<p>I am wondering if my relatively low Regents scores will jeopardize my admissions to an Ivy League College. Also, is it true that Cornell, Columbia or NYU admission officers take a look at your Regents scores and factor them on admitting you? Obviously, SAT Subject Tests as well as AP Exams are much more important than Regents. </p>
<p>Scenario: Say your SAT's are roughly around 2100, a 4.0 (weighted average) (Top 20 rank in your graduating class), 2-3 SAT Subject Tests with scores 680-710, 4 AP Exams with 4's and 3's, Student Body President, captain of a sports team, Manhattan District Attorney Internship, hundreds of hours of community service, members of various clubs. However, you have low Regents scores that consist of (85, 67, 93, 80, etc). Will those poor Regents stand out to the admission officers? Thank you for the advice.</p>
<p>Regents exams are standardized tests meant to serve an evaluative purpose (in lieu of the traditional final exam in some cases). A 4.0 GPA, weighted or no, would make it seem as if there were grade inflation at your school. If your Regents exams are factored into your grade, how did you manage to get such a high GPA with such low scores? If they arenāt, it still doesnāt look good.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Eh, I dunno if Iām the most qualified person to answer this question, but Iāll take a stab at it anyway.</p>
<p>Perhaps they will. Thereās no way those Regents scores will help.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response ksarmand. Many have told me that itās most important that you āpassā the Regents meaning (65+) instead of worrying about them because you have other tests that are more vital to study for. </p>
<p>To answer your question, my school does not average in your Regents score as your final grade. That is why my GPA is so high and I am a better student than a ātest-takerā you can say. </p>
<p>But it is true that colleges out of the New York area do not consider your Regents scores simply because other states do not take a standardized exam like this and they are not so familiar with it?</p>
<p>BTW, besides for the 67, those regents scores are not low. My scores so far are: 84,86,87,98 and 73. Some of the tests it is okay to get below an 80 (about a B) like physics and chemistry, which are hard and have a very stingy curve.</p>
<p>If you are applying for a major in the Humanities, having a 60 on your physics regent should not hurt you, same for history regents in the sciences and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>I am not talking about raw score, no one looks at raw score, and no college admissions officer is such a wanker to reconvert your scaled score back to a raw score (which is not really fair based on that the test are never out of 100, but out of 85 or 86).</p>
<p>I am talking about if you apply for a degree in history or philosophy and you have a 3.6+ GPA (which is basically NYUās type. You canāt go far down my family tree without hitting three NYU alumni), it should not hurt you that you failed a regent that most people fail anyway, and one that has nothing to do with what you want to major in. I am not saying they smile at the fact, but if your admissions decision is a nail-biter, it isnāt because of that.</p>
<p>I agree with you. A 3.6+ is always competitive, the grade in the physics class is more important than the regents score.</p>
<p>I just live by the idea that if youāre going to do something, do it well. In my NY HS you didnt need to take physics or the physics regents to graduate, so no one forced you to take the class, and if you wanted phil or history you could have taken that class.</p>
<p>I thought the scaled score was the one that got curved- the raw score is never seen by anyone but the graders.</p>
<p>You can go to NYSās website and get the conversion chart, that way you can reconvert. The sad thing is, this ācurveā is not a real curve at all. It is determined before you even take the test.</p>
<p>Iām afraid Iāll have to disagree. Iām not inclined toward the sciences, yet my lowest grade on a science Regents was a 97% - and I took both physics and chemistry. Math, on the other hand, was a bit rougher, but I did not receive any scores outside of the A range. </p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I donāt believe your standardized test scores will be ignored. As to how much weight will be given to them in the admissions process, I canāt say.</p>