<p>I took it once this year and got a 600 in all three sections (11 on essay yet somehow managed to do horrible on the MC). </p>
<p>I took it once in tenth grade but left a lot blank so received like 500 somethings… but that was 10th grade when I never even knew how to take an SAT.</p>
<p>Not like I do now… 600s suck. But does it really matter if you have everything else to back yourself up?</p>
<p>I hate SATS.</p>
<p>Standardized assumptions of someone’s knowledge. </p>
<p>Bleh…</p>
<p>not as serious as you may think, but yeah, pretty important.</p>
<p>But does it really matter if you have everything else to back yourself up?</p>
<p>It depends on which colleges you wish to go to… if your aiming for the ivies then yes, it will significantly hurt your chances…</p>
<p>Well let’s put it this way. </p>
<p>Universities, the top ones especially, have reputations and rankings to maintain. Admitting low scorers would lower their average SAT score of the class and this will jeopardize its ranking among publications such as the US News.</p>
<p>Now if you don’t have the SAT score, you must have something else that would REALLY make you stand out to make a compelling case for the adcom to admit you, ie. a hook. This is something like URM, winning some nationwide/international science olympiad or even finding the cure for cancer. Very few people have those hooks that I mentioned, so it is my opinion that you have to make sure that your SAT is within or even above the school’s range. </p>
<p>If you lurk around the boards and check the stats of applicants admitted/rejected you will see that those with lower SATs usually have a strong hook going for them.</p>
<p>Agree with tom. SAT scores matter, especially in top-notch colleges. On their websites, they have admission statistics and usually underneath that is a chart that has the ranges of SAT scores their incoming students fall under. Most of the time students are in the 750-800 range or at least in the 700-800 range. It’s true that if you’re a recruited athlete or minority, the scores are excusable but even then, their scores are decent. Most of them actually have scores over 700 or very high 600s. If you practice, I’m sure you can get over 700.</p>
<p>I would highly suggest you try the ACT. It actually tests what you learned in high school instead of how well you can take a stupid test.</p>
<p>I never understood why the SAT was important anyway…isn’t it more important to understand what you learned than how well you learned to take ONE TEST that you’re never going to take again?</p>
<p>I digress. Try the ACT.</p>