What's my chances of getting accepted into Howard University?

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<p>For a scholarship you will at least need to have an 1170 CR+M or be ranked number 1 or 2 in your class, but I have faith that you can do it lol…and as for a tip for the SAT, READ READ READ. </p>

<p>I know that everyone tells you that, but you won’t realize how true it is until you get your results back. I saw an interview about the SAT and the guy who works for ETS said that the easiest part of the SAT to improve on is reading and the hardest is writing (seems like it should be the other way around lol) he said that the reason people don’t do better is because they do not read enough; he said reading a full magazine or even a few pamphlets a week can improve your score by 50 points…50! </p>

<p>Of course however, I didn’t take the advice and my reading score from my first SAT to my second only went up 20 points, but then I followed the advice and within a MONTH my score went up 70 points from my second test (that was with the help of some classes here and there too lol)</p>

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<p>I hate reading! I’m taking Kaplan classes though. So I hope they get my score to at least a 1700?</p>

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<p>.@908kiddo, so you increased your score by just reading in general more? How’d you increase your other scores?</p>

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<p>@court922</p>

<p>well I read more and I went to a “The Princeton Review” class and that helped my increase my scores, for they reading they taught me some tips like looking for trigger words in the sentence completion, which technique to use on the passages and things of that nature…with the math I increased my score by practicing geometry and thinking more logically aka reasoning…to me thats all the math section is, geometry and reasoning. as for the writing, I was always good in it, so I didn’t need much practice (not to sound big-headed lol) but with the essay, my instructor told me to use two examples, one from the past and one current, and state the two examples in the first paragraph, then the two paragraphs with the examples, then a conclusion, she noted that the conclusion is the most important part of the essay…thats about it lol</p>

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<p>Oh Okay Thanks because when i took mine the first time, my reading was the lowest and writing the highest and i used 5 paragraphs instead of 4 i think. IM going to try this strategy next week for my ACT , thanks!</p>

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<p>have you taken the ACT before?</p>

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<p>No , just the SAT. Is it different?</p>

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<p>Don’t read this if you’re easily discouraged lol </p>

<p>but yeah, its different. I thought that the ACT was going to be easier from what I had researched and after the first time I took it I thought it was. </p>

<p>The English section was a whole bunch of passages (I think 5) and the test asked us to find the errors in the sentences, sounds easy right? Bad thing is that you only get like 45 minutes to answer 75 questions. I thought I was going at super speed (like super-sonic speed lol) and I finished, but at the last second, after the teacher said put your pencils down. </p>

<p>The math was terrible for me, its 60 questions in 60 minutes and math isn’t my forte, I don’t think it was as hard as I made it out to be, but the SAT math is definitely easier to me. The ACT math had questions on it that I thought would never resurface in my life, too bad it did lol, there are a lot of polynomial/factoring/square root/intermediate geometry on there…and there’s 4 trig problems, so prepare for that</p>

<p>The reading was pretty much the SAT reading, but I think that the SAT is more organized as for the logistics of it. The ACT reading was just passage after passage, and with the time that they gave you (I think it was 35 questions in 45 minutes or the other way around, 4 or 5 passages) and that calls for like, rush reading. I couldn’t really digest everything in that short of a time. Trying to read that fast made me have to refer back to the passage to answer the question and from what I remember, the ACT scorned that.</p>

<p>The science was iffy, its all reasoning, but I mean, it’s like reasoning 2.0, they throw tons of information at you and you have to nitpick the good information and then answer the question and I think the question/time for that was 40 questions in 35 minutes, the time was horrrrrible…A tip that I read was to avoid reading the passages that the section provided; that worked a bit.</p>

<p>As you can see, the problem with me regarding the ACT was the time…If you got more time on the ACT everyone would probably score three to four points higher. And after taking the ACT twice and the SAT three times, the SAT is definitely more manageable and easy flowing…</p>

<p>According to the conversion sites, my SAT to ACT score was 4 points better than I got on the actual ACT, that says a lot lol</p>

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<p>Well, I’m glad you told me because now i know how to handle it , but it won’t be THAT big of deal for me because my school is paying for all juniors to take it during school. I don’t even want to take the ACT. I feel like the SAT is better because you can send your scores seperately but with the ACT colleges only take it as a whole, not what you got in each section which sucks and makes the whole thing pointless.</p>

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<p>you’ll be fine. i’m graduating hu now. this may. just on this site because i was looking at info for grad school/ law schools. high school i had a 3.6 and cr + m = 1170 SAT , writing was 630 on top of that. got into hu. called them to ask about money. and they gave me tuition and fees. my fr. roomie grad high school with a 2.5 , and low SAT scores. don’t stress. just call!!! i didnt apply until feb, but applying early also helps</p>