<p>there is no formula to get the overhyped 2400. no one in my class scored a 2400 and some are going to the most elite schools. there is no point in trying to get a 2400 as it isn't as significant as you may think. just prepare for the SAT and you will most likely do well. good luck.</p>
<p>most people are smart enuff, just don't have the speed. try to have both, that way u have time to check over too</p>
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As someone who has just finished up the horrid college app process, I'd like to tell you something... it doesn't matter if you get a 2200 or a 2400
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<p>Definitely... go look at the MIT acceptance thread and you'll see plenty of people with 2350-2400 who got rejected and a number of people in the low 2000s who got accepted...</p>
<p>Thanks for the reminder about the financial aid; I completely forgot about it. You might just have saved me $200k, lol :)</p>
<p>Like I said, though, if I can get a 2400 with 15 extra minutes of work each day, I'm putting in that extra 15 mins. In the end, we never really know what the admissions officers are going to base their decisions on.</p>
<p>For the essay, good tips are that you use books you've read recently as concrete examples, and maybe relate current events to create a powerful effect. For the January 2009 SAT I cited how President Obama was just inaugurated as the first African American president of the United States and I got a 12 just fine :-)</p>
<p>Okay, thanks... any good books or news sites you'd recommend that can give kind of "generic" examples?</p>
<p>for examples just keep a book or history date in mind. you can really relate anything to anything...well mostly.</p>
<p>hm.</p>
<p>im gonna have to say that you're delusional. </p>
<p>bumping up your score 220 points? trying to get a perfect score? dude, the only way to do that is through high intelligence, dilligent studying, and proper sacrifices to the test gods.</p>
<p>My kids read really fast, so they read the passages before answering questions. At least for my older son that resulted in an 800 score. (He did get a few wrong.) The math you HAVE to get every single one right. My older son whose strength is math never got an 800, because he always made careless mistakes. Read the questions carefully and make sure you do every step. The always got the really easy fourth grade level things wrong. For the essay, I think some of the threads here are quite helpful. Practice writing essays under the time limit. Have a list of things that you can pull on for likely themes of the essay. (Ghandi, MLK, Gilded Age, Huckleberry Finn, Great Gatsby, personal examples (that as a prevous poster said can be complete fiction.) Review the grammar. The one that tripped my sons up regularly was parallel construction.</p>
<p>Post #17 is right. Top scores aren't everything. Once you get past a certain threshold (somewhere around 2200) - your ECs, recommendations and essays are much more important than your numbers.</p>
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Post #17 is right. Top scores aren't everything. Once you get past a certain threshold (somewhere around 2200) - your ECs, recommendations and essays are much more important than your numbers.
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<p>Well that's not true in the least bit. I don't suppose you have any evidence to back up this claim? No? Didn't think so. This is a widespread fallacy among CC'ers, and if you'll look at the admissions data published by various top universities you'll see that the correlation between admit rates and SAT scores actually increases as scores near the tail of the curve. </p>
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Okay, thanks... any good books or news sites you'd recommend that can give kind of "generic" examples?
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<p>If you're really shooting for a 2400 you should use the prep book Rocket Review. I highly recommend it. It focuses a lot more on test-taking strategies and how to apply the concepts you already know than the concepts themselves, which you should already been familiar with. It's especially helpful for CR passages, and outlines how to get an easy 12 on the essay. </p>
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im gonna have to say that you're delusional.</p>
<p>bumping up your score 220 points? trying to get a perfect score? dude, the only way to do that is through high intelligence, dilligent studying, and proper sacrifices to the test gods.
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<p>Well, maybe the OP IS delusion. You got somethin against delusional pplz? Hmm? Psh.</p>
<p>220 points (THE 220 points) is a substantial goal, but it's definitely doable--and I am speaking from personal experience. I totally agree with the sacrifices to the test gods thing, though. El Ronhabird, the chief god, especially likes goats, so consider sacrificing a few of those.</p>
<p>I'm going to chime in with the 'don't aim for a 2400, just aim for a high score'. Statistically speaking, there is no difference between a 2400 and a 2350 on the SAT.</p>
<p>Yes, we do know what admissions officers are going to base their decisions on. Treating the process like it's some huge mystery is only going to foster more anxiety. They are basing their decisions upon your test scores, your GPA, your extra-curriculars, your essay(s), and possibly any supplemental information (art supplement, music audition) and possibly a very small bit on uncontrollable factors (race, gender, legacy status).</p>
<p>Also, statistically speaking, Godfatherbob is wrong and mathmom is right. The statistical differences between scores past 2200 are very small and decrease as scores get higher -- and top universities know that. Correlation does not equal causation. Yes, kids with higher SAT scores are more likely to get into top schools, but seeing as schools only publish their score averages and there are so many confounding variables that surround this correlation (are they also likely to have higher GPAs, more ECs, etc. -- be a better overall application?) there's no way to verify whether scoring a 2400 will do you better than a 2300.</p>
<p>The best thing to do is to shoot not for some specific score goal, but to achieve the best score you can make.</p>
<p>1: Delusional? I don't see how. I think that, for those of us who have a high intelligence and study diligently, as you put it, it is actually possible to get 2400 the first time round.
2: I am not a "dude".
3: Thanks to the rest of you for the rather more helpful advice.</p>
<p>No, the SAT differences do matter. In fact, they matter a great deal. The SAT is (1/3) of your Academic Index, which many Ivy League schools use.</p>
<p>That scores past 2200 don’t matter is a common fallacy here on CC. In fact, students in the 2300-2400 range are TWICE as likely to be admitted as students in the 2200-2300 range. So, how’d you like to double your chances?</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University | Admission Statistics](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/)</p>
<p>^ Wow, I’m surprised to see there was such a significant difference in admission between 4.0 and 3.9+ GPAs. In fact, the gap is nearly as big as the gap between 3.6 and 3.9. Now I’m really mad at that teacher who gave me an A- :p</p>
<p>i haven’t read the entire thread but what i’m wondering is who here is actually “qualified” (as in got a 2400) to give advice?? lmao ;)</p>