p>You might deem it evil, but can you call it an unnecessary evil?</p>
<p>I got my ACT scores back, this thread might be dead but I appreciate some replies</p>
<p>Composite: 24
Math - 27
English - 21
Reading - 26
Science -20</p>
<p>Initially I had a 20 so I don't think I improve this much, I hear in CC that this would not be a good score anyway but feedback would appreciated.</p>