<p>I knew I was going to get this response but I have already went through the Blue Book and many other administered tests… I am just going through the Barron’s book because of it’s apparently extensive and thorough review.</p>
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<p>My children are attending a new school. This year was the very first graduating class. Out of 47 graduates, 7 were NM semifinalists. Very few top school admissions overall. I found myself wondering if the fact that it is a unknown school could be a detriment. Also, how is a school’s historic data on acceptances known? I didn’t realize that for example Princeton would know if a particular high school has sent any students to top tier schools other than Princeton (and apparently draw conclusions from that about the high school.) Would they know acceptances or only attendance rates?</p>
<p>Your the man Silverturtle, if I ever adopt a turtle I will name it after you. :)</p>
<p>I need some advice on the SAT Math level 2, I took it and got a 540. I’m not terrible at math but I probally didn’t do so well because I never learned a lot of the info. What would you recommend I study from and is a 150 point increase feasible? Also if I were to get a dramatic increase would colleges look down on my 540?</p>
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<p>The historical acceptances at a high school are more indicators than causal agents. That is, a strong high school will tend to send about the same number of people each year, and a weak one will tend not to send any. But admissions officers (usually) don’t consciously use past figures to decide how many they will admit this year from a given high school. Admissions officers, because they are assigned to specific regions, are often roughly familiar with the quality of most major high schools in their regions.</p>
<p>For new high schools, admissions officers spend even more time to understand the context of a student’s achievements. In such cases, they are very likely to call the high school to better understand the quality of the students on average, the grading standards, the extracurricular offerings, and so on. Also, seven NMSF is quite a lot for a class of 47, so that alone will indicate to admissions officers that they are dealing with a strong high school.</p>
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<p>What is your math background? Math Level 2 covers some pre-calculus material. If you have not yet taken that class but are close to it, self-studying the additional material is a good idea. If this is not feasible, though, Math Level 1 is your best bet. If you are able to master the Level 2 material (Sparknotes has some good free review online), getting 800 is realistic if you are good at math.</p>
<p>If you improve dramatically, the 540 will likely be dismissed. Also, for schools that participate in Score Choice, you can simply elect to hide that 540 and colleges will never know.</p>
<p>I got a 610 on world history but I dont want to retake the exam
Will colleges notice it?</p>
<p>^ If you retake and increase your score, you should use Score Choice to hide the 610 from whatever schools allow that option. For other schools, the lower score will likely have little to no effect.</p>
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I believe that’s misleading. I don’t think any college requires or even wants you to send all your SAT II scores. College policies regarding score choice only apply to SAT I scores.</p>
<p>@crazybandit Now your comment is what’s misleading. Plenty of schools require all SAT II scores. Here’s Columbia, for example:</p>
<p>In addition to either the SAT or ACT, you must also take two SAT Subject Tests. For Columbia College, you may take any two; for Columbia Engineering, you must take any mathematics test and either Physics or Chemistry. Students must submit all SAT Subject Test scores from all test dates.</p>
<p>Amazing guide silverturtle. I only skimmed through it, but I will definitely read it in greater detail when I take the SAT for the final time in October. Also, on an unrelated note, it’s quite the coincidence that we both registered on the same month in the same year, and we’re both from Illinois. I know it’s kind of trivial but I just kept noticing it and never really felt like mentioning it until now.</p>
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<p>No. Several schools clearly indicate that the policy applies to Subject Tests as well, and those that don’t specify have indicated that it does indeed apply to Subject Tests when I inquired.</p>
<p>I have heard that the ACT can replace both the SAT and subject tests. Is that true?</p>
<p>Perhaps some could apply the newly discovered strategies to help this fellow member:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/956671-math-question.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/956671-math-question.html</a></p>
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This is often true, but you have to the ACT with the Writing component, and even then you still might have to take the subject tests for some universities.</p>
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<p>United States NA population: approx 1.5%</p>
<p>Harvard NA population: 1.5%
Yale NA population: 1%
Princeton NA population: <1%
Brown NA population: 1%
Columbia NA population: <1%
Penn NA population: 1%
Dartmouth NA population (keep in mind that this school was made for Native Americans): 4%
Cornell NA population: <1%</p>
<p>So that’s not completely true. (I’m using class of 2013 data, these might be a tiny bit off)</p>
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<p>Yor datum is incorrect. The actual percentage is .8.</p>
<p>There are 4.1 million Native Americans in the United States registered with a tribe and many more who aren’t. That statistic is only taking into account people who are only Native American and isn’t accounting for those who are multiracial but identify as Native American.</p>
<p>Great guide, thanks for taking the time to make it :).</p>
<p>Sorry if this has already been asked, but is there a pdf/printable version anywhere? Thanks.</p>
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<p>We don’t know how colleges are reporting the statistic. Moreover, the numbers are so coarsely rounded that the comparison is not very scientific. I will concede that Native Americans appear to not be hugely over-represented in the same way that Asians are, but their degree of under-representation (if any) is clearly less than that of Hispanics, for example.</p>
<p>Here is a Word version: [Silverturtle’s</a> Guide to SAT and Admissions Success.docx](<a href=“File sharing and storage made simple”>Silverturtle's Guide to SAT and Admissions Success)</p>
<p>PDF version: [Silverturtle’s</a> Guide to SAT and Admissions Success.pdf](<a href=“File sharing and storage made simple”>Silverturtle's Guide to SAT and Admissions Success)</p>
<p>The formatting is a bit off (especially in the grammar section with indenting), though.</p>
<p>Also, I am interested to know where you got that 4.21 million figure, because I cannot find any numbers that are that high. The highest percent that I can find is 1.</p>