<p>I’m a junior in highschool.
In short:
I have a good gpa A+, LOTS of extracurricular,tackled ap courses and exams.
my sat, however, is not so appealing being a 1700ish.
Will that one flaw be a major factor in the decision of me being a possible hopeful?</p>
<p>It depends entirely on which college/major you are applying to and what your other stats/recommendations/essays are like.</p>
<p>1700ish is too low. People get into great schools with low SAT scores all the time, but a 1700ish score is gonna be a huge disadvantage when applying to Cornell. You’ll need to be fantastic in other aspects to get in. </p>
<p>I think you should retake the SAT. Given your GPA, I think you can do a lot better.</p>
<p>Yes you can make it. 
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<p>You should try taking the ACT also. We’ve had some students perform significantly better on ACt than SAT.</p>
<p>I suggest that you purchase a good prep book–and create a method of learning lots of vocabulary words.</p>
<p>I agree with you all. I have been taking some SAT prep courses and I’m actually going to take a diagnostic tomorrow. (yay…)
I’m very confident everything but the SAT is good.</p>
<p>“We’ve had some students perform significantly better on ACt than SAT.”
about the ACT, what makes it different from the SAT? and which majors are hot right now?</p>
<p>ACT only has 4 sections, but they’re longer than the sections on the SAT. The four sections are: English, Reading, Math, and Science</p>
<p>ACT is more about time management…not as difficult “problem solving” questions as the SAT but you must answer quickly to get a high score. I work for a school system in NY state and overt he past 3-4 years the majority of our students who’ve taken both have scored higher on the ACT…some say that it is becasue NY has a better curriculum than some states but I don’t really know why.</p>
<p>take the ACT. I took the SAT, got a 16something and then took the ACT, got around a 30 (when superscored) and will be attending in the fall good luck!</p>
<p>ACT is mainly taken by students from the South and Midwest. Not sure but they may be weaker than students from the East and West coasts (ie a more favorable curve). I have rarely seen students score worse on the ACT than the SAT.</p>
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<p>The ACT tests more for the stuff that the state curriculum offers. However, the New York curriculum is pretty bad for SAT prep since it lacks a number of concepts for the latter exam.</p>
<p>Wow, I will definitely look into that then.
Since its summer, what should i I do to get ahead of the crowd for scholarships and such?
My counselor recommends I start writing essays now.</p>
<p>“The ACT tests more for the stuff that the state curriculum offers. However, the New York curriculum is pretty bad for SAT prep since it lacks a number of concepts for the latter exam.”</p>
<p>…you must be referring to the math section? Our excellerated students take precalc as juniors and calc as seniors. Some of the problem we have is that these students take the first algebra course as 8th graders, in some cases three years removed from when they take the SAT. As a result SAT review classes for math can be very benificial.</p>