<p>i know a lot of you guys are probably from NY. So... I have a question about regents exams-- how do competitive colleges look at them? (out of state, not SUNY)</p>
<p>I would also like to know about this? Explode, have you gotten any Cs on your regents exams?</p>
<p>No, but I did get a low A+... the rest were pretty much 99s because regents hates me. haha</p>
<p>lol same for me but I got a 76 for chem...ouch.. i was sick and they wont let me take it agian.</p>
<p>yeah, goodness... why did everybody do so poorly on chem? i did the worst on chem too, and a lot of people this year seemed to be disappointed with their grades.</p>
<p>I asked a Harvard counselor and she said that regents don't matter, just do well for yourself. This was at Exploring College Options</p>
<p>^ thanks for the info. i was told by my school that the state says that you cannot take the exam again if one passes, is it true?</p>
<p>colleges outside of ny don't consider regents at all, and even most schools in new york don't place much emphasis on the scores</p>
<p>Dennis173: It's not true that you can't take a Regents again if you pass. That might be your school's policy, but at my school you can take any Regents as many times as you want and only the highest score will count. If the "no retakes if you pass" policy was state-wide, I'm sure my school wouldn't be allowed to do it. I personally know a bunch of kids that have retaken Regents solely to get mastery. </p>
<p>As for colleges...I don't think Regents matter much, if at all, to them.</p>
<p>I don't know why everyone on here makes such a big deal about Regents. Most people outside of NY don't even know what they are. You don't see a bunch of posts on here about how Harvard will view the Ohio Graduation Test scores, or any other state standardized test for that matter. Colleges don't have time to figure out every state's tests, that's why they have the ACT and the SAT. And if you passed them, then you didn't do poorly on them. The idea of state tests is to get students to pass them.</p>
<p>^I used to live in NJ and I'm guessing the "Ohio Graduation Test" is similar to the HSPA there---like a standardized test taken during one pare of one year of high school for the state---like the ones taken in NY when we are younger. </p>
<p>The thing is that Regents are a little bit different than those, because they are taken as soon as you finish the course and are very course specific (Different Earth Science, Biology, and Chemistry exams, as opposed to just "Science"). At my school Regents are our Final Exams and count as 20% of our grade. They also show up on the high school transcipt by number score. So they kind of seem more influential than they might actually be.</p>
<p>I agree with kat above - you can retake a Regents exam for a better score, whether or not you pass the first time around. This is a well-kept secret at our hs, but the daughter of a friend has done this several times. This friend is a hs science teacher at a nearby school who is quite aware of the ins and outs of Regents exams.</p>
<p>If you think it's worthwhile to press hard enough, either at your school or through the Regents organization itself, you'll probably be allowed to retake. It's blatantly unfair for some NY students to be allowed a retake simply to improve a score if others are not.</p>
<p>As to how fair it is to retake only one exam, when other 10th and 11th graders take multiple tests during exam week and therefore have less time to study/sleep - I think that's debatable. My three kids are done with the Regents, thank God, but two of them could have improved their results a bit if we'd known they were allowed to retake and (key concept here) if they'd been willing to do so. But even if they'd known, they wouldn't have been willing! </p>
<p>As to how much OOS colleges pay attention to your Regents results - I wouldn't think they do, very much. Although the results do sit on your transcript, so they're there to be evaluated, if an adcom cares to do so.</p>
<p>Even if Regents scores count for a final grade, that is the only way they will be viewed by OOS colleges. Even NY's public universities will probably disregard them if you have otherwise good stats. The nation's colleges certainly do not consider every state's tests, so it would be rather discriminatory to only look at the Regents because they are so well-known. Unless they bring down your GPA, bad Regents scores won't deny you admission to a university.</p>
<p>Colleges rarely if never take into consideration an exam specific to one state.</p>
<p>Most schools will let you retake if you got a 55(which is a passing grade until next years regents where student who enter high school as of fall 2007 will have to pass each regents with a 65 or better).</p>
<p>Even if a student retakes the regents all scores are supposed to be reflected on the transcript not just the "best scores". So if a school does not post all grades they really are being disingenuous (here also lies the problem while some schools are forth coming, and only list the best grades on the transcript, all scores are reported to the state, so any adcom who had the time could really see how a school perfroms on the state wide exam).</p>
<p>Because of the overwhelming number of applicants from NYS that apply to elite schools (and one of largest population of students are from NYS schools, with most of those students coming from NY city) elite schools are very familiar with the NYS regents exams and they are looked at. While niot weighed as heavily as the SAT/SAT II tests) at in context to the grades that you have received.</p>
<p>The last problem with the regents was june 2003 when there were problems with the math and physics regents. Even then when the state rescaled the exam, GCs amended the transcripts and wrote letters explaining the scores.</p>
<p>I am quite sure if you talk to students who have been admitted to elite schools you will find that they have strong regents scores that correlate with their SATIIs and grades. (WYMMV, based on my experience with this years graduating class at the school that I worked at, most students that were admitted to the ivies and elite LACs graduated with advanced regents/honors diplomas).</p>