<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I was wondering how strict WFU is on the 1500 SAT (CR+M) for their big scholarships. My daughter's only taken the SAT's once, and she got 690 M, 800 R, 800 W so she's got a 1490/2290. On her SAT practice tests, she pretty regularly got 680's to 710's on her Math. Meanwhile, her Critical Reading score generally ran 740 to 780 so while she may go up on her Math, she could very well go down on Reading. Obviously, she could take the SAT again, but WFU is the only school she's considering that doesn't seem to have a 1450 cutoff for merit money and if she takes the test again, she's afraid she'll lose her 800 in the Verbal section. We haven't even looked at WFU yet - one of her friends did and liked it which is why it's now on my daughter's radar screen. I'm not sure retaking the SAT's is worth the trouble and stress. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Check with WFU admissions; but, I believe that most schools “super score” the SAT, meaning that they take the highest from each section - so, she can’t “lose her 800 in the verbal section”. Where did you hear that the cut-off for big scholarships is 1500? My daughter submitted ACT, not SAT scores but I can find very few details about scholarships on the WFU website. Any idea what the ACT cut-off is?</p>
<p>I don’t see any mention of ACT’s. Here’s the link to the scholarship page. <a href=“Student Financial Aid | Wake Forest University”>Student Financial Aid | Wake Forest University; If you click on the individual scholarships on the right, you’ll see where I got the 1500 number. </p>
<p>The phrase “[the scholarship winners are] often in the top 1 percent of their class, with SAT-1 scores above 1500” appears repeatedly in the scholarship descriptions. “Often” just makes it seem like they would consider a kid with a 1490. </p>
<p>Yes, the “often” makes me think that they are just trying to get the point across that these are really really competitive scholarships. </p>
<p>Ok. She’s decided she’s going to leave her SAT’s alone and hope for the best. She’s figuring that the more she works for one of these longshot scholarship schools, the more unhappy she’ll be if she ends up at one of her financial safeties, which realistically is the most likely scenario anyway, even if she were able to attain a perfect 2400. And those schools are looking better all the time to her. In other words, if her current score won’t stop her from consideration, that’s good enough.</p>