Hey guys! I am exchange student from S.korea. Frankly, I am going to expand my high school year in PA. But now I am exchange student ,and on next week I have to take a SAT test in school. It is mandatory. First of all, I supposed to be a sophomore. but, b/c of stupid agency and school rule now, I am junior… I know it is not important.
I am not prepared for test and I know most of university that I want to go require whole scores that I took.
If I gonna take this test, I am pretty sure that I got a poor grade on this.
what should I do…?
Can you take it, then go online and cancel your score immediately? I believe if you cancel your score before actually receiving the score, it will not show up as ever having been taken.
Yes, you can cancel until the Wednesday after the test.
You are allowed to take the SAT as many times as you want. Just treat the test at your high school as a practice, and do the best you can. Next year, you will have the chance to take it a second, or even third, time, if you want. Most colleges only require you to submit your best score.
Good luck!
I would not recommend canceling your score. If you can’t see the score, you’ll never know how you need to improve for next time.
@BrownHopeful27 - that’s what practice tests are for. It’s not great to have a crappy, unprepared test on your record (for colleges that require all scores).
@BrownHopeful27, many schools require you to send all your scores. This student is a foreign exchange student and a sophomore, and feels he/she will not perform well on the SAT at this point. So canceling the score may be a good choice so that he/she does not have one poor score on the score report. Yes, you can take it as many times as you want, but for many schools, you really don’t want a long list of SAT scores on your score report (or your transcript, as is the standard in many places). Taking it once when he/she is better prepared and may get a decent score, then using that to know how to improve for next time, makes sense to me.
Yeah, the best for you is to cancel your scores. Sometimes if you did poorly on the test with a low score and then with enough preparation you get a high score, TCB would probably flag your scores. As @marvin100 said, cancel your scores and then when you feel prepared take it.
There are lots of schools that don’t require SAT scores so in then end even if you perform poorly you will still have many schools to choose from. Also, if you are an exchange student, colleges will know that you are not a native English speaker and probably won’t hold you to the same standard as American students, especially on the CR and W sections
@reasonsat - Also, if you are an exchange student, colleges will know that you are not a native English speaker and probably won’t hold you to the same standard as American students, especially on the CR and W sections
This is demonstrably untrue, at least for selective colleges.
Well obviously places like Harvard and Yale have enough international applicants that they can limit themselves to applicants with extremely high scores, but I don’t get the feeling that the OP is aiming for those schools. I am certainly no expert when it comes to admissions so this is all just based on my impression of things, but my sense is that for schools that don’t have as many applicants and that want to maintain diversity and have a balance of international students, that they would necessarily have slightly different standards for those students, especially with regard to the CR and W sections. In fact I know that some schools have different standardized testing requirements for international students (such as not requiring the SAT or ACT or not requiring the Subject Tests).
@reasonsat - I’m not just talking about super-selectives like H and Y, but also like places like Penn State, the UCs, and UIUC.
(I’m a teacher and former college counselor in Seoul, fwiw)
I am a little of surprised by that and would love to hear other people’s opinions on it. I am not saying you are wrong @marvin100, but I am just curious what others have to say about it.
I taught and tutored in Thailand for 4 years and I continue to work with international students and I have definitely seen a fair number of them get admitted to good schools with subpar CR and W scores, especially when the M scores were high. I have seen this too with the GMAT and business school admissions, with non-native English speakers being admitted to top schools with very high Quant scores and not so great Verbal scores.
And I also know some admissions consultants and was recently tutoring an international student who was being helped by one of these consultants (a very experienced one actually) and she advised that we focus on the Math section and not worry about the CR and W even though his scores were 550 on Math and below 500 on CR and W. He was applying to study engineering at places like Purdue, Virgina Tech, and a handful of other schools.
Its just hard for me to believe that admissions committees would hold an applicant from, say, Vietnam or Honduras or some place like that to the same standard as an American student on the CR and W sections (unless even mid-level schools have so many applicants from all of these countries that they have plenty who have high CR and W scores). Maybe that is actually the case, especially from a place like South Korea? Maybe it depends on the country from which you are applying and what that pool of applicants is like?
Again I don’t have any expertise with admissions and this is just what I have gleaned over the years from tutoring, but I am really curious to know what other people think (especially anyone with admissions experience) because it actually impacts what I do. As with the above case, if I am tutoring an international student who has a high Math score but subpar CR and W scores (which is often the case), it would impact what I chose to focus on with that student.
It’s definitely the case for students from South Korea, like the OP. Applicants from under-represented nations may be treated differently.
It may also be worth noting that schools like Purdue and VA Tech are more likely than their wealthier counterparts to use international students as revenue sources.
Hmm, interesting. This is all food for thought.