<p>So.... I need to know if this is a good score for the NEW SAT or a bad score.</p>
<p>Critical Reading 470<br>
Math 520<br>
Writing 460 </p>
<p>It comes out to be a 1450. I need some advice. Is that considered an acceptable score for the NEW SAT? Please respond! I'm clueless!</p>
<p>Well.... each section is out of 800, so the highest possible score is 2400
hope that helps....</p>
<p>thats about average actually ... slightly below average in reading and writing but above average in math. it will get you into many colleges with some strong EC's and a decent GPA.</p>
<p>"acceptable scores" are determined by what kind of college you want to get into. but if you are so 'clueless' about the SAT process, you might want to take a few practice tests and familiarize yourself with it more before taking it again (you should because it couldnt hurt, and because those scores are not high enough for the more selective colleges)</p>
<p>The middlemark is around 1600, and I hear that everyone's score goes up when they take it again in senior year...</p>
<p>That would be a below average score. Hate to break it to you, but you will have difficulty getting into a four year university with that score, unless you happen to be fantastic at a sport.</p>
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That would be a below average score. Hate to break it to you, but you will have difficulty getting into a four year university with that score, unless you happen to be fantastic at a sport.
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Yeah, I guess its community college for her just becaue she got an average SAT score right? I'm disguste by people like you.</p>
<p>UConn for example requires somewhere below that,
many other colleges probly require the same thing.
4-year colleges aren't THAT hard to get into
but dude... if you aiming for anywhere from like top 100 colleges and up (search "usa weekly college rank" to see the list)
You need work! Doesn't hurt if you're a junior... you got all summer.
Pick up a book, memorize a few vocabs, go thru some flash cards and you can increase your scores by much more than that.
THE SAT IS BASED ON A VERY LIMITED SCOPE OF STUDIES, just get the tricks, the trends, and you'll increase your scores to maybe 1800 to 2000, and that can help you a lot in getting into great colleges.</p>
<p>1500 is average, so slightly below...you could easily (when i say easily, i mean studying of course, lol) raise it by next year.</p>
<p>a 2300 is pretty average, i mean please..
c'mon</p>
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Yeah, I guess its community college for her just becaue she got an average SAT score right? I'm disguste by people like you.
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Oh, do calm down. I didn't say she couldn't do it, I said it would be difficult with those scores. Her admissions essay will have to be of fairly high caliber, which will be difficult. I didn't condemn her, or call her stupid, because she isn't. She will have difficulty getting into a four year university, so I informed her of that, as nobody else saw fit to. If she wants to go to a four year college, she should try to raise the score, or concentrate on the other elements that will be present on her application. Don't demonize me because I gave a valid opinion that you didn't read carefully enough to avoid taking offense.</p>
<p>timmotheus, I don't agree with you either,
4-year colleges are there for a reason, because they all have something to offer. Look at some avg SAT scores for other colleges, just becuz it isn't on the list, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I appreciate your input, but maybe there are some colleges that aren't Harvard or MIT or Princeton, and all of them brought out in people great potentials.
here's the ranking site:
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php</a></p>
<p>Timmotheus, if you genuinely believe that her slightly below average SAT score will keep her out of a four year university, it would probably be best if you stopped giving out advice on these matters. Granted, she'll have a tought time making it into the more selective schools, but most schools accept a significant majority of their applicants, and a person with her SAT score will have no problem getting into lots of four-year colleges.</p>
<p>What you said may not have been mean, but it did show a complete lack of perspective on college admissions. There are plenty of schools outside of USNWR's top couple of tiers, and many of them are good schools, and JackieBelle could easily get admitted to a bunch of them.</p>
<p>I didn't say she couldn't get into a four year university. I said it would be difficult. She will have to prove herself through another medium. Sports was an example.
There is a point, however, where one must apologize, and I believe this is it. I must express myself more clearly.
however, looking at the USNews list of colleges, there are a number of schools with a high acceptance rate. Antioch college, for example, which is one of the few I can see with the limited free access that I have, is by no means a top tier college, and has an acceptance rate of 75%. However, the average SAT score at the college is still well above the national average. While that certainly doesn't exclude JackieBelle, it does make her have to prove herself through another medium in order to get accepted. There are other colleges I can see, however, that find JackieBell nearer the middle range, so perhaps my case is slightly overstated. It is not, however, ridiculous.</p>
<p>Timmotheus I hope you get screwed in the ass and rejected from ur college choices. Don't talk about stuff you looked in a book for, if that is all the knowledge you have, don't talk.</p>
<p>Jackie, your score is average and with some practice can easily be brought up to a 1600-1700 I think with some effort. Buy the blue CB book and take the first practice test. Then look at everything that you got wrong and try to figure out how to get it right next time and review the strategies they include earlier in the book. The CB book is not the book for material, but the practice tests are good.</p>
<p>"Timmotheus I hope you get screwed in the ass..."- gigante</p>
<p>Just doing my job, people.</p>
<p>i wonder how these responses would differ if this post hadn't been form a girl....</p>
<p>you think they would have been harsher?</p>
<p>Backing up what Timmotheus said, acceptance rates have nearly nothing to do with selectivity. Example: Harvey Mudd has a 38% acceptance rate but astronomical SAT scores, with an 800 math score 75th percentile. A little something called self-selection, and in reverse, over exposure, for schools like UCLA, where lots of people apply.</p>
<p>ignore gigante, he is obviously bitter.
"good" is relative. You are not helping anyone by telling them they still have a chance at great schools with those scores. Retake the SAT with some practice and hope you do well. A 4 year college isnt by definition better than a community college anyway.</p>
<p>I'd just like to point out that quote one more time...I'm thinking gigante wanted to add "by me" at the end of it, but opted out...</p>