<p>Snow day here too!</p>
<p>I have only two problems with this quote, first off I can't find the article, and second off I'm pretty sure that the dean of admissions is Robin G. Mamlet not Richard Shaw.</p>
<p>Robin G. Mamlet resigned the post just this year; Richard Shaw took over as dean of Admissions.</p>
<p>Just to put in my two cents...
Aeggie, you may make some valid points, but I think it's important for us all to have respect for each other - even if this is just a random internet forum. It's always seemed to me that we've been able to get along, and I'd hate for that to be ruined by a small disagreement over a standardized test. And yes, Aeggie, while it is true that we all have weaknesses, I doubt anyone appreciates being reminded of them. I don't think your comments are accomplishing anything (we're probably mostly done with our SATs anyways), so in my opinion, maybe we should just drop it.
And for what it's worth, I got an 800 and a 11 on the essay (Writing SAT II), and I still think SATs are an inadequate measurement of ability.</p>
<p>here's the article:</p>
<p>you can find the quote on the chart on the second page.</p>
<p>[EDIT] Here are links to Kaplan research that the chart was based off of:
<a href="http://www.kaptest.com/repository/templates/ArticleInitDroplet.jhtml?_relPath=/repository/content/College/Learn_About_the_Tests/SAT/CO_sat_adminpol.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.kaptest.com/repository/templates/ArticleInitDroplet.jhtml?_relPath=/repository/content/College/Learn_About_the_Tests/SAT/CO_sat_adminpol.html</a></p>
<p>I didn't mean to offend anyone, though the atmosphere here does make me testy sometimes (2390?! Crisis indeed). I was just saying, basically, that the essay wasn't "unfair", at least not in relation to the rest of the test. I didn't point fingers at anyone, not specifically, and I didn't think I was being harsh either.</p>
<p>I don't think I said anything insulting at all, at worst I was critical. Some of the people here, I think, are just a little full of themselves.</p>
<p>I am not emotionally invested in the argument, in any case. Honestly, I didn't do particularly well on the essay myself (Someone was dilligent enough to look up my score, which made me laugh), but I would still defend it as a fair test.</p>
<p>haha I wasn't offended; I did well on writing and I'm happy with my sub 800 score. Nobody can ever prove a test is "unfair." All they can say is it didn't measure their own ability to do what it said it would measure, which is pretty valid.</p>
<p>I just want it to be the 15th already.</p>
<p>seriously. this waiting needs to end.</p>
<p>If it comes during the day, then Im checking my email in school no matter what the librarian says.</p>
<p>Wait, Dean Shaw's doesn't say specifically that the 25-min. essay will be considered, right? I got only a 9 on the essay but an 800 on the section...</p>
<p>how will you know when will it come though - unless you mad-dash and check your email between every class.</p>
<p>Most of my classes are near the computer lab, and the two classes that aren't, have wireless routers and laptops. I'm checking every chance I get.</p>
<p>where theres a will theres a way. haha</p>
<p>haha this is so hardcore. I told myself I needed to stop thinking about it and start expecting the worst... I told myself that I was going to boycott CC until I found out because all I've done lately is check and recheck and rerecheck the Stanford forum...
but it's not happening.</p>
<p>I know!! I was going to boycott CC until decisions come - cos I don't want to see people posting their results and then go check my email in a frenzy. I'd rather just casually check it some day and get floored at the moment. But it'll be missing a lot of the good cheer and good news. Hmmm... what should I do.</p>
<p>gee...what a dilemma</p>
<p>you can't check e-mail because the librarian will get mad? all the main e-mail sites are actually BLOCKED off our computers...but I'm pretty sure on of the teachers has bypassed it heh heh heh...:)</p>
<p>^ it's that strict? O_O. At my school the only sites that are blocked that I normally use are LJ and myspace. And ratemyteachers too, I think.</p>
<p>At my old school, the sites were all blocked off. Here I can access almost anything I want, forums, games, etc..</p>