Some hope for low test scorers

<p>SAT: 1960.
SAT II: Math 1: 650 Math 2: 680 </p>

<p>Accepted to school of nursing :slight_smile: I killed myself with extracurriculars, good GPA, and pretty good essay.</p>

<p>Math 500, English 500, Grammar 500
I’m black and have no jail time.
Class of 2014 all the way babyyy</p>

<p>damn tonys!</p>

<p>I’m skeptical of tonys…</p>

<p>that IS really low</p>

<p>@HonorsCentaur
What you’re skeptical that a black man can live 18 years and not go to jail?</p>

<p>lol pretty sure he meant your scores.</p>

<p>Do you think with a 32 (first time - retaking in June) I would have a chance at the College or LSM programs?</p>

<p>Yes. The average matriculating student at Columbia/Penn/Dartmouth/Brown has a 31.5.</p>

<p>According to [ACT-SAT</a> Concordance](<a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/index.html]ACT-SAT”>http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/index.html), a 31.5 ACT score is roughly 1400 M+CR… That is generally below average for Ivies, especially if you are not URM.</p>

<p>@Joe_L514</p>

<p>I have heard from many sources (Princeton Review, College *******, etc.) that UPenn is “Safety” for me. I am highly skeptical, because my ACT score is not superior to any degree. What do you think would be an ACT score that would be very acceptable? Note that the 32 WAS the first and only time that I took the ACT.</p>

<p>Penn is not a safety for anyone.</p>

<p>That’s what I’m thinking. Which is kind of ridiculous for that to even be an option on sites like those.</p>

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<p>The equivalent SAT score is below average for Ivies, but the ACT score itself is not. What do you want me to tell you?</p>

<p>With a school like Penn, they may just mean you appear very qualified. But it’s not a computer that is making your admission decision, so I wouldn’t trust those sites. We have scattergrams that our school uses, and for many places, you can see that once you reach a certain gpas and test scores, most people will get in. The scattergram for Penn has no such pattern except that the people accepted all have very high gpas and test scores. Even in the region with the most people being accepted the majority of the symbols on the graph are red x’s, meaning that the student was rejected.</p>

<p>“What you’re skeptical that a black man can live 18 years and not go to jail?”
yo I ****ing hate when people do things like this. I didn’t say anything about you being black and not going to jail, in fact many of my friends are black and not even close to being convicts. I am skeptical that anyone gets into UPenn with an SAT score of 1500. I don’t care how qualified you are otherwise, 1500’s do not get you into Ivy League schools so I am still skeptical.</p>

<p>@HonorsCentaur , he’s obviously joking. those arent legit stats and he’s probably not black either</p>

<p>ahhhh yes makes more sense now, haha my bad.</p>

<p>good luck to all penn applicants, only 13 more days!</p>

<p>1900ish SAT and 27 ACT, but I had a creative supplement.</p>

<p>I got into Wharton and had a superscored 2190 (but I only had a 2000 on my first try) and a 32 on the ACT</p>