<p>what have I done?! I just ruined an important part of my application! I just don't understand what happened. Let me explain, I took the writing, spanish, and math2 SATII back in October and scored a respectable 730 on each, but then I took them again in December and failed... miserably. I scored a 460 in spanish, a 480 in writing and a 640 in math. I don't understand what happened. I had a bit of a tough morning and was under stress about personal things, but I never thought I did THAT bad! I know Tufts only considers the highest scores, but they are still going to see these death scores. It will definitely raise their eyebrows to the ceiling, I just know it. Should retake the SATIIs in January to prove that I really just had a bad morning? I know those scores don't reflect me at all. I really really want to go to Tufts and everything else in my app is just fine. I've done everything I possibly can to show Tufts I want to go there. I was planning on applying EDII, but now I might reconsider with those horrible new scores. Please help. Should I try EDII anyway? Or go to RD so I can retake them in January. If I did ED might they accept the new January scores? I just don't know what to do. :(
WHY DID I RETAKE THOSE TESTS!? I don't know, I was bored? Please, if you have any advice or stories about kids like me who still got in, I'd appreciate it. Thanks :(</p>
<p>What does the rest of your application look like - GPA, class rank, SAT I's,
ec's, etc.? If everything else is stellar I would probably just provide an
explanation about the last round of SAT II scores and go with EDII for the
advantage that might give you.</p>
<p>Ranked top quartile, school doesn't rank. GPA 3.99 with .5 pts weighted towards AP and honors classes. SAT1 (710v/600m). AP Calc, AP Bio, AP English lit, Honors History, and AP Spanish this year. I have everything prepared for ED: Why Tufts? essay, optional essay and supplement. For ECs I have Pres of Student Gov, Pres of Choir, office in Drama Guild, lead in musicals, been in professional choirs, All-state, districts, lots of volunteering, secretary for a business over last summer, lots of music for last 12 years, toured in europe with a select choir from Boston Conservatory, recognized for top scores on Atlantic Pacific and MCAS, and played on a varsity team. Some other stuff too. My recs were so-so, but they rated me highly. I can't really judge my own essays, but people liked them. uhh, I'm not sure what else to put down. I did the overnight and visited twice. I'm hoping for an interview. I don't know, I think I'm competative, under-average for Tufts, but still competative. It's just those scores! I mean, I could subit an explanation, but I don't know what it would say. It's just the strangest thing. I never saw this coming. Blah. I called admissions earlier today to ask about how they viewed situations like this. They said that they don't see very many people drop their scores more than 100 pts. Wow, so yeah. It's not been a good day.</p>
<p>Aww that stinks soo bad...Is there any way you can send your thing and leave off those worse scores? Like I took the SATs last may and send Tufts my scores, took the SAT IIs in june and sent them my scores, and then re-took the SATs in October, did worse and didn't send my scores to Tufts..so I don't know if that sort of thing works for you. You would've had to have sent your past scores already...</p>
<p>If what mjones said doesn't apply to you, then do write a letter explaining whatever personal issues that were going on that day. I'm sorry this happened but I'm sure that if you write the letter, the Tufts admission people's eyebrows will move back into normal position. They do say they take the highest scores so the letter will make them less confused and will allow them to do just that- use the highest scores and ignore the rest. Go ahead and apply ED2; your old scores were high enough as it were so it's senseless to take the tests again. Besides, the drop is so drastic and so consistent (it happened in all 3 of the tests, not just one) that it's clear that something was awry with you that day so there's no real need to prove to them that you didn't suddenly get dumb or whatnot. The admissions people are human, I'm sure they'll understand. And applying ED will help your chances of getting in so if you were going to do it originally, I highly recommend that you do it despite the situation with the scores. Good luck!</p>
<p>Or maybe they'll think you cheated the first time. Lol, jk. Better straighten that out.</p>
<p>Aw, I highly doubt they would go so far as to think that you cheated. Don't sweat it about that possibility.</p>