<p>Great article!</p>
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<li>The number of travelers which reached the Americas, by accident or design, well before Columbus is enormous, if we are to believe every claim. No error</li>
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<p>I still don’t get this one. I know which or that have to be used for objects and who is used for people, but shouldn’t which/that be correct over who since a “number” is an object? </p>
<p>Any help would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>@Silverturtle May I ask where you ended up going to college? Just curious where a 2400’er (yes, I just made that a noun) chooses to go to college.</p>
<p>Your box is full and I can’t get chanced! :L</p>
<p>@Silverturtle (or anyone else) do you have any tips for a high school senior, who wants to go to med school, who’s checking out colleges? Such as what factors to consider? Any ones that you recommend?</p>
<p>Great article!</p>
<p>Any update on the book’s progress?</p>
<p>OMG. lifesaver. you are my favorite person!</p>
<p>Hey Silver! Do you think the best time to take the SAT is in Dec. or Jan.?</p>
<p>Any one has the web link to Silverturtle’s guide in pdf format? The one in the first few pages of this thread is not working. Thanks.</p>
<p>download it from this link </p>
<p>[silverturtle's</a> guide to sat and admissions success.pdf - 4shared.com - document sharing - download](<a href=“http://www.4shared.com/office/MhNoyyk6/silverturtles_guide_to_sat_and.html]silverturtle’s”>http://www.4shared.com/office/MhNoyyk6/silverturtles_guide_to_sat_and.html)</p>
<p>I read the whole damn thing. It took longer than the Iphone terms and conditions.</p>
<p>Haha I’ll write my own guide when I bring my 1700 up to a 2400… ;)</p>
<p>Silverturtle </p>
<p>When you publish your admissions guide, may I suggest that you include this question and answer:</p>
<p>I got a letter or an email from the coach at Notre Dame / Dartmouth / Kenyon / Tufts / (name the school). Does that mean that Im sure to get in at that school, or likely to get an athletic scholarship?</p>
<p>Sorry, no. The email or letter from the coach means little more than the post card you get from a schools admissions office after you take the SAT or PSAT. Coaches send out thousands of these emails or letters, collecting names from many sources. High school coaches get mailings from every college under the sun, asking if they want to recommend a player. Some coaches will fill these out willy-nilly. They have a smart basketball player (80th in a class of 500) who is the third best player on his team? They may recommend him to Dartmouth and Brown (in his mind, the Ivy League basketball teams arent that great). I can remember when I was in college in the football staff office, and looking through some of these forms sent by high school coaches. I could clearly see that they were recommending kids who based on their size and 40-yard-dash times, didnt stand a chance at playing in the Ivy League. My roommate was doing the mailings as a work study, and was told to mail to anyone whose form reported a minimum academic profile.</p>
<p>Kids who email the coach or fill out the online form on the athletic web iste also are added to these lists. Alumni recommend kids and they are added to these mailing lists.</p>
<p>The first step to truly being recruited usually begins with a phone call from the coach or a coach shaking your hand at a summer event. That is only the beginning of the trail, however. Coaches evaluate recruits carefully. They court many, and dump most. </p>
<p>Also, bear in mind that Division III schools give out no athletic scholarships, nor do the Ivy League schools. The coaches at these schools have a limited number of admissions slots reserved for their team (athletes that they can get past admissions who they want and meet certain academic parameters), and these slots are coveted.</p>
<p>I just read one of your explanations for a question silver turtle. I saw how I just memorized basic grammatical patterns and structures without delving deep enough into them.</p>
<p>The ACT/SAT is literally testing the same concept every time for grammar, and you have to follow the basic rules 100% as they exist. My ACT English sub scores were 17/18 for Grammar and much lower for Rhetoric (I still managed a 30). </p>
<p>What would be the best way to improve my rhetorical questions so I can improve my score? Is it likely that there were patterns between them that I may have not realized?!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot</p>
<p>Great guide. Extremely helpful.</p>
<p>great! worked for me.</p>
<p>Hopefully silverturtle comes back on soon so I can ask for the self-chancing tool… =P</p>
<p>Good! It is useful!</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Could you post your Excel tool that’s designed to calculate a rough percentage chance for a given top school?</p>
<p>It says that your PM message box is full…</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>