<p>Right now I have Math II 800 and Literature 610</p>
<p>I'm planning to take the World History and the Physics this June</p>
<p>My question is, should I retake the Literature test? I'm not sure how good skills in understanding archiac poetry and that stupid "Prosody 101" poem will be an asset to a Business Major, but I don't think the 610, 40th percentile, will be attractive to any college either. Btw, I want to get into Ivy, or at least somewhere better than Maryland College Park or Georgetown Prep.</p>
<p>A 610 won’t do you much justice with most of the T25 schools; look into retaking it or taking other SAT IIs whose higher scores can hopefully make up for lit (also have a decent SAT CR score to prove you’re not totally illiterate).</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests are meant to be a deeper, more standardized way of proving proficiency in one or more academic subjects. They are very obviously not geared toward any particular collegiate academic program, especially pre-professional programs such as business. Use your common sense: business program adcoms are looking for a variety of high score SAT Subject Tests regardless of their applicability to actual business.</p>
<p>Also a side note, better than “Georgetown prep”? That’s a prep school, not a college. If you mean Georgetown University, well, I’m not even going to bother explaining why it’s moronic to set that as your low bar.</p>
<p>It’s cause I went to Georgetown University and their campus had the worst mix possible of every building style. Very unpleasant, too cramped and tight, and it’s got all those weird stairs and walkways</p>
<p>Anyways, my SAT reading is about 750, if that helps alleviate the negative impact of my 610 on Literature. I’m not sure how to study for Literature, because I got the Kaplan book, got consistent 700+ on the practice tests (because half the poems were Shakespeare Sonnets or UNDERSTANDABLE, not this crap:</p>
<p>When they taught me that what mattered most
was not the strict iambic line goose-stepping
over the page but the variations
in that line and the tension produced
on the ear by the surprise of difference,
I understood yet didn’t understand
exactly, until just now, years later
in spring, with the trees already lacy
and camellias blowsy with middle age,
I looked out and saw what a cold front had done
to the garden, sweeping in like common language,
unexpected in the sensuous
extravagance of a Maryland spring.
There was a dark edge around each flower
as if it had been outlined in ink
instead of frost, and the tension I felt
between the expected and actual
was like that time I came to you, ready
to say goodbye for good, for you had been
a cold front yourself lately, and as I walked in
you laughed and lifted me up in your arms
as if I too were lacy with spring
instead of middle aged like the camellias,
and I thought: so this is Poetry!)</p>
<p>and I have no idea how to even find poems like this or understand them. Can you help me?</p>