<p>As many of you guy probably know, immigrants, especially asians, generally take all kinds of class to prepare for colleges, and many of them take the SAT course. I'm an asian immigrant as well, but i didn't take any SAT courses, i got books to help me study. and i got a 1790 (New SAT, of course) so should i mention that i studied on my own?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Well it depends, what was your best individual score?</p>
<p>I don’t think it will make much of a difference. Even the kids who did take a course and scored well won’t admit to a college that they payed for a tutor. A score is a score to the Admissions comittie, especially since tutoring can only raise ones score to a limited extent. I self studied to bring a low 600’s to low 700’s in CR.</p>
<p>that was the second time i took it, and i improved on all of the subjects, i had a 690 on math last time, but i didn’t improve that much on the other two subjects…</p>
<p>If you consider to put how you studied SAT in your application, include how you have been slept for entire your life!
Why don’t you include how you ate your dinner with your family?</p>
<p>I am not being offensive, but remember, college application does not want your private life! Also, how you studied SAT is not even important.</p>
<p>I would not mention it on your app. As was said, a score is just a score: colleges aren’t thinking about how much people put into a prep course. People have different styles of learning, so pointing out that you self-studied doesn’t weigh. You are capable of studying M on your own and raising it. I needed a tutor to explain the M concepts to me. That doesn’t make either of our scores less valid, or the way we studied interesting to colleges.</p>
<p>Neither taking a prep course nor studying on your own can be simply an advantage. You had to be self-disciplined with your studying, had to re-read materials, had to grade your own work, etc. I had to take a huge slice out of my schedule during the school week no matter what I had the next day, had homework from prep most nights, etc. Any way one studies for the SAT is a challenge, and I doubt colleges will care which challenge the student chose.</p>