grantortue

I've had really bad science teachers, and scored a 540 in bio, 530 in physics, and 470 in chem < got lost going to test center, came in late and frazzled.
In us hist, math, and math II i scored each in the 600's. Basically the weakest part of my app. is SATII's, will they take the 2 highest, or will they judge me by the 470? Is it enough for a rejection if everything else is great?

Timduncanbball

if you had studied, you wouldn't have gotten such crappy scores

grantortue

um... ok do you have a vendetta against me, because you are always obnoxious in your remarks. Any helpful commentary?

spiritus

Yea they take the two highest scores, but either way, your scores are way too low for the ivy league.

grantortue

one kid got into cornell with a 20 ACT, so who knows...

Timduncanbball

that kid probably had talent

Feemzi2

wow is that true

spiritus

Cornell doesn't accept people with 20s on the ACT unless they did something amazing like saving the Dalai Lama from a stray bullet.

northsouth29

idk if anyone really knows. My sat2s are pretty bad thats why im not sending them, but if you have a great app and then just bad sat2s i think they might not auto reject and maybe look past it depending on the grades you got in each class. Who knows though.

grantortue

haha, saving the Dalai Lama from a stray bullet!?!
well, they're only recommended , so I couldn't see it being a devastating auto-reject...
the top two are 640 and 610 which are bad... but not AWFUL, and the science is a 540 and that's after only a month in the class! I believe they also take the Science portion of the ACT into consideration, and I scored a 32, which is around a 720 converted SAT.

Gaffe

"one kid got into cornell with a 20 ACT, so who knows..."

Is this kid any (combination) of the following?
-Recruited athlete
-Underrepresented Minority
-First generation college student
-Low income family
-Preferential candidate
-RSI
-TASP
-International Olympiad competitor
-National/ international musician
plus other things I may have missed.

If not, I am really surprised.

yousonofatree

how would they get into TASP and RSI with a 20 ACT score?

grantortue

Idk about him... but I am URM- Hispanic, First generation, low-med. income, single parent, all-state musician, and uncompetetive major. So how does a 640 and 540 make me "very unlikely" ? They accept scores like that from caucasians! And yeah, my SATI scores do suck, I'll be the first to say it. But I tried the ACT, and that format worked better for me. A lot of people have wide ranging scores due to the different formats on each exam.

CONNMAN

Are SAT IIs required for Arts and Sciences?

Feemzi2

yeah they are. 2 in any subjects