Any chances of getting admitted?

bucaille
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:43:49 +0000

Actually, these scores aren’t surprising. More children were born and raised in France and my oldest was a junior when we moved to the US. In the French system they actually do different math. They analyse and write a lot (2 pages) about one problem when in the American system you would do 20 in the same amount of time. They actually tend to do much better in college level math. Even the math vocabulary is different. Also, they are not used to doing fast calculations so the SAT is tricky. However, I’m sure that the colleges know how to evaluate international students. The only problem is that there are a lot of international students who plan ahead and work and work on the SAT prep and actually get the great scores too. I don’t know what 91% means on the TOEFL. A score of 91 isn’t 91%. It’s 91 out of 120 which is considered good. A lot of schools want 100.