<p>After what score should I stop taking the SATs?</p>
<p>My school list (This will be cut down):</p>
<p>University of Colorado
Washington State University
Whitman College
Oregon State University
Western Washington University
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Oregon
University of Arizona
University of Washington
Drexel University
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Colorado State University
Arizona State University
Loyola University-Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Michigan State University
University of California-San Diego
Vanderbilt University
Gonzaga University
Northeastern University</p>
<p>After what score should I stop? I want a solid score, but I don’t want to cost my parents $41.50 every single time to improve my score by 50 points (or something like that).</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Well, what is your starting score, if you don’t mind my asking, and what is your GPA like. You don’t want a 2350 if your GPA is the equivalent of a B, if you get what I’m saying. It looks like the toughest schools you are applying to are Vandy and Michigan. I would say that 2000+ is satisfactory for those schools, if everything else is there.</p>
<p>At this stage…I think more important than the score you want is the scores that you have been getting…If your scores did not go up much from the last one…and you’ve studied and taken the SAT at least three times…I don’t think it could go any higher…I don’t like saying this cuz it seems very hurtful …But if it really didn’t improve much from the last time I suggest you concentrate all you engery and effort on your eassys instead. Most people don’t realize how important they are…The essay really makes a different…in fact it might even make up or a low test score.</p>
<p>Kidfromohio - why wouldn’t a student with a B average want a 2350? I second the 2000 +, which would be fine for the schools you listed. I wouldn’t recommend taking the SAT more than 3 times.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with a B average at all, but when paired with a 2350…it just seems as if the student prepared too much for the SAT too more, or did not take school seriously as to their full potential.</p>
<p>No, the 2350 and B average makes a student look lazy.</p>
<p>The SAT (despite the politically correct hype) is primarily an aptitude test - which means one cannot simply keep increasing their scores with repeated testings, (for example) 50 points each time on an endless basis</p>
<p>For the average 11th grader in the average school, taking a single SAT prep course and who then takes the test 2 or more times - the scores will eventually flatten out for most applicants -such scores (in most cases) simply reflecting one’s intrinsic aptitude</p>
<p>I have about a 3.5 (uw) and I got a 1750.</p>
<p>A 1750 makes you competitive at almost all of those colleges, I believe. Are you a junior? I think it might be a little too late to get another SAT in senior year, but if you’re a junior then definitely take it one or two more times, if you’ve only taken it once. Your chances will go up at everyone one of those schools with a higher score. Good luck =)!</p>
<p>Yeah I am a junior.</p>
<p>I have a feeling 1750 is very weak because the average for some of schools is 1800+.</p>
<p>It just depends on which of those schools you’re looking at most. For example, Vanderbilt’s 25th percentile is substantially higher than VCU’s 75th percentile. If you want to have a good shot at every school on that list, you’ll definitely wanna take it again and try and go up somewhere between 100 and 300 points.</p>
<p>um…first the sat is used to measure grade inflation in several high schools…so basically if u score high on sat and do bad on gpa…it may indicate ur school is extremely competetive while if u do bad in sat and do well on gpa it may indicate ur school is bad</p>
<p>2350 and a B average make you look lazy no matter how good your school is. I know a girl that got rejected from Duke three years ago because there was “discrepancy between her SAT Math and her grades in math,” (Her SAT was 800 and grades were B I believe).</p>
<p>SHS, keep in mind that you don’t have to be top 25%, or even middle 50% of SAT scores to get in. Someone got those scores that were bottom 25%, might as well be you. Just show them with the rest of your app why you deserve to be there.</p>
<p>Well, for schools that practice affirmative action and/or have large athletic programs, underqualified (based on GPA/SAT) minorities and athletes probably make up the bulk of that bottom 25%.</p>
<p>wow thats a long list. you might have to turn this thread into a list-chopping session 
of course we will need more info for that but if youd like to do so. go ahead. or create a second thread (if you want to).
as for the SATs, go until you feel satisfied. if thats not until 2400 though, id stop at 2200 bc thats morethan enough. i agree 2000+ is great for all those schools. no need to get in the top quartile for your dream schools. thats why theyre dream schools</p>
<p>colleges would rather have the lazy kid as mentioned on page 1.</p>
<p>think about it</p>
<p>would you rather have a dumb kid that tries as hard as he can get and gets Bs with no potential to get As</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>a smart kid that doesnt really try but still gets Bs (same output as dumb kid) but has the potential get As (higher earnings)</p>
<p>obviously the 2nd kid is a better product and colleges would rather have him.</p>
<p>I’m going to rephrase your question:</p>
<p>Would you rather have the dumb kid that tries hard, gets good grades, motivates the individuals around him and stays out of trouble.</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>The lazy kid that smokes and drinks and flunks out of school.</p>
<p>yea most of the smart lazy kids i know are potheads.</p>