<p>OH. EM. GEE. Three and a half hours. -SCREAM-</p>
<p>^ Breath mate.
Over on the SAT results thread they’re ready to tar and feather each other. I can’t keep up and I can’t sleep, so I might as lurk on HSL.</p>
<p>Phew. I ran in the door at exactly 6 PM my time with my laptop already on and logged onto CB.com. I’m pretty happy with my score [:</p>
<p>PLUS I don’t have school tomorrow. Aaaaahhh.</p>
<p>■■■ I blew it, I did so bad on writing…</p>
<p>2350, March test is in just about a month.</p>
<p>jersey13 = nuts</p>
<p>i’ve often thought of the SAT as something that can’t really be studied for. I mean, yeah, you can practice it and gain a little more experience/familiarity with it, but in the end dedicating hours upon hours of time studying will only improve scores by a margin, and is thus futile after you hit a certain point. </p>
<p>isnt it an aptitude test? so whether you have a certain level of aptitude or not cant be changed by studying, right? i have no idea, im just kind of thinking.</p>
<p>there’s gotta be no way a 1600 can move up to a 2400. i think my reasoning above explains why some ppl get 2300/+'s at their first sitting effortlessly. it’s pretty much innate, either you have it or you don’t.</p>
<p>I had a 2120 sophomore year (May '09). I studied a fair bit over Winter Break '09 and ended up with a 2290 junior year (January SAT score). 170 points in 8 months… I’d say it’s a pretty big jump. I’m still debating over whether to retake it or not on account of my CR score (it was a 700 while my other two sections were 790 and 800), but if I decide to it will most likely be in October of my senior year. I have my grades and May AP exams to focus on right now D:</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m going to take the SAT because I’m not super English/Writing-brained, so I think having a poor SAT score wouldn’t be good even if I were to have a good ACT. But I’m so happy for this four-day weekend. Yay for Presidents Day! =D</p>
<p>****, i have to go to schoooool tomorrow. </p>
<p>to do before then:</p>
<ol>
<li>study for major psych test</li>
<li>study for 3 other major tests</li>
<li>write essay on President Harding’s cabinet… no ideeaaaa what to write</li>
<li>an essay on McCoughlin and some other guy compare or something like that</li>
<li>ANOTHER essay analyzing some photograph</li>
</ol>
<p>…</p>
<p>joy.</p>
<p>Heh… My SAT scores make me laugh…</p>
<p>2100 total, 800 on math. Yay for already having ACT safely under my belt. xP</p>
<p>Have you ever read in books that in certain cultures (fictitious or not) there’s one gift that symbolizes the coming of age? I propose that one your 16th birthday you get a letter-opener. True is true?</p>
<p>Seriously, I think admissions have all but finished everything to do with c/o 2010, and it’s all out war to woo c/o 2011.</p>
<p>I got a 1920 on the January SAT, but my PSAT score in October '09 was a 178. So, considering I did like 30 minutes of prep for the SAT, I guess that’s not too bad 
Just need to actually prep and work a bit on the math section so I can break 2000 in March 
Good luck to everybody!</p>
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<p>LOL I am worried about my SAT scores, some competitions coming up, and the fact I got a 79.3 in math first semester junior year. Ouch 
I guess time for us to battle haha</p>
<p>OMG I failed and got a 1990 on the SAT.
WHY not just give me a 1999.99999999???
SERIOUSLY</p>
<p>I still haven’t taken the PSAT haha, then there’s AP tests, SAT again, SAT subjects (math2&biom) and some weird EAP thing just for living in CA… siiick</p>
<p>DIE junior year just DIE</p>
<p>^Haha, my friends were scared they didn’t break 2000 on the SAT as well. This year is awful. I’m taking SAT IIs in May, then AP exams, then finals, then SAT I in June. My life rules :D</p>
<p>Let’s see…</p>
<p>February-April: Work on getting through second semester junior year with at least better grades than last semester 
May: SAT II subject tests (though I’m anticipating these will be easy - French and Spanish. Got 740 French in December; however I really think I must have bubbled something wrong towards the end, thus affecting my scores). Also, AP tests! Seven of them! Joy.
June: More SAT II subject tests (German and Physics). I’m more scared about German than I am about Physics, though</p>
<p>Sigh… it just never seems to end. And if I do decide to retake my SAT, I will have to prep like crazy during the summer and take it in October of senior year.</p>
<p>^So you can understand four languages?</p>
<p>^ I’m fluent in four. I was raised bilingual since I am Chinese by race (hence English and Chinese), lived in Montreal for a year in elementary school and became fluent in French, then learned Spanish since age 11. German… ehhh, I’m still learning it. I am NOWHERE near fluent, which is why I’m scared for the SAT II haha.</p>
<p>^ As an addendum (in case anyone else was curious), languages are actually my major extracurricular… I can safely say I’m fluent because I’ve earned several internationally recognized proficiency certificates (google DALF C2, Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi [HSK] Advanced, DELE). I currently have a job as a paid translator, earning $0.05 for every word I translate. My source and target languages are English, Mandarin Chinese, French, and Spanish… don’t know how this would be perceived in terms of college admissions, but I really enjoy my work. Plus, I can do as much or as little as I want to, at whichever time I want to. Flexible hours FTW! :P</p>
<p>^ Great. I live in Hong Kong and grew up in a Chinese-speaking family, and I’m still not fluent in Chinese. I’ve learned 5 foreign languages to varying degrees of fluency, but I’m not even close to fluent in the one I’m most proficient in (French). Major jealousy here.</p>