So Much Love, So Few Spots

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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:54:03 +0000

When I first took the PSATs oh so many years ago, I scored a 1700. After 6 months of 2-3 hours/day of self studying, I raised it to a 2330(in 1 sitting) when I took the real test. Did I get any smarter? Probably not. Did I study my butt off? You bet

I took a prep class as well, but it was mostly a waste of time. The only useful things I picked up were some test taking “tricks”, which I’m sure were available free on the internet.

As for standardized testing, it is absolutely essential for grad schools with no prerequisite curriculum such as Law. It’s not really fair to compare the GPA of a phychology major at Umass Boston to say an Electrical Engineer at MIT. According to stats of previous applicants each raw question(out of 100) is worth roughly the same as 0.1 of your GPA. It’s kinda gross actually…