<p>K, I got a score total of 1950 on the collegeboard practice test. I think my weakest was maths- It was my first time ever having done the full test in one go. So I think 1950 is Ok. Except I want to go to Harvard, and don’t they expect their student to automatically have like 2300 or summin?</p>
<p>So basically, I was just wondering, if it was relatively possible to improve my score by that much, if by June, if not bu Fall, when Ill be retaking the exams.</p>
<p>well if you are going to write “dratically” or “summin” on your writing exam then you already know where a major weakness of yours is. I hope spelling “drastically” incorrectly was just a typo or else you’ve got a lot of work to do ahead of you in order to get 2300.</p>
<p>Try buying the barrons 2400. It helps a lot.
Remember the practice test doesn’t include a grade for writing and is generally easier than the real thing.</p>
<p>Atomicbomb22 makes a good point.</p>
<p>If, from your first] day in first grade you check everything you write or ewrite for spelling, grammar and meaning, you will have at least 10 years of preparation for the SAT.</p>
<p>If you say “nah, I don’t care about the spelling in this, it’s only a post/email/blog/bomb threat,” you will waste all that time and possible experience.</p>
<p>The SAT is 50% of your application, and is the most important part of your application. What do you suggest to improve dramatically.</p>
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<p>Says who???</p>
<p>I concur with BigIs. Your statement is completely erroneous…proof of its invalidity being the fact that Harvard rejected half of its SAT 2400s this year…</p>
<p>For example, i know this girl who got into all ivies and had 630 CR, 800 Math, 650 Writing…SAT is not everything.</p>
<p>I went to yale on campus admissions tour and SAT was at the bottom of their rank of things they look at in an application:</p>
<p>1) Transcript
2) Recommendations / Essays
3) Extracurriculars
4) Standardized scores</p>
<p>aazout: you’re living in fantasy land. It appears you haven’t the first idea what the ultra selective colleges are looking for. Don’t give advice that’s just speculation.</p>
<p>I think that statement was quite obviously a joke…</p>
<p>I sure hope so…for his/her sake as well.</p>
<p>aazout is correct. I have spoken to a former Yale admissions officer, and according to him, the SAT is 50% of your application, grades 25%, and everything else 25%. However, the SAT will not get you in; the admissions officers only use the SAT to reject people. If your score is above a certain score, they just ignore it and look at the rest of your application.</p>
<p>See, I highly doubt that, not because my SAT scores are low or something, but because there have been numerous cases where SAT scores proved your conjecture wrong. And stating that it is 50% is too definite to work, especially when we are dealing with standardized scores that are so clear about people’s grades, compared to the admissions results that are so vague…</p>
<p>Obviously there are people who have gotten into highly selective colleges without excellent scores, but these people are exceptions.</p>
<p>Go to Yale and see the stats of people…you will see people with amazing SAT scores and rejections…why? because they are not the priority that you state.</p>
<p>I am not undermining SAT scores…on the contrary, I think they should be a priority. I am just stating that it simply cannot be 50% based on SAT scores, because if that were the case, the results would be so much more different…</p>
<p>I’m not saying that a high score will get you accepted. What I’m saying is that a low score will get you rejected, unless the rest of your application is outstanding.</p>
<p>See, that is contradictory to what you said. According to aazout, 50% is SAT. Which means that a great score can get u in according to the numbers. So you do not agree with the 50% thing, do u? </p>
<p>Cuz if u do then u agree with the fact that a great SAT score can get u in, after all it is 50%.</p>
<p>Anyways, enough about the 50% thing, it still come back this this, is there anyway I can improve my score “drastically” it was a typing mistake soz, but you can’t re-edit after you named your post. Still except for grades what do they want in the remaining 50%.</p>
<p>passion that is conveyed through your ecs and essays</p>
<p>my school is crap at ECs and I’m new, so although I’ll be asking my old state school for reference, which they may not give because my parents forced me to ditch them for the localk private, well any chance of reference looks doomed + my new school is right in the city and is an old listed(heritage) building because it used to be one of residences of one of the Archbishops of Canterburry, so they have in short low ceiling, which means you can forget about basketball and volley and anything else for that matter, that requires a hall to play in. + it’s in the city and we therefore can’t play and field games, not even cricket, not that I like it much, but it’s the closest to rounders you’re gonna have. So see in my case, even if I manage to present a good outgoing persona somehow, my grades have to be make up for it</p>