<p>Tinas, is 1720 your final SAT score? It's not horrible but the chances don't look so good for JHU. Good luck though! If you don't get into JHU, I hope another school can see your potential. I'm going to apply to JHU next year.</p>
<p>If I don't get into JHU, I'm enlisting in the army and going to Iraq so I can die, because the pain will be too much for me to bear.</p>
<p>tinas,</p>
<p>Have you considered taking the SAT again?? I know it sounds late, but there are always the December and January test dates. I understand that your heart may be set on JHU, but a better SAT score can only improve your chances at other schools, should you have to go that route. And, just in case you are deferred at JHU this round, you will definitely want to improve your SAT score in order to enhance your chances for regular decision.</p>
<p>E-mail me if you need some SAT advice. It's not too late...</p>
<p>I took it in November and I'm taking SAT 2 bio and lit this december. Nothing in January, i can't handle it anymore. No matter how many times I take I won't improve. </p>
<p>It doesn't matter anymore anyway, I won't get in JHU no matter what. RD is too late and it'll be even harder to get in. Its not fair, I hate the SAT. I hate it so goddamn much I wish it didn't exist. My life is ruined becuase of it. I have no future becuase of it. Its not fair. Its really really not fair.</p>
<p>...no life because of it? right....i'm sure you'll get into some college and do fine..whether you like it or not, standardized tests are necessary to seperate applicants...after all, without them, college decisions would be insanely difficult for adcoms.</p>
<p>I'm sure you did great on your November SAT. Keep your head up. After all, what a lot of us fail to realize is that if we don't get into our top school, we can transfer later on. Plus, there can't be only one school on this earth that would fit you well. Try and put things in perspective. The SAT is not going to dictate the rest of your life. Too many people are of the mindset that they must go to a prestigious university to be successful, which is solid crap. After all the CUNY system has more nobel prize winners than any other university in America, meanwhile not many people are jumping up and down screaming "I want to go to CUNY Brooklyn."</p>
<p>Look ppl, I know so many successful people out there in the world making more than 100,000 a year and they weren't geniuses on the SAT's...</p>
<p>here's the thing.. SAT tests how CRITICALLY you REASON certain subjects. have you ever seen the math section of the SAT's? It's barely math. Mostly reasoning.. "If you have 4 consecutive integers, and the median is.. blah blah" or when they throw you with weird shapes like "4 triangle 3 = 4 x 4 + 3" </p>
<p>SAT's really don't measure much.. but I guess colleges really NEED to, somehow, compare all applicants on the same standard of measurement. </p>
<p>Sucks, huh. Life isn't fair.</p>
<p>i agree with all of you i just don't see how i can improve my score what can i do i had a 1740 the first time around and really have to get a 2200 or i'm really done for colleges and no joke but the thing is that i can't get past a certain limit 5 wrong on each Cr section and 5 omit on total math part oft the SAT's and now my brother is telling me that it will never happen i will never get there and my app's are due in 4 days so i just get rally depressed </p>
<p>is there anything i can do>?????????</p>
<p>i don't find any point in studding for the Dec sats now only a week left there is nothing no one can do to raise his is her score by 400 point in just a week</p>
<p>i'm so disappointed</p>
<p>"i'm really done for colleges and no joke"</p>
<p>Why are you really done for? There are TONS of colleges out there that a 1740 is a GOOD score for.</p>
<p>Maybe some of you are just setting your sights a little too high.</p>
<p>its either the programs i get into in these schools or I'm shipped off to another country that's what my parents said and i believe the same thing because if I'm not good enough for American colleges then i deserve to go to a bad college in a foreign country</p>
<p>i'm stupid because of my low sat score and there is nothing in a week that i can do to improve it i've done near 500 Sentence completion and Cr passages and i wind up with eh same mistakes studying no avail and my math is the same as well</p>
<p>its not like someone will give me a technique that is flawless for math and Cr </p>
<p>this is real life where there is failure and a lot in my case</p>
<p>Well, why do you love JHU so much ? There may be other colleges at least nearly as great as JHU.
And I wonder, why do you believe that you will be outright rejected because of your SAT score - a 4-hour achievement ?
And would you mind telling me the reason why you can not improve in the January test ?</p>
<p>as horrible as the SAT may be; it's not going anywhere and you're stuck with it. so why not just accept the fact that there is nothing you can do about it.</p>
<p>Well life is full of obstacles that need to be overcome and the SAT is one of them. All you can do is prepare for it and do the best you can!</p>
<p>I prepared so much, but it didn't work. And my November 4th SAT didn't go well either, at one point I just stopped and started to cry because I knew I did awful.</p>
<p>maybe you'll have better luck the next time...he test is mainly dependant on luck..you r taking it again right?</p>
<p>Taking it again? No.</p>
<p>All i can say is....make sure ur essay rocks.....i sound like a retrard repetiting myself over and over again but.......ur essay can really make up for ur scores.....DON'T GIVE UP!!!! U CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!:)</p>
<p>Well, in that case....I'm good to go ^____^</p>
<p>My essays were amazing, I gave em to a couple of people and it made them cry.</p>
<p>I would hope that someone as resolute on going to JHU as you are would be able to overcome the drudgeries of the SAT, no matter how life-ruining they are...</p>
<p>Seriously, just give it one more shot. I'm sure that the last kind of person JHU wants is someone who lets these things get in the way of his/her success. At least be mature about it; constantly telling yourself that your life is over and that it's unfair isn't going to accomplish anything. I looked at your stats, and they're really good. I'd hate to see that talent go to waste just because you gave up. As for your statement: at one point I just stopped and started to cry... it's a matter of not letting your emotions interfere with your thought process. If you stop there, you're not going to get any further, just keep going, and hopefully things will turn out all right. If you've honestly done everything within your control, then you shouldn't have any regrets later.</p>
<p>And by the way, I took the SAT in May after preparing a crapload for it, and didn't quite reach my expectations. I was really depressed of course, since I felt that all that preparation sort of went to waste. I registered to retake in October, without nearly as much preparation as I had for May, and surpassed my initial goals. I attribute this to a) my emotional preparedness b) the 12 hours of sleep that I got the night before. If you look at things in a more positive light, they tend to go better, I think...</p>
<p>And if your essays made people cry, I'm sure they'll help you out a lot. I mean, words are more moving than are numbers.</p>