<p>How much do yall think I’ll get in terms of merit scholarships with these stats?
AZN male from MA</p>
<p>GPA: 3.74 weighted ,not sure how to convert to unweighted, but i have about B+/A- in all honors classes and B+/B in AP classes. I took the most rigorous classes my school offers (combination of honors and APs)</p>
<p>APs: APUSH (4), Bio(3), Statistics(5) this yr (psychology, chemistry, calc AB senior year)</p>
<p>I plan to write about my language barrier for my long essay</p>
<p>Amazing Teacher Recs</p>
<p>EC: Varsity Track and Field (10-12)
Varsity Cross Country (11-12)
Freshmen Football
Church Missions Trips to Boston and Costa Rica (summer 06-08)
150 + hours of community service
Teaching assistant at Chinese School for first graders
Working at a communications company this summer as an administrative assistant, I work full time, as in 40 hour weeks</p>
<p>try to boost that SAT I into the 2100-2200 range, and i think you have a pretty good chance at the dean's scholarship. i had a 3.9 weighted and 2200 sat's and received the 10k in merit.</p>
<p>it's not that BU doesn't look at the writing score, it's that they look at it separately like when it used to be separate tests. That way it's easier to evaluate the scores.</p>
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No, they just don't look at it at all. They've done several studies proving that the Writing section of the SAT means absolutely nothing.
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<p>Proof? In some ways, the essay on the SAT is more beneficial than the actually common app essay that you turn in as part of your applications. College don't know how many times the common app essay has been passed around from parent to friend to tutor to teacher, and doesn't know how many times it has been edited to add superb vocabulary and such. You have months to write the essay, where it should be in fact come out as a polished piece of writing. But the SAT essay shows if you can actually write a 4/5 paragraph essay that is logically ordered with a general statement, thesis, and structure statement. Not only that, but also coherent ideas, and smooth transitions.</p>
<p>You can't write a good essay in 25 minutes. It's as simple as that. BU makes you take their writing assessment at orientation, and the scores received on it have almost no correlation to scores received on the SAT essay.</p>
<p>Who said anything about a good essay? Do you know how many people don't know how to write a standard essay? I mean, honestly, if you can write an essay that has an arguable thesis, general statement, structure statement, legitimate ideas, topic sentences and such, then you can consider yourself high up there in terms of writing. </p>
<p>The SAT essay doesn't ask for much, just the basics of what argumentative essay should be like. And the truth is that many people just do not know what those are.</p>
<p>What I am saying that is that the SAT essay tests you on the basic, standard analytical, argumentative thesis essay. This essay is something that people should have been doing countless times during their highschool years, and will do for a countless amount of times in their college years. If someone did terrible on the SAT essay, then wouldn't it prove that they could not write well? And if a person did well on the SAT essay, wouldn't it prove that they could write well because they knew how to write a standard organized essay?</p>
<p>I agree. Any essay can be improved through many rewrites, spelling checks, grammar checks, and other people looking at it. But being able to form the outline of a coherent, complete, argument, within a reasonable period of time is the cornerstone of good writing. And the SAT essay DOES test that ability.</p>