<p>One of my friends told me in SH that he got a 1300-something on his SATs. When he said that I went “oooo”, like the noise you would make when someone describes an injury (don’t know how to type it). Was that a jerk move? I know some of the schools he’s aiming for are D1 publics so his scores are actually not good for them. He’ll play football in college so he’s fine education-wise but he’s not D1 good so I felt like he would be upset with his scores, but he didn’t seem to be and I got the sense that he was mad at me for reacting like that. Anyway if you were in that study hall would you think I was being a jerk?</p>
<p>By the way this isn’t really that important I’m just wondering for future reference about things like this.</p>
<p>It depends on the situation. If he was happy/fine with it, kind of. If he was aiming for 1800 then the reaction was appropriate.</p>
<p>The lesson here is to ask someone what they were aiming for before reacting.</p>
<p>Lol that’s pretty awkward. If he said that he thought he would get a really good score then yeah, that was appropriate. If he thinks that his score isn’t bad then it was a harsh, maybe even unnecessary, reaction. I don’t blame ya because that seems like a natural reaction to me lol. When this girl told me that she got a 1400 I was like “oh…” then it was really awkward and I changed subjects</p>
<p>If he’s really your friend, he wouldn’t care less and will take it in jest.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, I had a cringe-inducing situation when I asked, “what’d you get out of 2400 then?” after someone told me their sub-1400 score. I would just apologize casually, ask if everything is cool, and move on w/that friend. If it ever comes up what somebody got, I usually say, “Are you happy with that?” very neutrally. People usually bring up SAT scores to complain or brag, not really to hear your opinion on the score itself.</p>
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LMAO man I wish I was there</p>
<p>i have had one of those situations before…not pretty, not pretty indeed.</p>
<p>…when I told a kid my score, he asked me whether it was “out of two or three sections”. I’m pretty sure the question was just a generic response that he doesn’t understand/care about.</p>
<p>Also, what are you supposed to do when people talk about applying to colleges that they can’t possibly get into? Like random kids with 1500’s applying to Duke.</p>
<p>Actually a bad reaction can make people feel pretty bad. When I told my mom that I got 6 out of 12 on the essay she stared at me completely dumbfounded for literally 30 seconds.</p>
<p>Yeah depending on the situation it really can make them feel pretty bad. Usually a way around the “out of 1600 or 2400?” question is to simply ask what they got on each section.</p>
<p>i have definetly been in awkward situations like that too…i usually ask what they got on each section too…</p>
<p>People who talk about the SAT’s suck in general so whatever</p>