<p>I need help too! My may scores were as follows:</p>
<p>CR 380
M 720
W 560 (MC 53 Essay 9)</p>
<p>It's nice to see people with scores lower than mine on CC. All I can say is grab a book and practice. That's exactly what im planning to do this summer.</p>
<p>just read. read whatever you can get. that is how you can raise your English score.
get a book and work from it until you feel like you're going to vomit if you see a SAT question again.
It's a very effective method, try it.
good luck</p>
<p>personally, i dont really mind the SAT. id rather have a test i can study alot for, master, and get into a good school. with practice, it's not too difficult. most schools DO require the SAT.</p>
<p>They aren't crap schools, but if you also look at the average SAT score for those schools, even though they don't "require" SAT scores, is pretty high. A lot of the scores are 1400+ (M+V). I used to think it wasn't fair to base your admission based on the SAT, but I realized it isn't fair also to not have a level playing field, which the SAT offers. To be honest, you have to be at the level of the average SAT, or you probably won't fair well in the college that accepts you.</p>
<p>I have to say I agree with dancingbear... I really hate tests, but I'd rather have a test and know what to expect then have every college use different methods of evaluation making prep vitually impossible.</p>
<p>Just start going through as many practice problems and tests as you can to raise your score by october.</p>
<p>Of course the average SAT scores for SAT optional schools are high---kids with low SATs are not submitted them, so the "average" is skewed on the high end</p>
<p>Mt. Holyoke, Bard, and especially Middlebury are NOT crap schools. What are you guys on??! OK, so "connecticut college" isn't prestigious. Those schools ARE prestigious! You guys are really dumb.</p>
<p>I personally think it's kind of lame for peo
ple who score in the 400s on SATs to complain about "crap schools" especially when those schools aren't crap. Sorry, you can't get into Harvard. Hate to break it to you.</p>
<p>The middle 50% of students at Holyoke (SAT-optional) have the following scores according to college board:</p>
<p>That means 25% of students who are accepted have HIGHER scores and 25% have lower. You people have a long way to go so stop saying good schools are "Crap."</p>
<p>Look at Middlebury, where 80 percent of applicants submit scores!</p>
<p>if you knew it was sarcasm, then why did you respond like that?
notice the emphatic use of punctuation and capitalization. not to mention how you called them "really dumb." sorry about my apparent mistake (since you KNEW it was sarcasm). sorry, i guess i was just mislead by the aforementioned things in your post...</p>
<p>oh, and ps, i didn't act like you were stupid. i don't even know you or anything about you, so i wouldn't presume to act like you were stupid. in fact, i simply thought that you hadn't read the entire thread when you posted. after reading your post i assumed that you only read up to huskem's post and nothing further, leading you to believe that people did, in fact, call them "crap schools." but once again, i guess i was mistaken. so i apologize once again if you thought i acted like you were stupid.</p>
<p>dude those schools r the minority rather than the norm. to my knowledges most of the good universities need a SAT/ACT score..</p>
<p>stuck-on-1700 said </p>
<p>huskem55
skywalker is right</p>
<p>so...i assumed they were referring to the group of SAT-optional schools that huskem later explicitly listed. they were dissing them, even if they didn't do it by name. so i was calling them out on it. whatever.</p>
notice he said "most of the good universities," not all. i do not believe that skywalker or stuck-on-1700 were dissing the schools. but the internet is tricky, you never know what emotions are trying to be evinced. so, i guess we just had different interpretations of the same post.</p>