My name’s Jessamine (though a lot of people call me Sam)
I’m a Junior in high school with a GPA of 3.2.
I haven’t taken the ACT or SAT. I am taking them both next year.
I’ve had maybe one or two tardies during my highschool years.
My freshmen year I was in volleyball.
My sophomore year I was in TAB which is a club where we read books, study, and do fun activities at the library.
I’ve never had detention, ISS, OSS or gotten in trouble in any way.
I don’t miss very many days of school either.
What are my chances of going to FSU?
I highly recommend that you take the SAT and/or ACT this year (junior year, fall semester). At the very least, it will give you a starting point to work off of and improve upon. Best case would be that you get an outstanding score and don’t need to worry about taking either again. FSU makes their admission stats pretty easy to find, so you’ll want to target an SAT or ACT score that is higher than the mid 50% range in order to have a really good chance of acceptance. According to their website, that would mean scoring higher than 1360 on the SAT or 31 on the ACT.
Your GPA sounds low, but you don’t indicate whether or not you’re referring to a weighted or unweighted GPA. If you’ve taken a lot of honors or AP courses, your weighted GPA may be significantly higher. FSU has their own method of calculating a GPA that takes into account honors, AP, DE, IB courses and does not normally include electives. You should check with your guidance counselor to get an idea of what FSU would consider your GPA to be. FSU’s mid 50% GPA range for this year’s freshman class is 4.0-4.5. If you get straight A’s this year, and assuming you have some honors and AP courses in the mix, you should be able to get your GPA into that range.
If I take the SAT and ACT this fall and I fail, when is the next time I can take it? Also how many times can I fail and take it? I took a lot of my AP classes during my freshmen year. Since Im going for the Academic Honors instead of the Core 40, Ive been taking my classes. Im pretty sure I only have one or two more AP classes to take and I will take them next year.
There’s no limit to the number of times you can take the SAT or ACT. There’s also no such thing as failing either of these. You get a score, the higher score the better, but there’s no such thing as a failing score. Also, most colleges will “superscore” the SAT results, so taking the test a few times will only help you. Superscoring is when they take your highest Math score and highest English score out of all the times you took the test to get a “superscore” that is generally higher than any individual test score. If you only take the SAT once, you won’t be able to benefit from this. Some schools also superscore the ACT, but that’s less common due to the way the ACT develops their “composite” score.
Google SAT and ACT dates. They are generally offered at least once per month, although not every testing location (such as your high school) offers the test on each date. You may need to take the test at another location, which is absolutely fine. Just review the registration deadlines, locations, fees (and how to get fee waivers if your family income is low enough to qualify) and ID requirements.
https://www.collegeboard.org
https://www.act.org
FSU considers the rigor of the classes that you take compared to what classes are available at your school. If your school only offers a few AP classes, you should be okay provided that you’re taking honors courses when available.
They do not care whether you missed school,and dont take the sat/act more than 3 times
@Kingly71 What’s your reasoning behind not taking the SAT/ACT more than 3 times?
Well it advised that if you take both Sat and ACT 3 times you wont approved also it looks negative if you are improving by very little or if you didn’t approve at all I think after the 4th time. @shortnuke at least that what people tell me …
What if I take it more than three times and improve a lot each time? @Kingly71
Then you should check with each college for FSU you should be fine
FSU superscores - prep prep and prep and then test away to hit your goal.
The reality is that you’re unlikely to make significant improvements each time. If you do some major prep work it’s definitely possible to make significant improvements, but you reach a point of diminishing returns where hours of additional test practice make little to no difference on your test scores. I think this is really why a lot of experts recommend not taking the tests more than 3-4 times.
If you’ve put in the time prepping for the SAT/ACT, then after you’ve taken the tests you’re probably better off devoting time to your application essays and to maintaining your GPA.
Alright. I take two online classes to prepare for the SAT and the ACT. My teachers recommended taking them both at the end of my junior year so i have time to do it again in the fall if i dont like my score.
