Please Help--Need Advice Regarding SATs ASAP

PennHopeful09
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:38:00 +0000

Okay thanks Zester and dlesk. I know my overall scores are at the average, but isn’t that brought down by athletes and sometimes affirmative action admittees? I was just nervous because I talked to a former admissions officer at Penn and she told me that they looked for a 1450-1600 R/M range. Zester, I know the whole thing is holistic, but I’m not one of those blow-them-away applicants, and because my SAT is about the average for Penn, people have told me I only have like a 40% chance of being accepted because it’s so competitive. I really want to get in and have been trying to figure out something to stand out. Therefore, I figured if they only saw the superscore, I thought why not? If I could bring my superscore up to a 2300 or so than it would take my application from “borderline” to “good chance,” wouldn’t it? And if I did worse, who cares, it wouldn’t hurt me. That’s why I asked. Thanks.