1780 May SAT 4.0 GPA

singh2010
Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:56:16 +0000

My only problem with the SAT in college admissions is that it puts students for whom English is not their first language at a severe disadvantage and strongly favors students who prefer English over math/science. I see this regularly at my school - many students who have an 800 on the math portion of the SAT I, all four math/science subject tests, and have never gotten a B in their life, still end up with an SAT score about 200 points lower than mine simply because they can only muster 650s on their SAT reading and writing. In my opinion, this score (~2050) does not reflect their ability to succeed in math/science majors in college.

They still get into decent schools like Berkeley, so it’s not that big of a deal, but I feel like this rules them out of the top privates even though they could probably succeed there.