Advice from an admitted student

Columbia09
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:56:43 +0000

What if you don’t have high test scores? What can a 33 on the ACT tell you? That he’s smart, nooooo. That he’s a good student, nnooooooo. Only that he did well on a particuler test on a particuler day and he might of studied his ass off. Thats why I think the ACT and SAT are to over empasized in these applications. And although it does set you aside from other applications with high GPAs I just don’t see why a test should out weigh your passion. The only standardize tests that I really have no problem with are the SAT subject tests. Their unbiased and they get to let a student shine at his own subject. Someone who is a genius at history or biology can’t show that on an ACT or a SAT.