<p>I'm more of a Thomas Hardy person, but I will admit that The Stranger was pretty good.</p>
<p>i'm not bragging i'm just saying you don't have to study to get a good score and what not and that people with good scores shouldn't be generalized as testnerds....
all i did was look over some sample tests booklet. just focus and you will get a good score if you are smart</p>
<p>It's so funny to watch people with 1550s worrying whether they should retake. </p>
<p>How ironic that the people with the highest scores are often the stupidest.</p>
<p>First try: 1110 (510v/600m)
second try: 1110 (500v/610m)
best of both: 1120 (510v/610m)</p>
<p>I am a normal person, and I agree how everyone here seems to be some mutant genius. And for that guy saying "< 1200 means you really suck" well, suck on the SAT, yes, but not necessarily suck academically. Notice how schools tend to have scholarship tables that make it so people who have lower GPAs have to have higher SATs than those who have higher GPAs on that table. That probably made no sense, but whatever.</p>
<p>I have had a consistent A or B in math every year of school, and a nice A in AP calc. It's not that I don't know the crap, it's that the SATs do not test your knowledge, they test how well you can take a test--more specifically, a test that tests these obscure details that nobody really uses in the real world. I am not a good test taker, but I accel in most other things. I have to wonder if in real life, people who are not as good test takers are the better employee than those who are good test takers--after all, you don't really take tests in the real world. It's all about how well you can remember the information and apply it to what the job demands. Sure you can look it up, but it is more valuable to everyone if you just know it.</p>
<p>Yay! Go normal people!</p>
<p>Took the SAT only once, got a 1200 (very light preparation), but hopefully it will improve after the December test.</p>
<p>FOR EXAMPLE, THIS PERSON THINKS HE/SHE IS NORMAL.</p>
<p>"Okay, I'm actually a real goddamned person, not some 1500 pussy-assed prep school kid. My friend Matt and I think that this site only represents a minority, an upper minority. Well, I'm representing real kids... just okay people. I applied to Columbia College E.D. and I don't know if its just wishful thinking. Some kids are flippin prodigies and its depressing me.</p>
<p>My highest SAT scores: 690 verbal, 750 math
SAT IIs luckily don't matter, they are only for placement.
My weighted GPA is about 4.3, unweighted 3.4? I am ranked 10 out of 607.
I attend a suburban public high school, about 3000 kids. (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)
My essay was okay?
I'm Korean...
OH yeah, including this year... 8 APs, 9 honors classes.</p>
<p>My last semester of junior year I didn't get any A's. Still had a 3.6 though, and I still remain number 10.</p>
<p>I played tennis 4 years, 2 varsity. I started an anti-substance abuse club, 3 years. I was the HOBY ambassador. I was class vice-president for 2 years. I'm in NHS. I was the "director of cultural affairs" for the multi-cultural club. I'm president of amnesty international. OH yeah, I'm in academic decathalon too.</p>
<p>No big awards or anything. I was a homecoming princess, I put that down. I got an award from the city council for volunteer work during the grand prix fires.</p>
<p>I had an interview and I think it went well...</p>
<p>That's me... What do you think?"</p>
<p>if you suck on the sat you might be dumb and a hard worker.... just saying.... thats why you do good in school.... either that or you succumb to pressure... the SAT tests how well you can reason ... and i think it does it pretty welll except maybe analogies since thats basically tests who knows more vocab...either studied it or knew it from reading alot</p>
<p>True, the SAT is neither a fair exam nor is it a uniformed exam. Its actually advantageous to those who can afford the preps (my Korean friend5years in the us--spent hundreds of dollars on Kaplan tutors and scored 720m and 43v), and to those who are always exposed to an educated, intelligent-inducing environment, ie. Parents who has a solid education, prep schools, etc. Therefore the SAT isnt exactly an iq exam on a universal level, but who could say intelligence, creativity and the likes can actually be measured by an exam?
I went up 80 points on my second and last exam (taken in nov) and scored 1240, without much practice (I'm busy with college courses-4.0 ave, clubs/act, and a parttime job) without paying a penny for any prep materials/tutorsand coming from a family that has no American education, I speak English only half the time. And, Im tremendously shy and prone to becoming a nervous wreck (just before taking the SATIIs this dec, I was actually trembling and would have vomited if I had any food in my stomach)</p>
<p>I dont know what normal is, but if normal is defined as an average SAT, I guess Im normal as the lot outside this forum. Im cool wth that. ;)</p>
<p>Here's a "normal" sat curve:</p>
<p>Freshmen psat: 820
Junior psat : 910
1 sat : 1100
2 sat : 1230
3 sat (dec4) : 1280-1340 hopefully!</p>
<p>had to work my ass off!</p>
<p>Both pharamcists i work with didn't even break 1100 and one of them manages the pharmacy. Just FYI.</p>
<p>well then i think you would agree with the educator's passage on the dec. SAT. tests and academics are not all.</p>
<p>my friend's dad makes a million a year and got a 740 on the sat 30 years ago.</p>
<p>arvmister, that would be a 500 point increase if you got a 1300, that's crazy!</p>
<p>Anyway, it's bad enough to take the SAT once on a saturday morning, but to come here and go through every question again to see how many you got right, that's like two slaps in the face.</p>
<p>When I orginally started coming here back in June, I was immediately aggrevated and I thought I was stupid because I wasn't above 1400. I'm not going to an IVY league school, and I don't care. This forum is a very competitive forum. I have gotten a lot of feedback and help from college confidential members. It's a great place, but a lot of smart people hang out around here.</p>