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Posted on 03-19-10 02:15:14 AM Link | Quote
Took mine in either 1997 or 1998. Don't remember much. I don't even remember my score. All I know is that after it was done, I had to go straight to work.

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Posted on 03-19-10 02:56:07 AM Link | Quote
It's an enigma
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I took them twice, and then took 3 SAT II's in addition to that.

Got a 2130 overall if I remember... 790 on math :| (arrrrrgh!)

Though I took both math SATII's and got 760s, and a 730 on the Chem SATII

I'm happy with my scores at least

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Posted on 03-19-10 03:43:27 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by BlackNemesis13
Originally posted by Kironide
I need a high SAT score so I can get many scholarships for college, since I don't have much money to pay tuition with.

Yeah good luck with that. I got high ACT scores, high SAT scores, a ton of academic awards, straight As, and ranked 3rd in my class. That stuff don't mean shit to scholarships unless you are also valedictorian and have a ton of extracurricular activities. I'm paying my own fucking way and it sucks. The only thing the ACT/SAT scores seem to matter for is getting accepted into the college you want. If you don't practically get a perfect score, say goodbye to Harvard. Other than that, you're pretty much getting into wherever you want unless you do absolutely horrible.

I feel for ya, but there are tens of thousands of students (valedictorians even) with good grades, (near-) perfect ACT/SAT scores, extracurriculars, awards and the whole rigmarole, and elite schools like Harvard--or even some of the better state schools like Berkeley, UCSD and UCLA--have an obligation to admit a diverse and talented student base. It's not surprising then that they don't go by a standardized test which serves mostly as a filter to help thin out applications, rather than choose exceptional candidates (after all it only really requires the most basic math and English to ace). Some of the AP/IB awards are more prestigious than getting valedictorian at most high schools. On the other hand, many upper-tier Olympiad participants, precocious researchers and other truly exceptional applicants do not have a hard time getting into these schools--and the good thing about going this route is that once you're in, you're in, regardless of financial background. Otherwise, students have to go through the baptism of fire that is scholarship hunting before they become intimately acquainted with the importance of excelling at grant proposal writing in academia.

Or, y'know, you could go to a state school, complete your FAFSA and maybe get a part-time job?

@OP: If you're aiming for graduate school, as long as you have lots of research/lab experience, stellar grades & progress in your major as well as a burning desire to do research even if it means living on the barest of living conditions, then you too can be an underpaid TA tasked with teaching ingrates of undergrads, doing your advisor's bidding and slaving away thankless hours in the lab--all for getting your name at the bottom of the author list on a journal paper no one will ever care about!
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Posted on 03-19-10 07:26:39 AM Link | Quote
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Posted on 03-19-10 06:20:27 PM (last edited by TheGreatGuy at 03-19-10 03:20 PM) Link | Quote
Just took it for the second and final time this past December(would've been November but I killed my leg and was on prescription painkillers that day so yeaaah no), I'll post the combination of my best scores, since that's what pretty much every school says they consider:

770-Reading 750-Math 680-Writing = 2200 / 2400 (1520/1600, stupid writing section)

I dunno about colleges not caring about them for money, since I've gotten a decent amount offered from most schools I applied to, and I don't do much extracurricular blah(Just Cross-country and ACSL), and certainly not Valedictorian(rank 16 is good enough...).

Then again it's not as if I applied to Harvard/MIT/Yale or something crazy because I knew I'd get no money from them and holy hell expensive.

As a side note, SAT II's, I did them too, just Math II(680) and Physics(660). I did not study enough for either of them.

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