<p>I'm a high school senior and will be going to UC Davis next year, I want to transfer to a school that has a good undergrad business school, ideally Stern but that's a pipedream. </p>
<p>On the old 1600 scale I have a 1310. I heard somewhere that Stern and some other business schools don't look at the writing. True? False? For the SAT 2s, my highest scores are 670 and 660 but they are in US History and Lit. My SAT2 for Math 2C is only 650, should I retake this as well if I want to transfer into a business school?</p>
<p>Would you guys recommend that I retake my SATs? I read somewhere that for Stern they don't want you to take the SATs when you are in college and actually advise against it. So I'm guessing it applies to other schools as well. Right now I still have a chance to take it because I'm still a senior in high school.</p>
<p>I don't think my scores are that bad, I mean I'm not gonna be bragging about them anytime soon but I think they're decent. But I'd be willing to put myself through that hell again just for the admissions boost.</p>
<p>Btw, I will be trying to transfer in my freshman year INTO my sophmore year.</p>
<p>You mean retake the SATs while in college? I dont think that will benefit you that much. (may even hurt you if you dont improve alot from your highschool score) Just do really well at UC and take a solid business curriculm with math courses and try to do really well at them. That way youll show them that you have adequate skills in math to be successful in business.</p>
<p>I think I'm past the deadline for the May SATs, so June would be my last shot. Which should I retake? SAT1s? Or my SAT2s? Which is worse?</p>
<p>I guess nothing's lost, except a lot of my free time. Do you think my scores that THAT bad that I would be an automatic reject without retaking?</p>
<p>Your SATIIs are terrible, your SATs only slightly less so, from what I gather. Drop the math, unless you can get an 800, since anyone any their pet dog can--I might be exaggerating, but it seems you're not going to get that great of a score in the math part, and there are lots of better scorers there. If you can, try a language, US/world history and or lit.</p>
<p>Try the ACT, it's easy, and you can get a weirdly high percentile with a score in the 30s.</p>
<p>You're right about the ACTs, I took it once and I don't think there was a single question in there that I didn't know. Except I have OCD which makes the ACTs hard because it seems to be more about speed than getting the correct answer. My OCD makes the SATs hard too but I can deal with it better than I can on the ACTs because there're less questions per minute. It's not so much me not knowing the answers it's just a matter of getting to them all, because I have to reread questions several times before I feel comfortable answering them, and I rework math problems sometimes before I feel comfortable bubbling them in. And the bubbles have to be perfect circles so I go really slow when I bubble them. I'm not trying to write a sob story, it's just kinda fyi.</p>
<p>So I'd like to avoid retaking the ACTs, but if my SAT IIs are that bad then I guess I don't really have a choice in retaking them. And so I'd have to take the ACTs in lieu of the SATs.</p>
<p>Your SAT isn't that bad really, but if the SAT IIs are required, then take those first, in something you're good at. ACT is super intuitive, but for some people, the SAT is better.</p>