<p>1st class -- jruzzy (2300)</p>
<p>hopefully 2nd class (2400) soon :D</p>
<p>If you don't mind I'm going to start the 'less than 2300 club who still got into really selective first choice colleges'</p>
<p>great scores should make you proud, but don't flaunt it. after all, SAT's aren't everything...</p>
<p>Why in the world would we mind, and why in the world should we not flaunt it? I also must have missed the part of my club's charter that said SATs were everything. Inferiority complex perhaps?</p>
<p>LOL, I do have a 2300+ score, so it's not cause I'm "jealous" of yours. Hahahaha...</p>
<p>Predator, why lie? People with 2300s don't make threads about getting their scores up. ;) You should remember that thread. You posted in it yesterday.</p>
<p>1st class-- Physics08 (2390, Used to be 2350 Before Dec 2)</p>
<p>Congratulations :) SAT scores really are so very important....scores above 2300 really symbolize genius...I really am very thankful that there is such an abundance of bright people who realise their importance and significance...</p>
<p>wow guys really impressive!!! im so freakin mad, i only got a 2130 on MY sat!! hahahaha i know, right? well maybe ill study really hard so i can be as smart and cool as all you guys and improve my chances to getting into a top school, cause thats what this all about right?</p>
<p>or wait maybe i wont, since i was already accepted to an ivy league school. </p>
<p>haha yeah that sounds elitist, but look at this whole thread--have fun bragging about your sat scores online, ill be enjoying my whole second semester!!</p>
<p>^Ooh, I love your blazing maturity. I've said it millions of times--all we do is post scores in a thread no one has to read. But you all just keep insisting . . .</p>
<p>btw: You're right! Every single one of us will get rejected from ALL our colleges! We'll never get into the colleges we want! We suck at life!</p>
<p>Is that what you wanted to hear?</p>
<p>Murasaki's last rant</p>
<p>Alright, I usually hate coming back to this forum, but I only know about it because my e-mail updates me on all topics I've posted in. I also hate long rants, I haven't done one in a while. But this is my last and final time.</p>
<p>Stop complaining about the thread. None of us claim that 2300 makes us better or smarter people. We don't claim it makes us more successful, or more likely to get into better colleges. We don't even brag about it. All it is is posting of a name in a thread. No one has to read it, but you all insist on coming here and showing how half-witted you are. This is the last time I'm going to post or say this. You all can call us 'nerds with no life' or 'idiot braggers' or whatever helps you sleep at night, but the point is, we're just high-school kids like any of you, and we posted our names here.</p>
<p>In short?</p>
<p>Stop coming to this thread if you disapprove of it.</p>
<p>Stop wasting bandwidth insulting us when more than half of us don't even see this thread anymore.</p>
<p>Stop stroking your own egos by talking about how 'great' your lives are.</p>
<p>Stop acting like you don't come to this thread of your own free will.</p>
<p>And most importantly . . . </p>
<p>Stop being indignant.</p>
<p>Peace, I'm through with this.</p>
<p>Anyone have any tips? I'd like to score highly, but am not sure where to start, other than to go through many old SATs.</p>
<p>koolcrud, if you look at my thread correctly, it states that I have a low 70 verbal score, 80 math, and high 70 writing score. If you want my exact scores, I got a 800-M, 780-W, 730-V. Are you happy? My point was to bring up my 730-V up to rank with the rest of my sections.</p>
<p>Koolcrud, unfortunately for you, I am not like half the people on this board who gain "satisfaction" from cyber bragging? I doubt half of you could actually talk your ass out of anything.</p>
<p>The best tip for boosting critical reading scores, and it works well for the writing section too, is to READ, READ, READ, and READ. I grew up in the day when my region of the country didn't have any test prep businesses, and no one really thought about preparing for the SAT I other than doing the one practice test that you get after you register. But we had students in our high school graduating class he got scores that "recenter" to 800 because some of us loved to read, and enjoyed reading books and magazines of our own choosing. Anyone can still do the same today, to the same result.</p>
<p>hey everybody...add me if ya want: 2400 second class, or 2350 first class (damn writing section!)...anyway, for those of you who want tips:
--take Latin! (a little late, maybe, but totally true)
--Collegeboard's practice tests
--if you're in advanced math--calc/pre-calc, do some practice...even if you rock at math, you're probly out of practice on the basics
--prep courses=waste of your life. though i never took one, so i'm a bit biased.</p>
<p>seriously, just be familiar with the test and the material, and you'll do fine. honest.</p>
<p>"many" old SATs won't help you too much...the test has changed a fair amount, and if you take too many, you'll anticipate questions--wrongly. i'd say do 4-5 out of the collegeboard book MAX...the book is good, and the score calculator is quite a nice feature.</p>
<p>for vocab boosting--number2.com</p>
<p>EDIT: not even worth it haha</p>
<p>lets make a facebook group for the "uber exclusive 2300 club"</p>
<p>2320 first & last time.</p>
<p>edit: my post count is 666</p>
<p>For vocabulary I recommend Renee Mazer's Not Too Scary Vocabulary tapes. Excellent tapes, very hilarious, helped a lot. (Latin helps too.) For the reading comprehension parts just take the highest English classes in your school and you should do okay.</p>
<p>For math it helps to be...good at math, especially at mental calculation and whatnot. Just be really fast, and don't use your calculator often (silly mistakes + waste of time). It helps if you can go fast enough to do every problem twice, preferably in different ways (or at least every hard problem). Once you get above 650 or so your SAT score really comes down to the difference between getting one question and two questions wrong, so accuracy is of the utmost importance.</p>
<p>For writing you should probably focus much more on grammar than on the essay (I got an 80 on grammar and a 9 on the essay and still got an 800). The grammar is pretty straightforward if you go to one of those test-prep books and learn all the rules. Or if you just have good intuition.</p>
<p>there's this kid named decarlo at my school, and he scored a 2400 by drawing symbols relevant to mid twentieth century germany on the answer sheet</p>
<p>I would like to second the avoidance of calculators. They can really slow you down and most SAT math problems can be dealt with mentally if you approach them correctly.</p>