I hate the sat

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>OKAY IM GOING TO RANT HERE!
I absolutely hate and dread this freaking test!
Like honestly!
Why are we basing our intelligence on one test that is designed to TRICK YOU!
Its not basing it off intelligence that we already have, but its a big trick!</p>

<p>I just got my test scores back....................................... Disastrous.</p>

<p>Not The CC disastrous. But the real world Disaster. I got a 1780..FML!</p>

<p>I tried and took a class (I'm still in the class) and all kinds of crap.
I'm not aiming extremely high like the Ivies or anything, all I want, is to go to USC, UCLA, or Pomona, or UCSB,UofMIami, something nice that I know I will like.......................</p>

<p>I have this fear that I just won't get in! I really need to get rid of this fear. This is my first time taking the test, and honestly I didn't think I did THAT bad. </p>

<p>I'm honestly(until June 2nd) about to study my little ding ding off.-_-
Failure is not an option.</p>

<p>But honestly how much do statistics matter?
Like My SAT score....no bueno I know...
Even my GPA...like...an 88 average..is no bueno too...</p>

<p>BECAUSE THE SCHOOL I GO TO IS SO DIFFICULT!
Giving out A's(even though you deserve it) is like seeing a blue moon...IT NEVER HAPPENS.</p>

<p>I don't know if I just damned myself by goin to boarding school. Sometimes I regret it. Sometimes I don't.
Like at public school...I was just a bum. Got good grades, but I wasn't apart of anything. No clubs, no sports. No nothing. I was just crusin.</p>

<p>Here,
I'm president of Art Club
I'm vice prez of multi cultural club
I'm captain of my JV volleyball team
Manager of the dance team and softball team
I have 1 AP this year tho...and 2 HRs courses.-_-
I'm confused about Next year..
And I'm just stressed about college.
Its starting right now.</p>

<p>WHY DOES COLLEGE HAVE TO BE SO STRESSFUL.....</p>

<p>Hopefully I get into Questbridge.......</p>

<p>Thanks for reading yall</p>

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<p>The SAT provides another measuring stick for adcoms. It helps differentiate between the pretenders and the contenders - namely, Bill with a 6.0 GPA and a 1200 SAT score and Jill with a 4.5 GPA and a 2300 SAT score.</p>

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<p>If your school is really that difficult, and all its students really aren’t just that stupid, then your school should have a reputation for being difficult. Adcoms will generally keep in mind the relative difficulty of your school when considering your application.</p>

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<p>The SAT is essentially a BS-Hoop you have to jump through to play the admissions game. It’s not really worth putting time into it. You’re better off spending time doing something productive, like mathematics. Not only is mathematics applicable to almost every field of study, but appreciating its “cold and austere beauty” is one of the privileges of living in Western society.</p>

<p>Coming from someone who scored 99th percentile on the SAT, for the sake of Ethos.</p>

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<p>You should try the Princeton Review books. They helped me navigate the test’s tricks so well when I took it as a 7th grader (I got a 1740), especially considering that I didn’t even study until two weeks before the test. Considering you have three months, you’ll do great if you pick that book up.</p>

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<p>WAT. </p>

<p>appreciating its cold and austere beauty is more what the smart people do when they have no other options, are atypical neurologically, or have narrow world views (for whatever reasons). for example, Russia produced an insane amount of stunning number theorists and chess players during the cold war when the only other option you had if you were a highly intelligent person was to help the countries’ space or nuclear efforts (and of course many smart people found such work distasteful). There was little freedom and support for private or public scientific enterprises outside of those programs during that time.</p>

<p>but in a privileged western society the smart people have many more freedoms and don’t have to satisfy themselves with such monastic pursuits. of course, that’s precisely why we’ve seen the rapid development of all sorts of fields of science in the west!</p>

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<p>that will certainly comfort the OP i think!</p>

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<p>Sorry… I was trying to be helpful. I was using it as an example of how helpful the book is.</p>

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<p>Ah, the Princeton review books, don’t even get me started with THAT. It’s statistically proven that lower income kids often score lower on the SAT compared to children of similar of intelligence because of the availability of highly expensive review materials and classes. It slants the tests towards the privileged.</p>

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<p>but, colleges slant the admissions towards the underprivileged. lower income kids are often first generation college students, and that is noted.</p>

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<p>The reason lower income kids don’t do as well on the SAT is not really because they can’t afford expensive prep classes. It’s very possible to get a good score just by using the CB Blue Book and Direct Hits vocab. IMO the real reason why lower income kids don’t do as well on the SAT is that their school systems aren’t nearly as strong as those of higher income kids. As a result, the low income kids don’t know the material on the SAT as well as high income kids.</p>

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<p>I think low income kids don’t do as well as high income kids on the SAT because of personal drive and motivation. But with one caveat: it’s not their fault. They were raised in an environment that never emphasized school, so how could you expect them to care about it as much as you guys do? I assume most of your parents have higher education and are all about school, but lower income parents aren’t.</p>

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<p>…but the books are only around 20 bucks.</p>

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<p>I’m a sophomore right now, and I took the PSAT a few months ago. I never picked up a review book or did any studying before hand-- and I got a 175 (67 math, 57 writing, 51 CR, ugh). At first I thought it was a pretty good score until I took a look at some of these scores.</p>

<p>We’re pretty much in the same place, and I hope I’ll be able to bring that up to a 2100+ by the time I take the SAT for real.</p>

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<p>I never studied for the SAT and took it my first time after I was finished my Junior year…</p>

<p>Wound up with a 2020. After becoming familiar with it (still no studying) I finished with a 2180. I wonder if I would have had a 2300+ with some review…</p>

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<p>I come from a lower middle class (upper lower class might be more accurate since my mother’s wages were cut a couple years ago) family. My mother attended community college, only 1 of her 4 siblings went to a 4-year college, and she was the first of my immediate family to do so (my grandfather could have attended through the GI bill but was able to work using his navy training)</p>

<p>I’m only attending a 4-year college myself through Pell Grants, scholarships, and work study. Our EFC is rather low especially with my grandmother as my mother’s dependent, which is our current situation. I’ve always wondered if I’m just about the poorest person on this site.</p>

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<p>Nah, you’re definitely not the only “poor” one (not poor by conventional means but just compared to the demographics of his site). Grew up (and still living as) as a military brat. You have to move every 3 years which sucks severely. Heh, I went to 4 different middle schools. The high schools are adequate. The high schools are mediocre. Better than a lot of poor, rural southern schools or inner-city schools, but worse than most public schools. The 30% of students here who don’t actually plan on joinig the military usually go to a community college, only a small percentage of the smarter ones attend an in-state school. Out-of-state schools are pretty rare, and attending any top 50 school is almost unheard of.</p>

<p>Life is ok, we never really stuggle to get by. We are better than a lot of people are in this country. But boy, am I incredibly jealous of all the priviledges that a lot of kids here get to enjoy. Even simple things like clubs (our school has none) and honors classes (my school also has none) are things that i have to miss out on.</p>

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<p>What the hell was the point of this…Your bragging.-_-.STOP IT! No one wants to see you brag. Just act normal goshh!</p>

<p>And as a lower income student who goes to a high income boarding school. Let me tell ya, the school you go to has some impact on your SAT but not a lot.</p>

<p>I will admit, once I came from my public to private, my PSAT went up 30 points.Maybe that’s just common knowledge that I learned, or maybe its the environment. I really don’t know. Compared to this year’s PSAT, my score went up 13 points. </p>

<p>Trust me when I tell you INCOME HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT. For example, I’m not able to hire a tutor to come when I need him to, that is just too much money. That luxury is afforded to those who have the income. Unless you know specifically what your doing and need to improve on, you have no idea how to approach the SAT and gain no more than 100 points on your own. It’s difficult without any money.</p>

<p>Other than income, TIME is a big factor for me. I need time to finish my 3-4 hrs of homework everynight (I know most of you don’t really know anything about that cause you go to public school…and take the most difficult classes there but I bet you haven’t stayed up until 5am finishing work that was assigned the day before and due the day after)</p>

<p>I like the challenges of my boarding school, but the SAT is worthless point blank. It does no measure anything except for the fact you were able to get a 2090 in one sitting because you studied for that one test…because you didn’t have any real work.</p>

<p>Sorry if I offended anyone, but this is the truth.Come to my school, your little As will plummet to Cs-_-</p>

<p>I just think we should be like oother countries and give a test that doesn’t trick, but tests you on what you know, not “what you think you know but you really don’t but then again you do you just failed to realize the trick”</p>

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<p>ilovemyego, hsl is probably not the best place for someone in your situation to find support (as maybe you’ve figured out…). but I would think your family and friends would be able to help :)!. (after all, you’re involved in lots and lots of clubs; surely you could find some sympathetic ears there i would think).</p>

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<p>enfield so right…however all of cc is not great for people who want help or support -_-</p>

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<p>omg I hate the SAT too and not long ago I was in the 1700s dude! Now how much time do you have left? If you’ve got at least 2 months, I suggest you get Dr. Chung’s SAT math book and work through at least half of it and the 50 tips. Also get Gruber’s math WB and Crush the Test SAT Math if you can or have time, but, Dr. Chung’s is the best. </p>

<p>For Writing, definitely get Gruber’s Writing Workbook and memorize all the rules.
For Reading, memorize vocabulary from Direct Hits—for the comprehension part, just read A LOT! Become an avid reader and read stuff like the NY Times Op-ed. </p>

<p>This might also help for the Reading:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Best of luck!!</p>

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<p>@megan702: This was a great link, thanks!!!</p>