1100 SAT score

krndandaman
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:34:10 +0000

What can you do with this SAT score to go to a college that’s not community college? My friend is seriously panicking right now as this is his SAT score (first try) and he feels like he can’t go to college.

He’s an international student who’s been here since 10th grade but his English skills are quite bad to be honest. He’s only surrounded himself with other koreans so he hasn’t improved much. His GPA is also low at around 3.0 W and 2.x UW. No honors or AP’s. And he’s not a serious athlete.

He’s asked me to tutor him for the SAT but I really don’t know what to do when he has no foundation for English at all. I can definitely help him get his math score up but reading and writing I have no idea…

His score breakdown:
600 Math
250 CR
250 Writing 4 Essay

He’s been quite unmotivated about school until now. His last semester of junior year he’d stay up every night studying and he got All A’s except 1 B and 1 C (English) his junior year.

Any advice? He’s quite pressured by his friends and family to go to a good college but right now he’s worried about even going to college. To put things in context: he’s from a rich background and his family consists of alumni from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford, Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University. Which are pretty much the top schools in their respective countries.

Is it a feasible for him to raise his SAT to 1500-1600 in just a few months? His dream school right now is Penn State but he sees no hope.
Thanks.