<p>All the ivies except Cornell. The needblind aspect got me.</p>
<p>You?</p>
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<p>Check the above. The world is unfair sometimes and makes you wish you were a girl or urm. ^^</p>
<p>So, as of now, I guess my legit score is a 1920. How much would it take to get it up to at least a 2250? I seriously need at least that score because I want to apply to combined BS/MD programs and those are super competitive.</p>
<p>Couple q’s for pakalypse:
- I’m a little confused about the answer review sheet. could you give me an example or something? So, let’s say I get questio 18 wrong in math. What would I do? Just write down what I did, where my mistake was, and how to do the question correctly? tHEN do I study this sheet or something?</p>
<p>2) Does anyone know if the last 3 diagnostic PR tests are the same difficulty of an actual SAT or really close to it? And so, timing/pacing comes with more and more practice?</p>
<p>Like, I could’ve easily got perhaps 100 pts. mor JUST from not running out of time in the diagnostic test, which would’ve put me at low 2000s. Obviously, that doesn’t mean my score is really low 2000s, but at least I know that if I stop running out of time, i;d need to improve 250+ pts. to get to my goal.</p>
<p>check ur pm vigs. and…when r u taking the sat?</p>
<p>^I’m going to write in May and June. Then I will never write again, because I need to write the ACT in October of the next year along with SAT II’s. </p>
<p>Is the month and a bit enough time to go from a 1900 to 2250+? I will do so many tests a day if I have to, I could care less. This is all my focus is on right now. If anyone else wants to PM me any really helpful resources or anything that’s great.</p>
<p>It’s a pattern based test. Do a few Blue Book tests. Figure out the pattern in the questions (the type of questions). The questions don’t change much. It’ll take a month to master the test. Not 3. Use your time to volunteer or something.</p>
<p>I’m kinda confused. When you say patterns in the questions, like are they really that evident? I mean, I notice some patterns (how in Writing, they put put in commas to try to get you mixed up about the subject and they will change the verb and you need to correct it…or how they will sometimes not use parallelism discretely and such), but how/when do you start noticing EVERYTHING?</p>
<p>Can you give me some examples of other patterns to kind of understand what you mean? Like what do you mean by the types of questions? Is it like what I previously mentioned? </p>
<p>And I play travel baseball, so I have such a busy schedule, so I really don’t have a lot of time left, even though it would seem like I do. Starting next month, I will have baseball about 4 days a week, if not more.</p>
<p>Also, does the ACT take long to prep for (to get 34+)? Any clue…?</p>
<p>Yes I meant like those type of patterns. Reading will always have questions about something like the tone in sentence whatever etc. It’s been a while since I did anything SAT related so I forgot most of them.</p>
<p>Don’t do the ACT if you do well on the SAT. Seriously. It’s just another standardized test. If you score 2250+, go use that time you would’ve spent on the ACT on volunteering, research or other ECs. Those activities will help your app much more than another score that isn’t needed.</p>
<p>Hey guys! Seeing how I’m still a junior, posting in this thread may be a tad premature, but I’m a Chinese female and Canadian citizen who currently attends a small, private college prep school in Michigan. 
Nice to meet you all!</p>
<p>^Hey fledgling. Actually, I am a junior too, but everyone on here is so helpful so I ask them for advice and help.</p>
<p>@darksoulz, I was not planning on taking the ACT, but apparently (after talking to a family friend who was accepted to a few BS/MD combined programs, but eventually chose Wayne State MedStart for the full ride), the ACT is almost a requirement (not stated directly, but pretty much is he said) for MedStart. He also said that ACT takes way less time to prep for and isn’t as hard as the SAT to keep improving your score on. But I have no clue what exactly “not as long to prep for” meant when he said that.</p>
<p>So, guys, is the best way to prep just a ton of practice tests? Or should I be going through books like Barrons 2400? Or is it a mix of both? Do you think its possible to go from low 1900s to 2250+ before the May 5th SAT (i think its may 5th or may 6th)?</p>
<p>Use official practice tests only. (I only used the two BBs). They’ll help you the most as they’re the most accurate tests you’ll find. </p>
<p>If you don’t read much, you might want a vocabulary book (direct hits is the best I think). The grammar rules can be found on the sparknotes site.</p>
<p>@fledging. Hello to you too.</p>
<p>^To get a legit. idea of my score I should use BB right? But what if I just need to improve, would any test suffice? My vocab. has come a long way…used to be able to get maybe 3 right in a SC section, but now, I can sometimes get 7 or 8…usually I am pretty confident about the 6 out of the 8.</p>
<p>It’s the passages that kinda screw me over. I mean, some q’s seem like multiple answers would work and time is really the major issue. If time were not an issue, I wouldn’t see how I’d get more than one wrong in any passage section at all.</p>
<p>Thanks for the welcome everyone! When the Canadian class of 2010 graduates, it’ll be up to the next batch of folks (namely, myself and ViggyRam) to keep this thread going, so I figured I might just as well drop in now lol. And yes, your best bet to preparing for the SAT is always the Blue Book. 
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<p>Which schools are you guys applying to as safeties? Since I’m a Canadian citizen, would it be a little presumptuous to assume that schools such as UBC and U of Toronto would serve as my safeties? I honestly don’t know the rates of admission for either school, or even Canadian universities in general…</p>
<p>it really depends on how confident you are in getting into w/e school u applied to in the us. </p>
<p>For me, i got accepted to u of alberta in december. during that time, i was fine with going to ua if getting rejected by all my us schools. in late feb though, i applied to ut and waterloo to kind of eleviate the drop in standards should i get rejected by schools in the us. </p>
<p>turned out, i got my likely letter to columbia university the day after i applied to ut and waterloo…if they sent the letter to me a day earlier, i wouldve saved myself 300 bucks…</p>
<p>^lmao, that sucks. Yea, I think I’m going to apply to McMaster Health Sci. and Western Bio-Med and that’s it for Canadian schools. UToronto seems too competitive, with their GPA bell curves and whatnot, to be a premed there. Western and Mac definitely fit what I would look for in a university.</p>
<p>You’re required to apply to a minimum of 3 Ontario schools (if you’re from Ontario). You pay a flat fee to OUAC and they give you 3 programs to apply to ($38 for every other program after your 3). Apply to another safety. Health Sci is a reach for anyone. No stat will guarantee you a spot; a previous graduate with a 97% top 6 got rejected from Health Sci.</p>
<p>Remember you might want to be premed now, but in 3-4 years, you’ll probably change your decision. Health Sci may be a “premed program”, but they don’t like it if you say you want to be a doctor on your application. It makes it seem that you’re too focused on just that one objective… Hence that’s why you have people going to law school after Health Sci too.</p>
<p>Oh, I see. On the other hand, U of Toronto doesn’t seem like such a bad choice in my case; it won’t nearly be as competitive, seeing how my intended major’s Political Science, with a possible minor in German. Would it, along with UBC, serve as a good safety school for me? To put things in context, I have a 3.8 unweighted from freshman and sophomore years (taking the toughest courses available) and currently a 2290 SAT (700 CR, 800 M, 790 W)…</p>
<p>^yea, if I were to be anything other than premed, UToronto would be a top choice. </p>
<p>@darksoulz, for me its med school or bust, but yea, i wouldn’t but on my app. “i wanna be a doc, that’s why health sci is for me or anything”. I would apply to Mac regardless and health sci is a logical choice. And what’s the flat fee for the 3 programs? If its expensive I might not even apply to canadian schools.</p>
<p>You still have 4 years to go. You’re most likely to find something else; keep an open mind during your uni days (it’ll make it more fun).</p>
<p>The flat fee is like $140 (maybe a couple dollars less). So it’s not bad. If you’re set on Mac, use your 3rd choice for Mac life sci. </p>
<p>I would consider UT to be a safety (just by the fact they accept so many). I don’t now if they’ll consider you as an international or domestic. I applied as an Ontario student and none of my Canadian schools (except McGill) took in consideration SATs.</p>
<p>^ Ah, thanks. My case IS pretty special, but I’m quite sure I’d be considered as part of the domestic pool, since I still have Canadian citizenship (kind of like American students studying at high schools overseas, yet with U.S. passports). Does U of T really accept “so many”? They don’t post acceptance rates on their website…</p>