I just took the SATs again hoping to improve my 1480 score but I’m not sure if I scored any better and might have even done worse. Right now I’m looking into pretty competitive colleges such as Berkley and Duke, and I hate to think thats it’s solely because of my low sat score that prohibited me from getting in. I would say my extracurriculars are above average and have a pretty good GPA (3.95 UW). I do have one last chance to take the test again for the regular decision schools but I’m so sick of studying for this exam. Is it worth it to take it again? (I already tried the ACT and only got a 32 so…) (and btw I’m asian so these scores rly suck for me)
Sometimes it is okay to say “I am a person with 1480/3.95” and what colleges will I match well to instead of saying “I want to go to the top most colleges” . If you want to get into those colleges, you may have to study study study. But there are many other wonderful colleges that you can get into and shine.
I think a 1480 is fine. Test scores don’t carry the whole weight, and research shows that GPA and courses taken may actually be more important.