<p>A competition for students who plan to follow a career in the healthcare professions called Health Occupations Students of America.</p>
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I'd go with the GPA, b/c that's based on demonstrated accomplishment. SATs are more suggestive of potential. But if you're allocating a valuable spot on proven excellence or potential excellence, usually, you're going to go with the demonstrable.
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<p>Okay I understand. Because I have a 4.0 GPA and I've heard so many people see my 22xx SAT score and just say, "Ouch, not very competitive..."</p>
<p>Even though I believe a 22xx to be perfectly fine as long as you have other stuff going for you.</p>
<p>haha anywaaay. That's enough ranting from me. I'll be quiet now. =)</p>
<p>Don't sweat it. You'll be fine. A 22xx vs. a 2400 will not make or break you.</p>
<p>Thanks, good to hear! =)</p>
<p>unless its a 2200!! lol jkjk</p>
<p>wats ur score, anyway?</p>
<p>2230
haha I feel so much pressure to take it a second time.
I'm thinking about going standby this December for my other schools...but nah.
That costs like $75</p>
<p>well i guess it would also depend on how ur score breaks down, as writing section supposedly gets less weight?</p>
<p>omz how did u do on the writing section?</p>
<p>also, i heard that the MATH section is more important in general than the CR section. is this true?</p>
<p>lol it was weird because usually on the practice tests, I'd get perfect or near perfect in Math and Writing, but CR would be a low-mid 700.
It was waaay different on the test.</p>
<p>M780/CR750/W700</p>
<p>So it's 1530/2230</p>
<p>Guess I'm kinda lucky that my low one was accidentally my writing. =P</p>
<p>My lowest is writing as well, which was pretty surprising because I kept scoring in the mid-600s on the math sections of practice tests, but then I managed a 760 on the actual test... so together with my 800 CR my score is 1560/2270. Sure, 2300+ would've been nice, but I'm not going to worry about it.</p>
<p>One part that makes sense is that going for an unpopular major is good, especially if you are of an ethnic group and/or gender that doesn't usually go for that subject. These colleges keep bragging about how many valedictorians and 2400-SAT eggheads they don't accept. I think a big part of it is that so many of those applicants are GUYS of similar ethnic backgrounds (and you know who you are) who want to major in pre-med/biology/chemistry/economics/engineering. Newsflash: SOMEBODY has to major in anthropology and classics. I kinda doubt that any of the 2400-SAT valedictorians who get rejected are white females who want to study philosophy or Black or Hispanic guys who want to study geology.</p>
<p>ummm I'm an Asian female who wants to study Philosophy but go Pre-med at the same time.</p>
<p>Does that count for anything? XD</p>
<p>Miss Zanna: Sounds great. I was in the philosophy field for almost 20 years and taught at 4 different colleges. Females were always a minority of the students, and while there were some females who did well grade-wise, it usually seemed like they treated it like a parlor game rather than a subject that should have an actual effect on their lives. In other words, they could study Plato's "divided line" all day--steeping themselves on the profound differences between appearance and "reality," and then go put on a pound of make-up and a push-up bra and go out with an engineering student whose photo was next to the dictionary defintion of "shallow."</p>
<p>While the textbook translation of philosophy is "love of wisdom," I used to tell my students that it could easily be "seeing past the surface"...as grasping the main concepts is almost always about reading between the lines, not getting distracted by the obvious, and connecting the dots that are not where the masses think they'd be. If you are a female who can do that sort of thing, and can avoid the temptation to specialize in "feminist philosophy," you will be loved by your [male] classmates, adored by your [male] professors, admitted to your grad school of choice, and hired as an asst. professor by the best colleges on the planet.</p>
<p>I think the thing a lot of people don't understand about college is that you can usually take classes in other departments and colleges without much hassle. So even if you're a drama major, you can take a slew of economics courses. Or, depending on the university, you can actually switch majors or "colleges" quite easily. You should have no trouble at all majoring in philosophy and fulfilling pre-med requirements.</p>
<p>In case anyone was wondering...the excerpt from the original post on this forum came from vault.com...there is other stuff like that on there too.</p>
<p>pk, I'm almost positive the critical reading section is considered the most important since statistically it is the hardest. I forget what the percentiles are on each section, but I'm pretty sure you could dig them up.</p>
<p>there are percentile weighting on SAT scores?</p>
<p>can anyone find/post this info?</p>
<p>i know from talking to adcoms that princeton looks more at the math section than the critical reading (no word on writing)...accepted students have better math scores than critical reading scores on average, and it is considered more important to do extremely well on math SAT as well as the IIc subject test than any of the other tests. (the other tests still count a lot though, but math is slightly more, she said like 60/40)</p>
<p>yesSSSSSSS!!!!!</p>
<p>yeh there are, they r on the official score reports, and i think that this is actually quite important.</p>
<p>haha yaaaay math =)</p>
<p>tourguide: is it just that there are fewer girls with a 2400 or just fewer girls overall applying to princeton?
I have a 2400 but i want to go Mol Bio like everyone else</p>