how much do sats matter?

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Help! I’m a freakazoid for spazzing out about this…but how much do sats really matter and will my grades/ec make up for it? Did anyone with lower sats get in?</p>

<p>white, female, ct
top boarding school in country</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
Public Speaking A
Honors Latin A
History A-
Physics A-
English A
Geometry A</p>

<p>Sophmore:
AP Euro B (4)
Honors Latin A
English A
Chem A
Algebra II/Trig A</p>

<p>Junior:
AP Latin A (5)
AP US A- (5)
AP English A- (4)
Bio B+
Pre-Calc A
Orchestra A</p>

<p>Senior:
AP Physics B
AP Calc AB
Honors English
Advanced Readings in Roman Lit.
Orchestra
Tudor Englan History</p>

<p>ECS:
Editor in Chief of newspaper (four years on staff)
Yale Daily News Summer Jounralism Program
Top Ten New England USTA Tennis
Nationally Ranked Tennis Player
Varsity Tennis 4 yrs. no. 1 and team captain
lots of tennis awards
Club Head of Students for Environmental Awareness
Teach under-priveleged kids tennis
Dorm Proctor
Babysitting + waitressing in the summer</p>

<p>Community Service Award
Latin Award
Physics Award</p>

<p>OK HERES THE THING …my sats SUCK</p>

<p>Math 710
Reading 700
Writing 770</p>

<p>US 730
English Lit 710
Latin 710</p>

<p>Is there any hope with low scores like these???</p>

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<p>lol. /********************/</p>

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<p>you are nuts those scores are great</p>

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<p>are you kidding me?</p>

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<p>Retake…</p>

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<p>I swear to God that I have seen about 10 nationally ranked tennis players on these boards…
SAT I-OK
SAT II-RETAKE</p>

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<p>I’m probably ranked nationally in tennis!!!</p>

<p>About 278,540th from the top!</p>

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<p>You might be able to transfer into a third-tier college from your local community school.</p>

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<p>lol, gryffon & saved</p>

<p>And tennisgrl, your SAT scores do not “suck” - there’s plenty of people who get into Yale with score lower than yours.</p>

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<p>tennis girl, i got a 520 math, 610 critical reading, and a 560 writing on the SATI.
i got a 530 math2, 640 math1, 630 chem, and 640 bio on the SATIIs.
i got a 29 composite ACT score. </p>

<p>What do you think of me? I reeealy wanna know.</p>

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<p>I’m currently a freshman at Yale University (Calhoun College!) and my SAT scores were:</p>

<p>800 M, 710 W, 730 R </p>

<p>and on SAT II’s:</p>

<p>800 Math IIC, 730s on Physics, Chem, Korean. 710 on US History.</p>

<p>Plus I’m not nationally ranked anything. They’ll probably want you to beat those James Blake characters at H******. Haha. You’re fine. Good luck (skill).</p>