<p>Has anyone else heard from their school yet? Today my principal stopped me in the hall and asked if he could put my name on the sign-thingy outside our school. I had no idea I was a semi-finalist; apparently the counselors were supposed to tell me last week. Ha ha!</p>
<p>(For the record: score was 221, live in SC, chose Brown & Hopkins for colleges)</p>
<p>It’s supposed to remain confidential for like another week. :P. But yup</p>
<p>Me./<em>yay!!!</em>/</p>
<p>225 in NY, so I’m pretty sure, but they haven’t told me yet.</p>
<p>225 in NJ; yeah, my guidance counselor is making me get the forms tomorrow.</p>
<p>mooooore esssayyyysssssss.</p>
<p>first choice: Huntsman, Wharton. =]</p>
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<li>(Got a 240 Sophomore year, but apparently sophomores aren’t cool enough that their test scores actually count.) Materials are due Oct. 1 for my school… of course, I have NO clue how to even begin my essay so that it will actually be interesting and stand out, while at the same time plumbing the depths of my soul, all within 500 words.</li>
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<p>Edit: I chose New college of Florida and Tufts, because of the money factor and because it’s not binding or anything. I don’t think :-p</p>
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<li> Yay for more essays. Good luck to everyone on that.</li>
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<p>I wish they had used a different essay topic. I spent a week deciding how I was going to write the essay, just because I had to come up with a way to focus it inside that incredibly broad topic and still hit all the points I wanted to.</p>
<p>I would have made it… except I bubbled in two of the choices incorrectly.
It’s kind of a paradox. I’m smart enough to have known the correct answers, but stupid enough to bubble in D when I should have bubbled C.
Ohhhh man.</p>
<p>Virginia, 229. My SATs are higher, though (1510/2310), and I’m taking them once more next month. Hopefully that’ll help me to make the cut for a scholarship award.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all other semifinalists here on CC! (I want to say it somewhere, and there aren’t any others at my school)</p>
<p>damn my state having such a freakin’ high cutoff. oh, mass.</p>
<p>What I complain about is: How the heck did NJ’s cutoff get higher when all the other states lowered theirs? Not that I mind too much. My app’s due tomorrow and I’m halfway done. Sweet.</p>
<p>Yeah, my SAT score was quite a bit higher. 1600/2360. I heard that SATs were the primary thing they looked at for you to advance – yes? Or am I just wrong?</p>
<p>After finalists are announced, to be a winner, are there more essays?</p>
<p>I thought the PSAT was in October??? I am a junior and was planning to take the PSAT in Oct…is it too late?</p>
<p>These kids took it last year. They’re seniors now.</p>
<p>Do they look at your SATs? I hope not. My reading and writing scores were higher than the PSAT, but my math was lower. :(</p>
<p>yep. 229 in texas. 80/80/69. Oddly enough, the 69 in writing was lower than the score i got when i took the psat in 8th grade (i went 72 to 75 to 78 to 69).</p>
<p>But I got 750 math and 800 cr and writing for the sat so that’s all right i guess.</p>
<p>writing the essay as we speak…my counselor wanted it friday but then he also said that “unless you have a lot of Cs and Ds, a low SAT score, or come off sounding like a complete sociopath in your essay you’re good.”</p>
<p>BTW by low SAT score I believe they’re thinking like under 600s in multiple categories. If you got SF and your SAT went up in two categories you’re pretty good unless you slacked in class or can’t write English.</p>
<p>Oddly enough one of the other SFs at my school got a 4/12 on the essay for the SAT so that might screw him up…kid’s really smart but takes regulars english.</p>