<p>When I look at Duke’s minimum SAT score(690 in each section), what does that really equate to? That can’t be the minimum because it wouldn’t make sense for a college to even take people who had a 2100. Do I need to get a 2200 if I want to think of getting into Duke?</p>
<p>I might be heading somewhere closer like the University of South Carolina(Honors, which is a lot harder to get into and ranks quite high in many categories), but I still want to aim for Duke-high.</p>
<p>That’s the lower bound of their middle 50%. 25% of students scored lower than that. Nonetheless, I would aim at the higher bound of their middle 50%.</p>
<p>I’m #1 in my class and don’t want to get screwed over the SAT. I’m so confident on math, I enjoy doing math problems and love every minute of it because I feel like I’m attacking a helpless victim that can do nothing about it(except some hard problems). </p>
<p>My Vocab is full of words that I’ve seen before and then get a feeling that I wished I looked it up or remembered something about it. Critical reading is clogged by my analytical brain. Writing is just like math in that there is only one right answer and a step by step process to get it. </p>
<p>I’ve got 3 months to memorize the Barron’s words. It’s not just memorizing though; thinking of ways to remember individual words isn’t enough, you have to really put them to long term memory use. My study method includes going over the first material and to where I left off and I keep on doing that, but with 3500 words, it will be a challenge!</p>