@TomSrOfBoston Okay, first off, I think you’re being mistaken about the whole SAT scores and whatnot. Secondly, I know for a fact that I can raise my CR score by 200 points and get around a 1900 or so on the SAT. Since my GPA is almost close above to what NYU expects and if I get an SAT score of a 1900+, I think its safe to say that I have a chance. My safety schools that I mentioned are the ones I know I can get in.
I honestly am not sure about RPI, but MIT is significantly more competitive and rigorous than most other engineering programs. You should visit NYU Poly before making any more decisions about applying to it- for all you know you may hate it.
And to respond to your first question about what I said in the last post, I meant that your SAT score was low in CR and the SAT does assess your abilities in that subject area. It definitely is an indicator of your strengths, it may not be totally reflective of how you will perform in college, but it is undoubtedly not rubbish.
Hey! I was in sort of the same situation at you are in. Let me tell you that practicing the reading material will help you a lot. Also, underlining key components of a passage will help you absorb its main idea. I started at a 500 or so, and got up to 660! Just try to take interest in the material you’re reading. Finally, make sure that you try to memorize the words. Its the only way to ascertain that those words will stick with you.
Lastly, I do I believe that there is some correlation between SAT and GPA. I mean… a 400 CR does not substantiate a high grade in IB English. I’m also a part of that program, and it’s very labor intensive. I feel like the reading material is harder than that of the SAT. Therefore, if you do well in English, a 600 CR shouldn’t be too hard.
There are a number of schools that are test optional. In other words, you do not have to submit SAT scores but instead they rely on your GPA, EC’s, recommendations, and essays to make their judgements about you. I am sure you can use Google to find a list, and there is probably a list on a CC thread somewhere as well. That might be a better route for you than getting fixated on schools that are most likely out of your reach.
You come on here looking for advice, but then you denigrate those who try to give you honest advice and tell them they don’t know what they are talking about. Yet you are a high school senior that really doesn’t have any particular insight or knowledge about admissions while many on CC have been through the whole thing multiple times and have observed hundreds, if not thousands of cases of what works and what doesn’t. It might not make you feel very hopeful if you accept what they say, but you will feel much worse when you have not been accepted to any school to which you have applied if you don’t listen. It is rather childish when people ask for opinions and then just kick and scream when they are told anything but what makes them feel better and lets them keep living in a fantasy bubble.
I am fully aware that writing posts on the internet might not be indicative of a persons abilities, but your original post is alarming in the number of errors it contains. I don’t just mean spelling, but phrases like “more better” and “me and my parents” (should be “I and my parents”, you wouldn’t say “me moved around a lot”) and a lot of poorly constructed sentences. You say it is a fact that you cannot get 500+ on CR but then ask how you can get it to 600 or better. If it is a fact than you cannot get it over 500 then why ask and why yell at people that tell you you cannot do it? Because if you can get it to that level, then it isn’t a fact that you can’t.
I know it sounds like I am picking on you, but I am trying to point out that top schools like NYU and even schools a level down from that like UMass Amherst and most others you name have more students applying every year than they can possibly accept that already have much higher skills in these areas than you seem to. So why would they accept you? Yes, they look at that whole person, but these others are often very attractive to them as whole people who seem far more likely to succeed at their school than what you are presenting to them. Perhaps you are completely right that you would actually perform much better than these tests indicate, but put yourself in their shoes. How do they know that? Why should they take that chance when there are fewer spaces available than students applying that meet ALL their criteria?
I suggest you take a deep breath, quit calling people names, quit assuming others don’t know what they are talking about if it isn’t what you want to hear, and start formulating a strategy for college admissions that will insure you end up at a school where you will be happy. Maybe that means going to a school for a year that you initially find to be a compromise, just to show them you can do college work at a high level. Then you could transfer. Or maybe it means finding a school that fits you better than you think NYU does. You really have little basis for that line of thought, btw. Just glossy PR that all schools generate. The goal is to be in a place 5 years from now where you have a degree in your hand from a school you liked in a field where you want to spend the first part of your career. There is more than one way to get there, and sometimes it isn’t the most direct way for some people. That’s life.
Also, what’s the average sat for NYU Poly?
Google it.
@fallenchemist I guess I’m just being paranoid. For a fact, and I promise you, I will get a 500-600 on CR. Now I know that I said its impossible for me to get a 500 on CR, but I was wrong. At some moments in time, I tell myself that I can’t do it, but then I realize that I’m just wasting my time worrying and telling myself I can’t do X, Y, and Z. And worse to come, I wasted my time criticizing people on their views. And also, if you look at my other post discussing about my SAT and GPA, those are the colleges I want to apply to (titled low SAT scores, but top notch GPA). To come to my conclusion, I think I’ve been worrying too much over the fact that I’m not going to get into college and denigrating people’s opinions. Can we just pretend this never happened and get straight into the fact on some college questions I have?
That sounds more like it! It’s late now but let me give your situation some more thought.