<p>lol, im the only one applying to top 20 schools in the US at my school, so my friends wanna be there, but imma jus open it alone</p>
<p>man i wish i went to a school where i was the only one applying to a top 20 school. everyone here is insane T_T</p>
<p>lol trust me its hard, we dont have an SAT club or anything. Furthermore, i hade to study for ACT and SAT 2 in like 3 momths, while all my friends were having fun, it gets to you mentally, atleast in the US you arent alone.</p>
<p>lol who the hell has an SAT club</p>
<p>@Ranyixin daw that’s the best thing I’ve ever heard </p>
<p>@manas1997 not sure how common it is for a school to have an “SAT club”… I’ve personally never heard of that haha </p>
<p>There’s probably ~100-150 people applying to top 20s from my school. Mainly because we are in the UC system though </p>
<p>Edit: @superdub I laughed hard at your post haha</p>
<p>@Connor2019 Your school doesn’t have a Varsity SAT team? </p>
<p>*We have trials we qualify in to be selected. We need to bench a score of 2100 to get into Junior Varsity and 2200 to get into Varsity. </p>
<p>Okay, in the sat club defense…
… My school at least offers sat prep classes, which may not be as readily available in other countries </p>
<p>on other threads I have heard of SAT prep clubs/classes being offered</p>
<p>Think about it this way. I don’t think any tax dollars go toward providing standardized test prep courses. Like sure an SAT prep class could use space in a school, advertise and some of the kids that sign up might go to the same school, likely because it’s close to where they live. But I highly doubt it’s actually part of any public school system. And it def costs money. Also isn’t there places you can go to get standardized test prep in Canada? </p>
<p>@Connor2019 yes but there were few, and mostly all are in Toronto( this is my experience). I live about 30-40 mins away so I found the distance and money a bit unnecessary, I just worked my ass off and got a 33, went up from a 29. The biggest thing though is that I had no one to talk to about the whole admissions process and ACT prep whereas in the US, students can just talk to each other. Even my teachers couldnt give me some tips to tackle the english section.</p>
<p>@manas1997 Something I just thought of- if we, in the US, are taking AP classes in school, sometimes preparing for those tests, a lot of the time in class, will help prepare us for other college board tests, and the ACT but not as directly. For example, preparing for the AP Lit exam should gives you very similar tools you’ll want for the SAT Literature subject test and the SAT CR. Or taking AP Spanish will also prepare you to take an SAT Spanish subject test. And it’s in our teachers’ best interests to prepare us well for these tests as our AP scores reflect on their teaching. So this is one way I guess US students have an advantage when it comes to standardized tests. </p>
<p>But in the end, these tests are all very well known and there probably isn’t a single useful thing you can’t figure out by using the internet and prep guidebooks. If someone is really driven.</p>
<p>And btw going from a 29 to a 33 is a really impressive jump haha congrats! </p>
<p>Where and at exactly what time do the results come out?</p>
<p>This is … Cornell. Amazing video, check it out. You’ll realize you made a great decision by applying ED :-)</p>
<p><a href=“http://vimeo.com/23897683”>http://vimeo.com/23897683</a></p>
<p>@Connor2019 yeah see my school only offers one AP, literature, and is offered in senior year, so basically it is useless for me, I hate english class! Thank you, how does course selection work in the US, can one be done woth physics by junior year? over here, physics, bio and chem end in senior, in fact calculus is offered in 2nd sem grade 12,</p>
<p>Does cornell typically interview EDers for engineering?</p>
<p>I didnt get an interview, i applied CoE</p>
<p>I improved the most self studying. I personally don’t but in to that whole wealthy people buy good test scores thing. All you need is a blue book, red book, and some dedication.</p>
<p>@manas1997 it varies a lot from school to school. But in mine we take Lit our junior year Lang senior year (some schools have them flipped, and I believe doing Lang first is a little more common). And for me, physics is only for Seniors. And we might be in a bio course anytime from 9-12th grade, and a chem course anytime from 10-12th grade, but I only did one year of each. And at my school we only have calc AB for seniors, but I know at other schools sometimes kids can take AB junior year and BC senior year or I’ve heard some schools have the option to skip right to BC.
But again, it varies a lot! </p>