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<p>^ Alright, thank you.</p>
<p>Thank you, silverturtle! This guide is extremely helpful and I admire your insight, especially coming from a rising high school senior.</p>
<p>but problem is I dont wanna retake it.
so even for schools that don’t have score choice option, can I hide it?
Or if I take more than 3 SAT II, will they notice this since it’s taken the summer of my sophomore year?</p>
<p>A grammar question: when a noun ends in a “s”, is its possesive form just an apostrophe after the “s” or an apostrophe with another “s” at the end? I’ve seen it done both ways.</p>
<p>^ I just leave an apostrophe at the end. It looks less…cluttered I guess. But I believe that either way is grammatically correct.</p>
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It varies between sources, but what I do is always to add the 's, unless the word, likely a name, ends with a z-sound, like Charles, in which case I would simply add an apostrophe. “I met the Joneses (family whose last name is Jones) when I stopped by the Jones’ house.” If the s sounds like a normal s, is silent, or otherwise is relatively easy to pronounce with an additional s, I would add the s. But that is just my impression. I don’t think there is a universal rule here. I would say boss’s and Charles’, but some reputable style guides advocate *boss’<a href=“to%20avoid%20the%20triple%20%5Bi%5Ds%5B/i%5D%20I%20guess,%20or%20simply%20because%20the%20word%20ends%20with%20an%20%5Bi%5Ds%5B/i%5D”>/i</a> and *Charles’s<a href=“to%20be%20consistent%20with%20other%20singular%20possessive%20nouns”>/i</a>.</p>
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It depends on the school. Some schools that don’t accept score choice don’t want all your subject test scores, such as NYU; some do, such as Columbia (I realized this only when a poster in the previous page pointed this out). I think the best indication is whether a school requires subject tests in the first place; if it did not, why would it want all your subject test scores?</p>
<p>^^Thanks, your way seems to work well.</p>
<p>can I just secretly take it off and not let the college know it?
how difficult is it for them to find out I cheated?</p>
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<p>I leave the decision to you.</p>
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- While you are on the topic of score choice, I realize some top schools want “all scores”, but what about the “highest section across test dates-version2 <university x=”"> strongly encourages you to submit your score each time you take the SAT. What does that actually mean? Send all scores? Maybe send all scores? Not mandatory to send all scores?
So when you actually go to the collegeboard and start sending scores and you are applying to 10 schools and you only want particular scores to be sent it can be confusing right? Also more costly, right? - I have read alot of your posts and well I don’t know your exact numbers, like SAT and ACT, GPA and where you want to apply. Just curious where you got all your experience if you are actually in the middle of this whole process. Not to take away from the fact that you have put so much time and energy to help others which is outstanding.
- What exactly do you mean by “top schools”? Are we talking top 20? top 30? or just top 10 schools?
- What do you consider a good SAT for a URM? and for what type of school?
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<p>It is not mandatory in such cases; it is merely recommended for the applicant’s benefit.</p>
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<p>I have heard that Score Choice is pretty easy to use. Also, I have never heard of there being a charge for using Score Choice.</p>
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<p>I will PM you.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t consider it to be experience as much as knowledge, though I will PM you on this count as well.</p>
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<p>In writing the admissions portion of the guide, I thought of “top school” as referring to the most selective American colleges (i.e., Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Wharton, MIT, and perhaps a couple more). The story is very similiar, however, for schools that trail closely in selectivity (e.g., UChicago, Brown, Columbia, Duke etc.).</p>
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<p>Questions like this are very difficult to answer because I am forced to invoke thresholds and this denies the continuous reality. But I would say that the URM applicant with solid stats otherwise (e.g., top 5% in class, rigorous courseload with almost all A’s, devoted ECs, a couple leadership roles) will be in good shape with 2200+ and could even be quite competitive with 2100+.</p>
<p>I have only 3 posts so far and you took the time and effort to answer my questions. Again very amazing. Thank you.</p>
<p>Thank you for this, I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Hey Silverturtle
what do you think looks better in a college app
A community college summer class and hospital volunteer hours (100+)
Or
COSMOS, the UC summer program if I am planning to apply for UCLA in two more years?</p>
<p>Quick question: Is it worth self-studying APs in your senior year? As in, if you do well, how will that score benefit you?</p>
<p>Oh, and absolutely amazing thread :] Great job.</p>
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<p>I am not very familiar with that summer program, but I would probably have to say the first option.</p>
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<p>The scores from AP exams that are self-studied in senior year will not benefit you in admissions. You can, however, indicate your intent to self-study on your applications. But the main reason to self-study AP’s during senior year is to receive college credit.</p>
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<p>Another reason you might self-study senior year even for no credit (read: why I did) is to balance out your senior year schedule. By senior year, I had taken or self-studied all of the AP classes at my school, and I was able to convince them to give me several prep periods for the purpose of self-studying AP Physics C. I actually spent most of my time in these periods preparing for Academic Decathlon and Science Olympiad, so it worked out very well.</p>
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<p>Well done, christiansoldier.</p>