Hello everyone. Coming from an underprivileged background, I had little idea what the SAT even was. The one thing I knew was that I wanted to get into a top tier college for my intended major. I, like everyone else, was planning to take the SAT in my junior year, studying for it during the summer intensively. However, one of my friends told me that “it sucks that the SAT is changing; its going to be harder to get into colleges because sat scores will be lower because the new one is harder”. Because my family didn’t even know what the SAT was, I went to my counselor. She said “if you want, take it. It’s good practice”. So I signed up and paid 50 dollars extra for the late fee because I was under the pretense that I could get an amazing score and the SAT was easy.
I was wrong. I got a 1970, a score nowhere near the ranges of my top choices. To worsen this, because I didn’t know what “sending scores” meant (I was baited into using them because I got “4 free score sendings”), I sent the 1970 to my top four colleges, one of them being Harvard. This doesn’t even let me use the full extent of the score choice option.
Does this ruin my chances completely, or do I have an ok chance? (I believe I have a really solid application)
Do you think these schools will see that I took it as a sophomore and come from an underprivileged circumstance, and will it affect how the treat the score?
Will I need to write a supplement reasoning for this low score?
Is 1970 at least decent for a sophomore who didn’t study?
After I took the old SAT, I started studying for the new SAT and got a perfect score on the PSAT. I know that with even more studying I will get a perfect score on the real SAT. What will colleges think when I have taken the SAT twice, with a major score jump?
How will the scoring of the new and old SAT factor into superscores?
If I sent my score as a sophomore, will it leave the college database (like a wipe or something) by the time I submit my application in junior year?
Thank you!