<p>i have always been naturally bad at taking the sat/act. Sat II’s are easy, but sat I has been hard. I know a lot of ppl in my situation where they have a nice gpa but low sat. I have a 4.32 coming from a very competitive school with high rankings on their api (with demographics scaled 10). A 4.32 is not even top 4% of my class. Furthermore, our school is infamous for its difficult ap classes. Over 40% of the school receives 5s on their ap exams. So you cant say that my school is inflated. Personally, i know i’m smart adn talented, and i feel the sat does a poor job of measuring my knowledge. </p>
<p>I just wish the colleges i applied to realized this. I seriously hate all these standardized tests. I fail at the reading comprehension section, and i want to study sciences. Where is the correlation there? 2/3 of the sat measures your ability to communicate… This is clearly favored to native speakers. I myself, a trilingual have great difficulty adapting to it (writing is fine but not reading).</p>