<p>namtrag- If your son was going to GT id swear you were my parent 
Except my SAT score wasnt that high, partly because I forgot my calculator and partly because of a party. High school was a cakewalkā¦but I realize that college is a whole different game, and Iām actually preparing to study and read booksā¦something I think I did once or twice my freshman year. If he knows anything about college, and if heās as smart as you sayā¦he should wise up and be fine</p>
<p>Sai is a geniusā¦ Donāt call him an idiot or heāll pwn you hahaha.</p>
<p>Seriously though, saiās $#!@ing smart, but I think average for Asians without prepping is about 1800.</p>
<p>I can see why youād think 2100 is average though:
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<p>Oh, and I disagree with the whole 4.3 thing. A 4.3 isnāt hard at all. To someone who takes 14 or 15 AP classes, a 4.3 is a student with 2 Bās for every 4 Aās. Not very hard.</p>
<p>is it even possible to take 14 or 15 apās?</p>
<p>Umm, yes?</p>
<p>Iāve seen people at CC take 8 APs for Junior/Senior year, 4 APs Sophomore year, and 1 AP as a freshman.</p>
<p>21 APs.</p>
<p>Wow, our S school only offers maybe 10 AP classes. You young people probably donāt realize this, but when I went to high school, we had no AP, no honors, only French and Spanish, and no math higher than Trig. I still got into W&M, and only had a 1260 SAT. I wouldnāt even get into Va Tech now, much less W&M.</p>
<p>It seems so much harder now, but at the same time, it seems like wasted effort because itās all relative. You guys have to work so much harder to get into schools, but everybody is pretty much equal because everyone does all the APās, ECās,etc.</p>
<p>My school only has AP English III and IV, AP US History, AP Calculus, AP Physics, AP Biology, and AP Chemistry. Really, though, Chemistry and Pyshics shouldnāt be labeled as AP since our school doesnāt have any science labs to speak of. </p>
<p>Theyāre too busy getting artificial turf and a huge āstate-of-the-artā fieldhouse for our football boys to actually provide students with decent learning facilities ::rolls eyes::. At least they built a new music building while I was there, though. Iām glad my senior year in band wasnāt filled with girls screaming about rats/mice in the instrument room.</p>
<p>Ah yes namtrag, the old days. My school had college prep trac or vo-tech tracāno honors or anything like thatātrig highest math, one year chem, one year physics, only latin, french and spanishāand just 2 years of those.</p>
<p>And Katho, back then it seemed most big money went to the football stadium too! And NO sports for girls except cheerleading.</p>
<p>Namtrag, your son is one of those few lucky people who manage to do well without putting in a ton of effort. I donāt really see anything wrong with that. Some people have to study for hours to retain information, while others absorb it much more easily. I donāt think this necessarily means his school has grade inflation or he has a very poor work ethic. I tend to be the same way; I work as hard as I need to for a good grade. I never considered myself an avid studier, but I also graduated high school with a 4.3 GPA.</p>
<p>Hopefully your son realizes that his level of work needed to get an A will probably have to increase once he enters college. If he realizes he may have to spend a little more time studying in college, I bet his natural smarts will continue to get him far.</p>
<p>I stand by my earlier post.
2100 is average for an asian without studying.</p>
<p>SAI: Wow, I hope you arenāt a statistics major. </p>
<p>Maybe someone knows if we can find SAT averages by race to figure it out once and for all.</p>
<p>LisaG: Yeah, I think he will be fine if he doesnāt get into the party scene too much. I am just a worrying Dad. I was also a lot like him and I turned out fine.</p>
<p>Sai, when you say āmost Chinese could do itā would that be 65% or 90%? Second, remember that the SAT was recentered a decade ago so you need to bump up a pre 1995 score ~ 70 points on verbal to compare to todayās scores. Even that may not be enough as a 1360 used to be the lowest 99% of the SAT, so after recentering, this would be a 1430, but Iām guessing that 1430 (before the addition of writing) would no longer be in the 99%. </p>
<p>Iām too amazed at the numbers of APs offered/taken and how calculus seems to be taken before senior year now. It seems that students could have enough credits to pass out of whole years of college, but since they will still need to take classes for major/distribution requirements, etc. donāt really see what the point is of taking 16 AP tests.</p>
<p>Shoot, I didnāt take any AP tests and am still starting college with 6 hours without taking a single college course. For some kids, the whole AP test thing is completely pointless.</p>
<p>Self-identified as (Verbal Math)
American Indian or Alaskan Native 489 493
Asian, Asian-American, or Pacific Islander 511 580
Black or African-American 433 431
Hispanic or Latino Background:<br>
Mexican or Mexican-American 453 463
Puerto Rican 460 457
Latin American, South American,
Central American, or
Other Hispanic or Latino 463 469
White 532 536
Other 495 513
No Response 511 525</p>
<p>From 2005</p>
<p>mkm56: That I do. My own school disgusts me to no end sometimes. If we all came on CC weād be flamed off the boards. Lol. And in case anyoneās wonderng, I attend(ed) a 99.9% Asian high school.</p>