<p>not to mention my parents who think my life depends on the SATs. I really do hate the SATs, which is preventing me from studying for them. I feel like doing something bad to ETS. There’s no way I’ll study for SATs and succumb to the hegemony of ETS, but I have to and need to. Any advice?</p>
<p>What you need is motivation, and waht motives us to study hard for school and study for SAT’s is getting the stats necessary to get into the college we want to. Go to the chances threads, look at the SAT scores and see how scrutinized they are and how important they are. You can have a 4.0 uw but if you go to some ****ty school where getting an A is cake and then your sat score is a 1800 you f’ked for all top 30 schools. The SAT is a test that is “equal” or fair for everyone since difficulty of school and types of classes arent in the mix to affect it. The SAT is a very important portion of admissions and if you score low and ur a senior realizing your SAT holds you down, then u will care alot and will want ot study alot and then itll be too late.</p>
<p>wow thanks that helped a lot. before you posted, i stood a 0% chance of acceptance into the top schools. now, you increased it to 50%</p>
<p>I don’t care what anyone says, sats/act are THE most important aspect of college admissions.</p>
<p>SATs are the most unfortunate thing to come across my life at this point, but just think of it this way: you want to get into the college of your choice, so you’re going to have to play the game, which means studying and working for things that you may not necessarily care about. For me, I’ve been playing the game for three years now, only one more year to go…</p>
<p>Just sit down and start taking a few practice tests. Hopefully you’ll see an upward trend in your scores, boosting your confidence (and motivating you).</p>
<p>Yeah, I think college officials take the SAT most into consideration. They’ll tell you that the SAT is only “one part of your application,” but I bet they give a huge weight towards the SAT. I mean, just look at the Ivies and other top schools. What makes them “elite”? Looking at their average SAT scores will send chills down your spine. Am I right? So basically, they want high SAT scorers to make their school look good.</p>
<p>Basically, the SATs are a 4 hour test that holds equal weight to your GPA. The reason it is so important to do well, is because a GPA can be built over 4 years of work. The SATs decide your fate in 4 hours. While a top SAT does not help majorly into getting into top schools, getting sub-par ones will keep you out of them.</p>
<p>Look at the SAT’s as a game that you need to win (sounds corny I know).</p>
<p>“I don’t care what anyone says, sats/act are THE most important aspect of college admissions.”</p>
<p>Cmon guys - you dont really think that, do you?</p>
<p>If you were in charge of admitting a class to your school, would you place the most weight on Cumulative GPA or SAT/ACT? Of course it would be cumulative GPA. Consider that Cumulative GPA comes from at least 3 years of school, but the SAT/ACT from only a single morning.</p>
<p>However, if you are applying to a large public university then it will hold some weight b/c they have so many apps to sift through.</p>
<p>I know it sounds weird, but if you can look at the SAT as a game - that you are trying to beat the SAT writers - you will do fine on the SAT. Largely, students who are able to look at the SAT as a game do fantastic on the SAT because they are not scared of it. </p>
<p>Have you ever played someone in a sport and was told that your opponent or opposing team was virtually unbeatable? You believed it and lost, but then after the match you thought to yourself, why did everyone tell me they were so tough? I could have beaten them had I not been under the misimpression that they were a better team than mine.</p>
<p>The same thing can be said about many things in life, including the SAT. Prepare for it, and when you are sitting at the test, try to beat the SOBs that write the test, and you will be able to, but if you are scared of not doing so well on the SAT, then you will not score well.</p>
<p>I remember watching Shaq shoot free throws the night before one of the playoffs last year he shot something like 43 of the 50 I watched. The next day during the match, he hit 3 of 12!! If Shaq could have seen free-throws as a game, not a “if I miss this, we lose” he would have performed better.</p>
<p>I never thought of the SAT as a game. I thought of it as an alternative to spending hours and hours doing crappy ECs. W00t.</p>
<p>SATs are boring as hell, but you have to take them if you want to go to college. Three times won’t kill you.</p>