<p>I can’t take the SAT in January because I have an important meet that day, but I’ll definitely be taking it in March - and if I don’t do as well as I wanted I’ll re-take in May. I’ll probably take my SAT II’s in June.</p>
<p>Please excuse me, but my friend dared me to be the last poster on all the hot topics for 1 second.</p>
<p>I’m taking SAT’s at may… I NEEEEEEEED a 2250+</p>
<p>750+ Math
750 - Cr
750+ - Writing</p>
<p>I sooo wanna get into cornell</p>
<p>ohhh standardized tests</p>
<p>SAT in January, ACT February (like the week or two after SAT’s LOL), and then more AP’s and SAT II’s and state testing and… kill me now. Not really. But you know.</p>
<p>Got my PSAT back - disappointing 212. I got a 216 last year, this year I got one more math question right and one fewer writing question and that dropped me 4 points because of the curve or whatever. Worst part is, 216 would definitely make me a finalist since I live in PA, a 212 means I’m a longshot at best (the cut off has been bouncing between 16 and 14, was 14 last year). Maybe I’ll get lucky and it will drop a bit though - most people have said that this year’s test was harder.</p>
<p>Not overly concerned about that since I didn’t prep either time. I’m taking the SAT January 26th so I’m going to try to do serious prep work all through winter break. Hoping to get 2300+ but I’d be fine with anything above 2250 - shooting for 770 across the board, ideally.</p>
<p>how does everyone have their PSAT score already?</p>
<p>SAT in March, ACT in April, AP Exam May, SAT in June (unless satisfied with my March score). Thankfully no SAT Subject tests, none of the colleges I’m applying to require them.</p>
<p>The consensus, at least across college confidential, which isn’t always right, is that there are two reasons for this:
- The scores are shipped from somewhere in the northeast, which would make sense because people in schools up north and to the east are reporting while those in Texas are not.
- Schools can choose to release the scores whenever they wish. My GC told me that they already have them, but won’t release until this Friday or next week, or even the week afterwards, so that the release is more convenient. She shouldn’t have told me that, but she’s cool that way.</p>
<p>Last year I didn’t get my score until the 15th, my school withheld them so that they could all be given out during some assembly / announcement thing. This year they just got given to us in our mailboxes so we got them right away.</p>
<p>PSATs oh my goodness I’m feeling a bit faint…</p>
<p>How much does your PSAT score affect your chances at non-National Merit scholarships relative to SAT scores, GPA, AP scores, etc.?</p>
<p>^shinexalive, they don’t count whatsoever for the other scholarships, although they are decent indicators of how we will do in those things.</p>
<p>Just got my PSAT results!
I got a 227 and I live in Ohio. Does this mean I’ll probably be a semifinalist or is there other stuff I have to do?</p>
<p>You will be a semifinalist, assuming you qualify with the other things. If there is an asterisk by your score, then no. Otherwise, hello nmsf! Congrats!</p>
<p>@DukeHopeful Thanks for clarifying 
phew that’s good.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather Congrats! I live in Ohio too (where’s your school?) and we haven’t gotten ours yet, but you’re incredibly above the cutoff.</p>
<p>I recently (as in a few hours ago) received an email from college board saying that my test scores are ready for viewing on college board. The thing is, the section for placing my test code has been up for about a week now. Either way, that is of little consequence because I don’t have my number anyway.
The real questions that this email poses for me: does that mean that my scores have been shipped? Is it just an automated email and they shipped my scores off four days ago? Does my school even have my test back yet? I was given some misinformation by my guidance counselor, so while I thought I was receiving them today, it could just as easily be in February.
Grrrr. I’m curious.</p>
<p>They’ve been shipped already.</p>
<p>The scores were delivered to my school a few days ago but there was no one in the office to accept the delivery so we have to wait even more.</p>
<p>Oh, the administration…</p>
<p>Has anyone here come across the Reddit thread from about a year ago by this kid who wanted to go to MIT, but then gave up because he got a 1900 on his SAT and he got a few B’s? A professor/former student/more then commented with an inspirational reply talking about how hard work, motivation, & time exposed to the material at hand > everything else.</p>
<p>Should I drop IB Film? Im not taking full IB, I would take AP psych or Econ instead and it would allow me to have the AP Chen teacher I want. BUT I really don’t want to drop a class</p>
<p>@lldm21: Yep. I loved it. Here it is: <a href=“http://■■■■■■/9fNDl[/url]”>http://■■■■■■/9fNDl</a></p>
<p>In other news, I got a perfect score on the PSAT! Feeling pretty good.</p>
<p>@Stud: Wow, congratulations!</p>
<p>How do you feel about Inri137’s stance? For instance, I was thinking about some of my friends who study for hours, but still have a lot of difficulty learning subject material; I’m not even talking honors/AP kids. Granted, much of the time they’re grinding rather than studying “correctly”, but my question remains- at what point does working hard become pointless? Or does it not? Sorry this is stated kind of awkwardly; I don’t know where my thoughts lie on this one.</p>