<p>So I took Chemistry and Math II and got 700 and 710, respectively.
I was so worried I would get 500s or 600s...I definitely should not have only studied the night before...
My SAT Reasoning is 2300 and my GPA is 3.85-3.9.</p>
<p>Am I still remotely competitive for Yale? (Let's assume that everything besides test scores are great). I am taking SATII french w/listening on saturday and plan/hope to get 700+.
Sorry for this post, just need a little reassurance for my crazy nerves.</p>
<p>Yeah I didn't do really great on the chemistry, only a 690...and I got a 700 on the Spanish. But I did get an 800 on the math II! Not that that is anything special though lol. My SAT cumulative score was only a 2210 though, and my GPA is 4.0 unweighted (4.5 weighted). I think everything else in my app was pretty good though, so do I have any chance either? I really hope so.</p>
<p>Haha nevermind I just decided that I'm screwed...ahh</p>
<p>Considering that an 800 on Math IIC is at least the 90th percentile; what will the adcom think about my 710? I mean, I got a 800 in Math on my SAT reasoning and I go to a math and science school...hope they think it was a fluke...</p>
<p>Amylopectin, it's totally OK. Your 800 SAT I is TONS more important. What are your math grades like in school? Are you taking tough math classes and getting As in them? How were any AP math scores? Yale says transcript (grades + classes) is the most important factor. And of course SAT I comes next. So assuming you do well in math at school, AND since you got an 800 SAT I, you are FINE.
Especially if you're not looking to go into math/science fields. Even then, if you beast the other science SAT IIs you will be fine.</p>
<p>thank you, MallomarCookie.</p>
<p>Yeah my SAT II math 2 wasn't quite up to my usual standard so I am glad I'm not submitting it to Yale</p>
<p>Mallomar, I don't think you get to choose which SAT scores get sent, unless you send no SAT scores at all.</p>
<p>You've gotta be kidding me! The best one I dealt with was Chem, where I got a 740. :D I got a 630 on English Literature (I swear I'm only good at the essays for such things, multiple choice I"m a sucker at!) and a 670 on Math 1. Yale gets to see all three of mine.</p>
<p>It sounds to me as if there could have been scoring errors in some of these subject test scores cc posters are reporting. If Collegeboard is making errors, I seriously doubt that they wil admit to them. They will not want to unpack a can of worms as they already have been serverely criticized for the past testing error, scores have dropped nationwide (and what collegeboard is not conveying is that scores have dropped significantly in those who score at the higer ranges, ie over 600. This is why some very top colleges are taking notice). There is something I read on cc that was troubling regarding rescoring by collegeboard. Last year a poster had received scores on his SAT I that were at least 100 points lower on each section than he expected and 100 points lower on each section than he had received on the previous SAT I he had taken. Believing collegeboard made an error, he paid the $50.00 for rescoring. He received a letter about six weeks later that said they reviewed his case and that no errors were found, and that the scores he received were accurate scores or something to that affect. He posted that on cc. Then in a much later post he indicated that he was surprised that many months after he received the letter that his scores were not made in error, he received a letter from collegeboard regarding the scores from that test and in that letter it was indicated that there was a scoring error in his scores from that very same test. In other words, he was part of the large scoring error that was uncovered from the October exam which was the very exam that he was told by collegeboard months before had no error in score reporting. The poster on cc believed that when he paid the $50.00 to have his SAT rescored from the October exam, that collegeboard did not really originally retrieve his answer sheet and hand score it against a stencil as they are supposed to do. Rather, someone probably just looked at the digital scan that collegeboard sends to all testtakers and either was too lazy to go and retrieve his actual answer sheet and hand score it, or for some reason decided not to. The fact that errors were found in his score report only after an investigation was underway at collegeboard to check thousands of answer sheets after an error was found in someone elses test, clearly indicates that for the $50.00 this test taker initially paid, his exam was not really rescoring initially as per his request.
Unfortunately collegeboard is a monopoly with no one overseeing them. When one requests rescoring, they have to trust that collegeboard is being honest and truthful. We are not privy to what they are doing. We do not get actual proof that they actually tracked down an answer sheet and matched them to a stencil with the answers. In essence, we as test takers have to take their word. The thing is that collegeboard has no vested interest in wanting to admit any errors at this point. They have already been criticized for making thousands of errors and not being forthcoming, and are losing customers who are switching over to the ACT. If a student were to put in a request for a rescore now and college board admits an error and other students put in requests for the same test and there are many, then they have to investigate which could show that there were other errors, and I am sure they dont want to go there.
I just wonder if the SATII reporting was accurate because I am reading of many receiving scores that seem much lower than they expected and do not correlate with how they tested in the past.</p>
<p>Nutmeg- Mallomar does not have to report it if he or she already has sent a score report to Yale with previous scores and did not put Yale down for the October exam to have the score sent. Yale would therefore have a previous report with all the scores to date. If Mallomar wanted to send that score he or she could indicate that after receiving the MathIIC scores. If Mallomar did not put Yale down as a recipient for the October exam Yale would have no way of knowing Mallomar took a subject test in October. If Mallomar has already sent three subject tests to Yale, or the ACT Mallomar is all set</p>
<p>exactly i already sent all scores to yale by the end of last yr. yale didnt require math2 so i didnt send it to them</p>
<p>Either way, the scores are fishy. I think that ever since they switched to the newer SAT more and more rubbish has been going on with their entire system, and far beyond the SAT I change!</p>