<p>hell no i don’t expect to get in, I mean my scores are good, GPA is good, and rank is fine, but i’d be damn surprised if I got in… because I’m realistic</p>
<p>and you might be living a happier life right now but what happens when you don’t get into the school you expected to get into? be more humble :)</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d be so content with a 2240.</p>
<p>But then again, it’s all relative.
Everyone in my school is really annoyed at me because I’m retaking a 1980.</p>
<p>someone would complain because:
<p>lol do u know how cocky the little twits at HYP are???</p>
<p>I don’t think I lack self confidence but Harvard acceptance rate is 8% and about 30000 students get higher scores on the SAT than mine, every year. I guess it’s also kind of a technique to prevent disappointment.</p>
<p>well either way, if you’re rejected, you’re rejected
so of course it’s better to be rejected with an attitude of “harvard made the biggest mistake by not accepting me and i’m better than all the kids at harvard”
than “i fail at life and will never get into a good college”</p>
<p>Obviously, most of you retake the test because you’re either insecure or it’s not high enough in your opinion.</p>
<p>But, I would like to say this if you score over a 1900 and you think that’s crappy you need a reality check and if you feel the need to retake the SAT when you got a 2200 you really wasted your time because they will highly consider you anywhere you go.</p>
<p>not if u wanna go to the ivies…: /</p>
<p>i think.</p>
<p>ivies= 2250+ then you have every right to be cocky</p>
<p>I think I wouldn’t consider retaking 2250-2230 if I were applying to ivies. 2300+ definitely not, but my current score, 2140, is definitely not enough for HYPS.</p>
<p>Stop worrying about HYPS. Jesus…</p>
<p>Of course your life would be different if you go to HYPS than a school like any other school, but still if you really dig down deep and think what the whole end goal of life is…</p>
<p>it really is to have a happy/sucessful/influence the world type life. </p>
<p>Of course that’s hard to do without money (although I’m sure there are SOME people who are happy despite their finacial status), and money is hard to get if you don’t have a job (although I’m sure there are SOME people who get can get “tha chedda” mad easily), and a job is hard to get if you don’t get a good education/get into a decent college (although I’m sure there are SOME people who have a good job without a good college/education), and a good edcuation/college is hard to get in unless you have a good SAT score.</p>
<p>Which is ghey.</p>
<p>But really, if you think about it, how many kids out of HYPS have a HAPPY life? Although they may be rich, I bet I could find more kids HAPPY from like a Providence even though they are making less money.</p>
<p>This post is suppose to be half-serious.</p>
<p>Don’t poop on me guys.</p>
<p>haha. So it still comes down to earning high SAT scores.</p>
<p>^Mmm, I wish. But in reality, I don’t think so. </p>
<p>I got a 2300 on the SAT, which SHOULD give me a right to be cocky about my dream school, Yale. However my GPA is 3.5 (unweighted). Which makes my chances of getting in increeeeeedibly slim. So it’s definitely not all about your SAT score.</p>
<p>So, speaking as someone who got exactly 2240 who has been upset about her score I think I should explain why some of us are upset.</p>
<p>On the June SAT I got 800 W, 730 CR, and 710 M</p>
<p>While these are all fine scores (reached my goals for both math and writing; I’m actually so happy about math, I had gotten a straight up 600 on both the psat and the one practice test I took), I am going to be an English major; I accelerated English at my school (something no junior unless they plan on graduating in 3 years has ever done) and received the highest grades in my class the entire year. I also received an 80 on my psat for CR. Clearly I am a proficient reader and I must have a substantial vocabulary if I have been getting A’s all year in a difficult class. I also got an 800 on the Lit SAT, which is similar to CR except (In my opinion and that of most people) much, much harder. Thus, getting a 730 is really below par for me personally. Everyone is different. Also, I am applying ED to Brown and have my heart set on it (not because of the Ivy label but because of their curriculum structure and their strengths in certain humanities departments)… while a 730 may be really good for a lot of people and I don’t deny that it’s a fine grade, it’s clearly very much below par with my normal work. That is the only reason I’m upset. And I’m ecstatic about my math one, really, truly.</p>
<p>SORRY THAT WAS AN ESSAY AND I SOUND POMPOUS I DON’T MEAN TO BEEE</p>
<p>^ same here, i feel disappointed with a 2270, uugghhh, i got a 720 in CR btw, and i KNOW i could have gotten better (all my practice tests, i got a 750-770 in CR). its the expectation i set for myself. i expected a 2300 plus, i didnt get it, and now today is officially the worst f***** day in my life. i didnt stay up all night just to see a f****** 2270 on the d*** computer screen. ■■■.</p>
<p>This board is filled with losers. I haven’t studied one second for my 2 SAT’s (just walked in and took them). Have a 2050 superscored. That’s fine with me. I don’t want to waste my college career studying at some Ivy when I can enjoy life at a public honors college. PLus, I plan on going to law school so undergrad is rather unimportant.</p>
<p>aspiringfor2400, oh please. </p>
<p>I don’t want to be mean or anything or come at you wrong, but really?</p>
<p>I don’t think it is the worst ****in day in your life.</p>
<p>I hate how people are like “OMG 2240 my life is over. no ivy league means my life is going to suckk…oh no”</p>
<p>Really? SAT are wayyyy overrated, its almost pointless.</p>
<p>Wow, crying because he got a 2270… 99.9% of high school students would kill for that score (figuratively)</p>
<p>If people don’t want - badly want - to get a 2400 or get into HYP, that’s fine. Not everyone has to. But they shouldn’t go round dissing everyone who does; frankly, that comes off as VERY sour-grapes.</p>
<p>People have the right to their own goals and aspirations. End of.</p>
<p>Yes, but you realize it could be worse right?</p>
<p>If you think getting a 2270 is the worst day of your life, how do you feel when someone else checked their score and it was a 1480/2400 (granted I didn’t get that, but im using it as an example).</p>
<p>Of course we all have different goals/aspirations, but you don’t need to tell everybody that you feel like a failure because you got what 95% of kids would say as amazing.</p>
<p>that seems like…idk, i can’t find the right word right now.</p>