college question

[phatj]

1750? i thought it was out of 1600. are we talking about the same sat?

 

[PrinceofWands]

It isn't hard to get into college. If you can pay, you can usually get in somehow. I had a cumulative gpa in high school of .012 and yet have never been turned down by a college I applied to. Granted, I brought my gpa up in community college first, and had very good test scores, but still.

 

[HombrePequeno]

I go to UW currently which I think is a pretty decent school. It still surprises me how many retards go here. One of my friends was so excited because he finally got above a 3.5 which he never did throughout high school. He's also not one of those people that had a sh!tty GPA but high SATs to make up for it.

 

[LongCoolMother]

A little more than 1750 will likely be good enough for many of the UCs... Irvine, Santa Barbara, and Davis even-- assuming your HS grades are very good, and your classes are challenging. CSUs are easily within your reach with that score. Still, it all depends on the rest of your application.

That being said, you should aim higher than 1750. Its not a horrendously terrible score, but you would have to score higher for more reassurance/leverage when applying to colleges, which are becoming far more competitive.


EDIT: For Reference, I scored pretty low my first time on the SATI. After a bit of preparation, i scored 2200 on SATI. And for SATII (which I didnt prepare for), 780 Physics, 740 Math, 710 US History. Those scores got me into UCLA and UC Berkeley, UC Irvine (with merit-based full tuition paid). I currently go to UC Berkeley. The range of scores that people have here is huge. Some scored significantly higher than I did-- and some lower. Most, if not all, had near perfect grades with the most rigorous courses offered in their High Schools, however.

 

[saymyname]

Is this the same as basically getting 583 on each section back in the day?

 

[Syringer]

UC's do not practice affirmative action no matter what you guys think. That is the reason why out of a campus of 25,000+ undergrads at UCLA, under 100 blacks were admitted as freshmen this year, compared to at least 5-6 times that number back when it was in place.