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<p>No, that's wrong ... I have a friend who was rejected from Yale ED.</p>
<p>"If you get a 12 you will get a 800 in writing"</p>
<p>Ya ya i just took a NSAT with princeton n i got an 8 which equals a 600.
They said my examples where good i just needed to make it neater =( and put transitions...and something else i forget.</p>
<p>What's the NSAT?</p>
<p>On <a href="http://www.princetonreview.com%5B/url%5D">www.princetonreview.com</a>, in the first week of February, you can submit a timed-essay based on their prompt and within five days they will grade it and return it to you. It is scored from 0-12 I believe, 12 being the best. It is free and I would recommend it because they give you feedback and let you know where your weak points are.</p>
<p>or u can take the 1,000 dollar course that im in if u have the money</p>
<p>^Meh, or u could just buy a few books and study like ur life depended on it (i guess it does in a way, how ironic!)</p>
<p>My sister and I both used livegrader back in October and we scored the exact same score, with the exact same comments... and two completely different essays. I don't believe it to be really reliable, because I did livegrader twice and the second time around, I got a higher score. The first time, my essay was better.. </p>
<p>LOL, and yes, study like your life depends on it. :)</p>
<p>well that may be true of the actual SAT as well emmared becuz it depends who grades it and how many they have already done so its not much different...im sure they graded it fairly accurately considering they only have one min for the actual SATs as well</p>
<p>Hi, I am taking the princeton review class also in philadelphia, I checked my score report but I have not had class again since then (this sunday I have class). It said I had an 8 on my essay, I am really confused since I thought it was on a grid from 1-6, please clarify this for me thank you.</p>
<p>I don't think the grammar section is going to count that much for top schools. There used to be a TSWE section for the SAT, and colleges pretty much ignored that.</p>
<p>You will always have percentiles of your score. Meaning if you scored in the 99th percentile, vs. the 75th percentile on the SAT. </p>
<p>This site has excellent percentiles based on SAT scores taken before 1995. Percentiles will be the future of cross generational comparisons.</p>
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Hi, I am taking the princeton review class also in philadelphia, I checked my score report but I have not had class again since then (this sunday I have class). It said I had an 8 on my essay, I am really confused since I thought it was on a grid from 1-6, please clarify this for me thank you.
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<p>Divide your 8 by 2. So you got a 4 on your essay.</p>
<p>Two readers score your essay, and add up their scores. If one graded it a 3.5, the other must have graded it a 4.5. Usually they score the essays within .5 points of each other. So you most likely got it graded 4 by both readers.</p>
<p>should i just get an algebra 2 book and study the main topics from there.. i mean do you think that will help because i have not even taken algebra 2 yet.. im doing IB math studies.. which is like the lowest math level thats not sufficient right??</p>
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Hi, I am taking the princeton review class also in philadelphia, I checked my score report but I have not had class again since then (this sunday I have class). It said I had an 8 on my essay, I am really confused since I thought it was on a grid from 1-6, please clarify this for me thank you.
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<p>Two different people grade it, each giving you a score from 1-6, then those scores are added together (ex. you could have had a 5 & 3, 4 & 4, etc.).</p>
<p>Or you could just opt out of the hysteria and take the ACT. Once.</p>
<p>A number of kids I know of over the past three years have started an opt-out club and they are now ALL attending LACs in the top ten; Ivies; or other universities in the top 25. From just taking the ACT one time! Frees up a LOT of Saturdays and time that would have been spent filling in useless bubbles on practice tests.</p>
<p>Luckily it is only huge factory schools that are almost entirely numbers driven. The schools that matter know that everyone who applies has decent scores (over 1400, say) and so look at everything else - courses taken, recs, etc. I inteviewed for an Ivy for 15 years and I approve of this opt-out routine.</p>
<p>Couldn't agree more, nedad - I too am an Ivy interviewer and I am more and more impressed with students who break out of the lockstep, skip the SATs, and just take the ACT once. What you may not understand, though, is that there are many students on the CC boards who haven't yet done much with their lives and cling to the statistics from multiple sittings of the SATs and SAT IIs as a measurement of their worth.</p>
<p>On the other hand, those I've interviewed and given a top interview score to all got in (I'm not saying it's based on the interview, only that I am batting 1000!) and they had something ELSE to brag about besides a 1600 (or 1580 or whatever - we consider anyone in the running who has around a 1400 and don't believe the differences are that important, once at that level).</p>
<p>Kudos to anyone willing to kick the SAT drug habit!</p>
<p>I took both...and got scores that were pretty much equivalent. I don't really focus on it because I would rather go hang out than spend 20 hours studying to raise my score ten points. I have a 34/1540 and got both the second time I took the respective tests. I took them once sophomore year out of curiosity and once my junior year because I realized I needed good scores.</p>
<p>I guess I didn't really kick the habit, but I wasn't much of an addict to begin with. :D</p>
<p>People who are for the ACT are invariably from the midwest. East and west coast take the SAT. </p>
<p>Also, it is the ivy league that is guilty of using multiple sitting scores for the SAT. The UC system takes a one time sitting score. </p>
<p>Investment banking and consulting firms recruit heavily on SAT scores after graduation. Talent is still the top human commodity that makes or breaks top firms.</p>