<p>Some people say that unless you have a 2000+ sat score than colleges wont even look at your application – how valid is this? (the hard-to-get-into-colleges) </p>
<p>@thegrant </p>
<p>I’d think it’s more correlation that causation. Most people who are able to get into top colleges can probably get above 2000+ with little effort. I don’t think any top college will throw you out based on SAT if you have something else.</p>
<p>@Woandering, I know what you were getting at. Best of luck in all your future endeavors, testing and otherwise.</p>
<p>@albert69 @Woandering I completely, totally, 100% agree with what you guys said. There’s so much more to life than studying for the SATs or for that matter, standardized tests in general. And I’m really proud of you guys for achieving your target scores and aiming for better scores! </p>
<p>It’s just that when you put your blood, sweat, and tears into studying for something that you studied for 24/7 (i.e. THIS FRICKING SAT) and you don’t improve at all, yeah, well that’s when all hell breaks loose.</p>
<p>Anyways, thank you guys for your personal insights and motivation. I hope we all get into whatever college we want to get into and live a happy, successful life (one that doesn’t consist of cleaning up an animal’s waste products.) :+)</p>
<p>guys go to xat.com /sat</p>
<p>I was looking at some of the accepted posts from different top schools (EA/ED) and honestly their SAT scores varied a lot. Huge range. And the people who were deferred or rejected usually had just as good scores. So I think once you get up there, colleges care way more about things other than your testing scores. But it’s always nice to have high scores!</p>
<p>I do know something of how wild it is to get the high scores - and that they do not mean everything, by far. My older sister got a perfect SAT score - 1600 at that time. (She’s a lot older than me.) Crazy part is (looking back now) she did that in her first attempt, one sitting. Granted that she studied for a year after getting a NMSC qualifying PSAT score in one of the states with the the highest cutoffs - and she took that test cold - she had no preparation beyond her regular schoolwork. She made it to NMS. She was interviewed for an Ivy but she bombed the interview, so she ended up going to a state school. (Not that my folks could have paid for it even if she had gotten in, but still.) </p>
<p>Sat scores do vary a lot when it comes to ivys, my cousin had a 1960 on SAT and he was strong in other aspects. He ended up getting accepted into UPenn and Columbia. So its not just what you get on SAT but how involved you are in things, and how ambitious you are. </p>
<p>@Woandering you probably already said this somewhere but where are you looking at college?</p>
<p>From what I have learned at my school on who got accepted to high end colleges (I am in 11th grade, so this is me next year), as long as you are 2250+ your SAT score makes little difference for college admissions. They start to look at other factors like extracurriculars, awards, and personal statement. Some people in my school with 2360 or 2380 scores (can’t remember which one) got turned down by Ivy League, with extracurriculars like state orchestra and history day, similar to what I have. There is also a luck factor involved.</p>
<p>However, make sure you get at least 700 in each section, and not 650 800 800. I hope in reading between 4 and six wrong along with one skip can still get me at least 700. The two questions that determine it are assimilation/traditionalism and explain the attitude/clarify the setting.</p>
<p>Also what I don’t understand is that I got 780 on two Subject tests (Math 2 and US History) and estimate a score in the 2200s for this SAT, but only got 203 on PSAT! I hated October’s PSAT so much; the reading section was insanely hard to understand.</p>
<p>@APScholar18 </p>
<p>My top school right now is CMC. I’ll also be applying to a few Ivies. I also really like Bucknell and URochester.</p>
<p>@Woandering do you mind sharing your weighted and unweighted GPA here or in a PM? Also what classes you are taking.</p>
<p>@APScholar18 </p>
<p>Lol I don’t mind. For just fresh and soph years, I have UW of almost 3.8 (so under 3.8). Yes I suck. But this year so far (almost 1st semester end) I have a 4.0 UW. Hopefully (and more possible than previous years) I’ll be able to maintain a 4.0 this year. </p>
<p>Just some rant but: Last year I hated my English teacher (and she hated me, first btw) and I made a horrible choice in taking Bio H (our school Bio H is about the same difficulty as the AP course. I would never have taken the AP course). So crappy GPA. But I’m aiming for a 3.8+ unweighted, which I think is good enough for most top colleges, so I’m fairly happy. </p>
<p>@Woandering It happens… You don’t suck you are probably getting a 2300 SAT. What all did you do for SAT prep?</p>
<p>Does anyone know what time of day scores will be available online on Tuesday?</p>
<p>@student0011 – Cut and pasted from the College Board website:
“Students can view their scores on the Web by signing in to My SAT after 8 a.m. Eastern Time on the dates listed above.” </p>
<p>The ‘date listed above’ for the Dec 6 test is Tuesday, Dec 23rd.
In the past the website has occasionally been unavailable right at 8 a.m. due to the demand overload.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>@APScholar18 </p>
<p>Some tutoring, lots of practice. What most people do really.</p>
<p>WAIT, SCORES DONT COME OUT ST 5 AM FOR THIS SAT??? </p>
<p>@thegrant</p>
<p>Officially, CB say they post scores at 8am Eastern Time. However, in CC experience, they do also post it a lot earlier, and the consensus is 5am Eastern Time or 2am Pacific Time. I’m hoping they’ll post it earlier because I’ll be staying up, and I want to see my score before CB crashes. </p>