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Originally posted by: PHiuR
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Originally posted by: yobarman
I got into RIT with 1300/1600 which isn't great, but not bad either.
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RIT took kids at my HS with a 1100 and gave pretty good scholarships to boot. Not saying that RIT has low standards... just stating 😛
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they do, I got a 1130 or 1160 with a GPA of 86.25 and RIT took me.
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never took SAT but i got in RIT with a gpa of 3.4 and had participated in a lot of extra curricular activities.
 
Originally posted by: Juno
Originally posted by: PHiuR
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Originally posted by: yobarman
I got into RIT with 1300/1600 which isn't great, but not bad either.
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RIT took kids at my HS with a 1100 and gave pretty good scholarships to boot. Not saying that RIT has low standards... just stating 😛
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they do, I got a 1130 or 1160 with a GPA of 86.25 and RIT took me.
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never took SAT but i got in RIT with a gpa of 3.4 and had participated in a lot of extra curricular activities.
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ACT, or just no standardized test?
 
i got 2280, and i am only in 10th grade. anywho, they made it a lot harder than it used to be. i took it in 8th grade, and it was just the 2 sections, no writing, and all those easy analogies. man, i loved those. free points! now, the math is harder, and there are these hard sentence correction one. the ACT is a lot easier now, it used to be that the ACT was harder than the SAT.
 
Originally posted by: theman
i got 2280, and i am only in 10th grade. anywho, they made it a lot harder than it used to be. i took it in 8th grade, and it was just the 2 sections, no writing, and all those easy analogies. man, i loved those. free points! now, the math is harder, and there are these hard sentence correction one. the ACT is a lot easier now, it used to be that the ACT was harder than the SAT.
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Nice job!
 
Originally posted by: Brackis

I don't particularly like the writing section (assuming it was the same as the SAT2 writing) because of how limiting it is. I consider myself to be a strong writer, but nothing on that test demonstrates that ability. sure, I can get a very good score, but it is very frustrating to see a 10/12 on the essay when this type of essay is so pathetic to begin with; I would compare it to Kevin Garnett losing a 3point contest to a 5' 7" highschool varsity athlete and being called an inferior player. It is essentially testing my ability to write mindless crap in 5 paragraph form. I have not written a tradition 3 pages, 5 paragraph essay in book report form since probably 8th or 9th grade and anyone who thinks that such writing will cut it at real college is in for a big surprise.
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You forgot to capitalize "sure" at the beginning of your third sentence. You also should have used "traditional" in place of "tradition" in your last sentence.

I'm deducting 42 points from this post. Please don't let me see such an outbreak of imperfection again.

Thank you.
 
Don't worry about the SAT. I suck at those sorts of tests. I got a 1280/1600, and that was too low to get the full ride my first couple of years in college. That does suck.

However, I'm one of the top engineers of my class, and I've gone past several near perfect SAT scores. It doesn't gauge everything.
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Brackis

I don't particularly like the writing section (assuming it was the same as the SAT2 writing) because of how limiting it is. I consider myself to be a strong writer, but nothing on that test demonstrates that ability. sure, I can get a very good score, but it is very frustrating to see a 10/12 on the essay when this type of essay is so pathetic to begin with; I would compare it to Kevin Garnett losing a 3point contest to a 5' 7" highschool varsity athlete and being called an inferior player. It is essentially testing my ability to write mindless crap in 5 paragraph form. I have not written a tradition 3 pages, 5 paragraph essay in book report form since probably 8th or 9th grade and anyone who thinks that such writing will cut it at real college is in for a big surprise.
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You forgot to capitalize "sure" at the beginning of your third sentence. You also should have used "traditional" in place of "tradition" in your last sentence.

I'm deducting 42 points from this post. Please don't let me see such an outbreak of imperfection again.

Thank you.
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😱:|:beer::shocked::wine:
 
I got a 2030 myself and got a scholarship from Purdue because of it. Is this your last time taking it? If not, you can always improve. First time I took new SAT, I got a 1970 (June of 2005) and took it again in October and improved 60 points after a bit more studying.
 
My friend visited Stanford this weekend and met a girl who didn't play sports and got in with an 1800 and no math senior year.
 
got a 1390 w/ a 3.95/4.0 gpa

denied by MIT (of course 😀 )
wait listed by CMU

accepted by:
Rose Hulman
CWRU
RPI
Cornell

Went to Cornell and currently work for the Fed Gov't making less than all of my other friends who majored in ECE... but thats not the point of college.

its all about what you make of college... Go to class!!!!! Its no fun graduating like I did feeling all burned out at the age of 22.
 
Super-pricey undergrad is NOT worth it if you're going to grad school.
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Good point....and the grades matter more in undergrad than high school too...

I'm the one who failed...PSAT score 185....hopefully I'll do better on real SAT...will probably retake.....GPA mightly low too....3.3GPA....state school for me 😱

I heard that the ACT is easier...
 
i got a 1440 (out of 1600) That works out to a 90%

Not too shabby... I only applied to UMD, UMBC and Pitt, got full scholarships from all of them and wound up goiing to UMD where I am happy most of the time. I think state schools are perfectly fine for undergrad (especially a pretty darn good state school like UMD) For grad schools I'm looking mainly at Yale, Central St. Martins (part of London's University of the Arts), Carnegie Mellon, and Northwestern.
 
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