Extremely Horrific SAT II scores.. HELP!!

dufus3709
Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:25:00 +0000

Agreed. The difficulty of curriculum, gpa/rank and standardized test scores get you thrown onto a “possible” pile. From that point on, the combination of academic record, EC’s, essays and recommendations determines your fate. The OP should not worry about his SAT II scores, but work on an essay to make him/her stand out from the crowd as being unique/special/memorable. Besides having good EC’s by themselves, the EC’s need to support the point being made in the essay.

However, if you are in a high school where 20 other people are applying to the college, the college can not take that many people from a single high school and comparisons will be made between the applicants from that single high school. It defies common sense, though, that anyone is going to care about the difference between a 800 and 790.