<p>I'm an international student applying RD with a 570 Verbal (800 Math). I'm retaking SAT in January. What score do I need ?</p>
<p>I'd say if your ECs/recs/essays are solid, and you get your Verbal up to about 650, then you stand a chance being an international.</p>
<p>try the act. It's more grammar which you could learn quickly. Until the new sat comes out...it will be very hard to learn all those vocab in that short of the time.</p>
<p>Also the vocab on the sat is the lamest crap in the world. I did performed poorly on the sat, both math and verbal and i am doing very well in college. Well better than my friends who made 1400+ and 30+ on the act. No one in college uses all those vocab that the sat test. In fact, many english teachers make you use a more simplified word. And math in college is not filled with all those tricky questions like the ones of the sat. Thank god they are changing it.</p>
<p>What college do you go to? True, the SAT words aren't exactly everyday ones, but they are useful depending on the situation. Also, in many cases, the SAT Verbal section can be completed by considering the "sense" of the word rather than its literal definition (which you may or may not know).</p>
<p>Tulane. I am doing better than many of my friends who have better scores than me.</p>
<p>From my admittedly narrow perspective, I would imagine SAT Verbal words coming into greater use at elite New England schools (Yale, Harvard, etc.).</p>
<p>Well, more like the freshmens. Freshmens tend to use "big", or should I say "ostentatious" words inorder to depict themselves as intelligent individuals. Are you in college yet? If you are not, when you get into the university of your choice and get a chance to meet and greet the professorsand your fellow peers, you will notice that people in college, even the top colleges, do not converse like the kids on dawson's creek.</p>
<p>Also i fail to see how having a broad vocabulary enables a person to perform better than those who fail to score as high? Yes there is a correlation, but there are many many exceptions. </p>
<p>My education at tulane is similar to elsewhere. Maybe i'm reading to much into this, but for you to imply that the top, northeastern schools have better educated individuals, is completely wrong. Just because a school is located in the south does not mean that it has no merit. </p>
<p>Also i might add that started at tulane when i was 16, and i was accepted or waitlisted at many other "top northeastern" schools: BC, NYU,and BU.</p>