<p>In April, I got the following:</p>
<p>M: 700 - 6 wrong
CR: 550 - 22 wrong
W: 560 - 09E - 53MC - 16 wrong</p>
<p>I’m re-taking the SAT in October b/c I want to do better and want to apply to Upenn’s Wharton School of Business. I’ll get great recommendations from teachers and my guidance counselor. I have a good GPA of 3.8 UW (or 94% UW). My school is pretty competitive…my rank is about 5/44. I have lot of ECs and leadership positions.</p>
<p>I know my SATs scores are quite low and am wondering whether it is possble to bring it up to put me in the running for being accepted ED to Wharton. I know I can get my Math to at least a 750+. The writing section surprised me because on practice tests I was in the high 600s and low 700s. My CR has always been terrible. I think I would have done better if I learned more vocabulary. Perhaps, my score would have gone up by at least 100 points.</p>
<p>Any suggestions? I have this whole summer and September to get my scores up.</p>
<p>My goal:
M: 770+
W: 770+ - 10E+
CR: 700+</p>
<p>You can do anythig you set your mind to…</p>
<p>But seriously, your goal is quite ambitious.
I think the best thing for you to do would just to take a sh@#tload of practice tests or sections. That way you’ll be so familiar with the test’s questions that hopefully you can get your desired scores easily. Knowing the test is one of the best ways to do well.</p>
<p>Alright…any good advice for bringing up a CR score up? Anyone go from a mid 500 to a high 700 and have advice?</p>
<p>I would recommend reading a lot…Any type of literary work helps.</p>
<p>Ex: Newspaper, novels, magazines…etc</p>
<p>Also, have a dictionary beside you in order to define any words that are unfamiliar to you.</p>
<p>Yeah…I try to read the papers everyday. I have to read for AP English…hopefully that helps.</p>
<p>Writing is the easiest to overcome. Just crack open a good prepbook</p>
<p>Glucose101 is right. Writing is easiest to overcome because almost all of the essays that recieve 11 and 12 follow the same pattern, which is easy enough to learn with practice. Also, you can do what I did and buy the Kaplan set of 600 SAT flashcards. You learn that all of the sentence errors fall into one of about eight different types of errors (diction, unnecessary passive, etc.). Eventually the writing will become a breeze. Also, the cards are decent when it comes to the math and critical reading sections.</p>
<p>Also, just keep practicing and you can raise your score a lot. I’ve known people to get really serious into preparing for the SAT, and then increase their score 400 to 500 points. Just make sure if you feel like you’re gonna increase your score 350 points or more that you don’t cheat off the people around you (I doubt you would) and that no one cheats off of you! Cause if you increase 350 points or more, or 250 points per section, you’re test is flagged for cheating. Not to worry though, if your test doesn’t look like those around you and if your handwriting on the essay looks remotely similar to your usual handwriting, then you’re fine 
Typically you’ll recieve your scores a week late if this happens.</p>
<p>I would have to raise my scores at least 350 points to a 2160…and I don’t think I will be raising any individual scores by 250 points…b/c then I would be at an 800 or higher.</p>
<p>I’m not dumb enough to cheat off other people…God knows how dumb they could possibly be.</p>