<p>OMG, like, blueberry is SO the new strawberry!!!</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m another one of those sleepers. I take 5 AP Classes each year, and still get 8-9 hours of sleep per night. Oh, and i had a question. Khoitrinh responded earlier about filling in all the bubbles for some questions. Does this actually work? I’m looking to improve my score just a little bit, so this could help haha.</p>
<p>Of course it works. How else do people get 2400s? It can’t be because they are smart.</p>
<p>And you know collegeboard is all about earning money. They don’t want unnecessary waste to go to buying good scanning machines. The old 1934 ones work just as good as they have always worked.</p>
<p>But remember to not pass that secret around too much. If too many people do it, college board may catch on someday.</p>
<p>Khoitrinh, I’m having a hard time believing you. Like i can understand how it would work, but still. Jokes aside, can you tell me the truth (you may be already, idk). And i won’t pass it around lol.</p>
<p>I feel like you all took my previous post out of context. I am not saying that you are a robot for a 2400 haha. I’m just saying that you should check school’s admission statistics. Obviously a 2400 is amazing! But 2400’s get denied quite a bit actually…I’m trying to say its not all about the 2400</p>
<p>Student A=2250, amazing EC’s, GPA is nice also=ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>Student B=2400!!!, does nothing else, GPA is pretty good=DENIED!</p>
<p>Are you saying that college admissions would rather prefer a 2250 with some EC to 2400 with nothing else? Have you seen the princeton admissions?</p>
<p>^Agreed. Odd how 2300-2400 applicants get accepted at a rate of 26%, versus less than 15% of students with 2200-2300…Hmmm. </p>
<p>Also, I honestly doubt that all people who get 2400 do nothing else.</p>
<p>People need to stop strawmanning perfect scores. It’s really bugging me, and it’s wrong. Please stop inventing contrived scenarios to justify the belief that perfect scorers get rejected. Of course they do. But you are not an admissions officer. You do not know the process. You know the statistics, which state that ON AVERAGE 2300-2400 get accept at two and a half times the rate of the applicants as a whole (the percentage is probably higher for 2400 than 2300). Saying that someone with great ECs will get in over a 2400 is dumb. You don’t know that. I know tons of people with great ECs who get rejected. Perfect scorers also get rejected. What have we learned? I can tell you this from the stats the schools themselves release, and what adcoms have explicitly told me regarding essays:</p>
<p>Perfect SAT + great GPA + decent ECs + excellent essays = ACCEPTED</p>
<p>2250 SAT + okay GPA + great ECs + decent essays = REJECTED, maybe</p>
<p>You would be surprised how many kids get in based on academics. If they can show that they have a great personality through the essays, the school has no problem admitting them. Or so every adcom I have ever talked to has told me.</p>
<p>ECs are valuable, but academics come first. No question.</p>
<p>“ECs are valuable, but academics come first. No question.”</p>
<p>OWNED =D</p>
<p>Can you really fill in multiple answer choices without getting caught? </p>
<p>It seems as though this would just as likely be marked as a wrong answer because when you make stray marks or eraser marks on an answer, that the machine can mark this incorrect.</p>
<p>No, ^ this is a very well-kept secret. I would not be surprised if the moderators soon deleted this post. The way the SAT works is if the machine gets “confused” about which answer is correct and is forced to mark correct. This only works if you shade lightly so that it is not distinguished as mark or unmarked. </p>
<p>Thank god for this technique, lest we need to study!!</p>
<p>The pandas are going extinct.</p>
<p>^By the way, that advice is poop. Don’t listen to it.</p>
<p>That advice is poop. Panda’s don’t really die when we post here. But that other advice is awesome. I didn’t know that the bubbling had to be light. Maybe that is why I didn’t get everything right. Oh well. The machine doesn’t really check for wrong answers. They only check to see if the correct one is bubbled in. If it isn’t bubbled then it is wrong, if it is then its right. The other 4 choices don’t matter at all, so if they are all bubbled, then all the questions are flagged as ‘correct’.</p>
<p>“Khoitrinh, I’m having a hard time believing you. Like i can understand how it would work, but still. Jokes aside, can you tell me the truth (you may be already, idk). And i won’t pass it around lol.”
I have been telling the truth the whole time. 8-9 other people have already confirmed it in this thread, but some of those posts have been deleted. If I was lying then you would get like a 600 on the test and that would be mean, not to mention it would probably kill your chances of getting into college.</p>
<p>If only there was a way to improve our scores through hard work and study.</p>
<p>Yea, I know. I tried that studying thing some time ago, and my score actually dropped 1340 points. I stayed up till 5:00 am the night before and I could only stay up for like 5 minutes in each section. Thank god that other strategy kept me from getting a 600.</p>
<p>Die Pandas DiE!!!</p>
<p>The population of Pandas was estimated at 1000-3000 before this thread was started. Do you think we can successfully kill them all off?</p>
<p>Hopefully we only have 900 or so left to go, because 2900 more posts is an awful lot.</p>
<p>^Wow… Killing pandas.</p>
<p>Anyway, about the bubbling trick: I would suggest not trying it. If it doesn’t work, you just owned yourself.</p>
<p>But I can confirm that it does work. And lolilaughed confirmed it as well. </p>
<p>If it doesn’t work then you may have owned yourself, but if it does work, imagine the possibilities. A 2400, although no the only thing that matters, will help you so much in college admissions.</p>
<p>881 Pandas Left.</p>
<p>First, it’s confirmed by people on a forum that could be lying. Not saying you are, I’m saying it’s possible. Second, there is risk involved (the proctor not liking it, you getting a crap score, etc.). </p>
<p>Just take the SAT normally, as it’s meant to be taken. Not doing so is defeating the purpose of the test.</p>