<p>How much do SAT scores matter if they are contradicting my college GPA?</p>
<p>I am very nervous when it comes to taking SAT test, or may be the SAT is not the right test for me!</p>
<p>What ever the reason is, my SAT scores are contradicting my GPA. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the SAT should predict how well the student will do in college?</p>
<p>beside my math research, the SAT scores predict that I will not even do OK on the regular college classes!!</p>
<p>So my question is, in this case what will MIT admissions do? and does any one have seen this kind of case!
I really feel studpid when I look my SAT scores. They are so low and I am embarrassed sending to top school in USA.</p>
<p>I am pretty much in the same situation as Inconclusive, though from the way he wrote, I don’t think I’m in that critical a position. I’d like to see how this turns out.</p>
<p>Guys it is virtually impossible for me to tell you 1. whether your GPA and SAT scores actually conflict or 2. whether your SAT scores are actually that slow. PM me if you don’t want to post them, but I can’t give you advice unless you’re willing to tell me the whole story.</p>
<p>@ k4r3n2, You are so nice for putting me in the range! 900 to 2100
I would rather PM you nevertheless putting Anuragsomani into consideration my SAT scores are this low.
CR+WR+M=1120 this is roughly 47% of 2400 so it is completely fail. I hope I did not insult MIT!
So, that is me.</p>
<p>I took that SAT test in 2007 in my senier year, and in the same year I was asked to be a math tutor by my college!
So again it doest not make sense, how can I tutor college students if I have score of 460 in math.</p>
<p>My GPA is 3.83 my lowest score is B+<br>
I took the hardest classes in my college plus I audited five math classe from another college. I am currently a sophomore in the biggest univeristy in my state.</p>
<p>I also wrote five research papers in LATEX form (which I am trying to publish), but accually I wrote a big note book but it is hand writter and most of the stuffs are reproofs of old theorms. </p>
<p>In my opinion, I think my essays are great if not supper great. Not in english point of view but in content point of view. One of the things I put in the essay are how I survived in civil war, poverty and little schooling, and probably plus my slowness. Plus my former highschool teacher told me that he can not stop writing my evaluation paper ( If it was not him I would not graduate from high school, he told me that I think differently). My college professors will be good too.
and so on.</p>
<p>So I dont want to writte an essay in here, what is your advise, Do you think they will look at my SAT then throw my application?</p>
<p>Do you have any idea about why your scores are so low? Honestly, I’ve never had trouble with standardized tests, but I tutor the SAT and general complains are not enough time. I don’t think that being a slow test-taker can explain why your scores are that low though.</p>
<p>I’m having a really hard time coming up with an explanation about why your scores can be so low but you’d still be able to handle MIT coursework, and I feel like the adcoms will as well. What’s your explanation?</p>
<p>i once heard a rumor that admissions will be happy as long as the scores are 7XX+ … that isn’t promising for you so I’m thinking your best bet may be to stay at the school you are at</p>
<p>also, are you an international? i don’t mean to be critical i just noticed some syntax and typos that lots of internationals make (again not to sterotype)</p>
<p>If you are tutoring college math, I don’t think you should have a hard time with SAT computations… just take the Collegeboard blue book and do practice problems to get used to going fast (speed, unfortunately, is the only true emphasis of the SAT test, but even at MIT, you’ll have to learn to work fastly on exams).</p>
<p>What you do get on practice tests? If it’s drastically different, I would say ask CB to regrade your test, because that’s a possibility (who knows, you could have gotten 2400, but they graded the wrong test?)</p>
<p>I’m having a really hard time coming up with an explanation about why your scores can be so low but you’d still be able to handle MIT coursework, and I feel like the adcoms will as well. What’s your explanation? </p>
<p>To be honest, I have no good explanation! As long as I remember I have been like this.
One good reason may be, I have hard time doing multiblications or even additions and very basic stuff though I can do very complex stuff too. I dont meen that I don’t understand these basic stuffs but it takes me more time to do those stuff than it would take for an average human. Incontrast things that take long time to do or hard to develop can take me little time to do.
So I call may self to be supper slow, but if slow should determine ones success it should be exactly and mathemticaly well defined. Does slow means some one can not do 3 hour sat test or does it mean some one can not solve more than 200 year old Goldbach conjecture?
If it comes to multiblication, we all know Rain Man (Kim Peek) can calculate 333333*4545454 very quickly, but of course he is not a mathematician!</p>
<p>[quot]I can assuredly say you will not get in.
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<p>People have been telling me this since I was a little kid They told me this when I had nothing, but know I think I have some, that you are very sure will not make me quite!</p>
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<p>I can not agree you more, But the quote that makes me think that I can get in is from " The Match Between You And MIT"
<p>That made me laugh Acually I can tutor Calculus, but you may not believe! If you want to know more about my math and math research PM me.
Now you guys making me fool, my case is too special, I should not posted here.</p>
<p>@littlemikey4
Not really but I came here as a refugee, so I am not native speaker.</p>
<p>@ faraday
I don’t even have enough money to take the SAT II
For the exam, I am in the biggest univeristy in my state and I am doing very good. </p>
<p>I am confident that the admissions office is quite a bit less essentialist about the deep meaning of SAT scores than high school students on CC. They’re looking for evidence that you can handle MIT-level work. If they can find that information in other places, your scores may not be a big hurdle; the only problem is that transfer admission is so competitive that it would be ideal to have as few hurdles as possible.</p>
<p>Did you take the SAT in english? Possibly the language barrier is holding you back. Are you a ■■■■■? This could definitely hold you back.</p>
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also, are you an international? i don’t mean to be critical i just noticed some syntax and <em>typos</em> that lots of internationals make (again not to <em>sterotype</em>)</p>
<p>I like your response!
I think I have the evidence, even if it comes to test taking ability, becuase I took other tests than the SAT. For example I got 5 on the AP AB test! which doest not make sence again.</p>
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<p>That is completely true, and it worries me, but not that much. I have more to show than test scores. My research papers are beyond any test scores, even MIT graduate student (SPAMS organiser) impressed my work when I was trying to give a talk at graduate seminar!
What worries me much is that they will throw my application at the first glance.</p>
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Not really, If you live longer you will see every thing
I do exist! but it is not easy to be different :(</p>
<p>This will not happen - they will read your application all the way through. When they see your SAT scores they will look for other evidence that you can handle the level of coursework - as Mollie said.</p>
They told me this when I had nothing, but know I think I have some, that you are very sure will not make me quite!</p>
Acually I can tutor Calculus, but you may not believe! If you want to know more about my math and math research PM me.