Why are Cal SAT scores low?

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Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:34:47 +0000

Posting a thread with a misleading, controversial title with the intent of attracting more attention is not likely to get you helpful responses. I’m not sure why you would think that this is a good idea, and this is not indicative of a healthy attitude.

In any case, we have no idea whether or you will be “smarter” than most people at Cal, for the standard definition of “smart” (which I am not a fan of). SAT stops being relevant once you start here, and eventually so does being a spring admit.

How much you’ll have to study will depend on 1) your study habits, 2) the difficulty of the classes you take, and 3) your innate intelligence. You should only worry about 1) and 2), as worrying about 3) (what this thread seems to be about) is not useful as you can’t even change it. If you don’t deal well with stress, then you should take a fairly light courseload (three classes plus a seminar would do) your first semester to test things out and then go from there.