<p>I am thinking of transfering from a cc to Tufts, should I try and take the SAT's even at the ripe old age of 27? I never took them in high school.Tufts said it was not required, but that I would be competing against students who do have them. any advice?</p>
<p>bump........</p>
<p>guess nobody cares about helping old people! LOL</p>
<p>I know a guy who is 30 and takes it every time and gets almost 100%. Of course he is a SAT instructor. :)</p>
<p>yeah retake them. </p>
<p>Don't expect people to respond to your post in 6 minutes. especially in this forum. this isn't a chatroom.</p>
<p>and it's a friday. :)</p>
<p>i have several posts that got no response... so u're on the lucky side,</p>
<p>Age shouldn't matter at all. Take practice tests because college board people really screwed w/ the test. But i think it became easier if u were never good at analogies, but are able to read and write and know ur trig,</p>
<p>All things that i can do. :)</p>
<p>OMG, Today was Friday!!!</p>
<p>Wow, I spent the entire day thinking it was Thursday.</p>
<p>[Sits in corner, hugs self and rocks back and forth]</p>
<p>lol... trust me i am bored out of mind too.</p>
<p>Hi, yes you can take the SAT's, I did and I am well past 27. Just study for them. They will help your acceptance at some schools. I am not familiar with Tufts policy but some schools do not require them for CC transfer students. However, there are some schools that require them of everybody. Like mentioned above, make sure and study for them but know that they will have less of an impact on your acceptance than they do for someone who has never attended college or is applying straight from HS.
My experiance taking them was a test to my pride but I held my head high with my two sharpened pencils and tried not to focus on the fact that I probably could be the parent of a few of my fellow test takers. My advice is try and take it at a local college if possible. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>tufts is very transfer friendly. i wouldn't worry about them if you're applying only to tufts and have strong grades</p>
<p>SAT isnt about age, but your mentality and ability in mastering a large variety of vocabularies and reading!!!! If you want to do it, just go for it! buy several prep books and prepare for it. I have frds who studied the book for two months and got 1440 out of 1600 while english is only her second language!</p>
<p>believe in yourself and do it!</p>
<p>Best wishes to you.</p>
<p>btw, your current GPA is only a main factor too. SAT is a bit minor i think.</p>
<p>dream, thats the old SAT. New one doesn't have vocab and analogies fortunatly...</p>
<p>you still need the word list for sentence compoletion, boy!</p>
<p>is it vocab heavy like the old one? cause a friend of mine who took told me, it isn't... The old SAT had half reading and half sentenc comp/analogies... So whatever they did i hear it's an improvement.</p>
<p>haha, I took both the old and the new one before and I can tell you that ample amount of vocab are still needed. even in those critical reading part! there're still sentence completions too. =)</p>
<p>Most schools waive the SAT requirement for students over 21. I transferred from CC to Kent at 25 and never even had to worry about ACT scores or anything like that.</p>