I thought Top 10 Percent got into State Schools Automatically? Hell don't Valedictorians get free Tuition at State Schools? Rocket River
1450...I aced the math but as with everyone who aren't valedictorians or nerds/geniuses, I had trouble with the verbal part. Some girl from my school got a perfect 1600 I think. She's at harvard or yale majoring in some stupid liberal arts major now. I think I was in the top 10% of my high school though. Where I come from, SATs aren't as important as SAT II's. The SAT II's are more indicative of how much a student knows because it's got specialized topics instead of just "math" or "verbal". I'm from California so I don't know how Texas deals with the SAT II's.
Interesting, I aced the verbal but completely and utterly botched the math. Nerd/genius hardly. I've never understood how so many people claim that the verbal part is harder.
GPA merely shows how hard/much you work. EDIT: Not trying to slam Big Moe in any way. Just pointing that out...
I was the valedictorian in high school, and found it pretty tough to get academic scholarships. I had a solid SAT score, also. Now if I were a *chosen* minority (ie not asian or indian, because they don't *count*), it would have been a piece of cake.
How can you be serious? All those damned analogies! Math was a cake walk for me...but then again I'm a CS major so I'm good at math whether I like it or not
I'd say take the SAT again as soon as POSSIBLE. It's not too late right? This year is just gettin into the swing of things... Maybe you should try going for a "serious" scrore this time. I think that'd probably help alot... you can send the scores to all those schools you're interested in, and I think it'd probably also help to have higher scores to show anyone giving out scholarships...
i'm not exactly sure what schools get it, but if you're in houston go for the Jones Scholarship. 5 people got it in our school every year and it's worth 12k over 4 years. I didn't realized valedictorians got first year tuition waver. i was salutatorian (lets not go into why i wasn't 1st) and me and the valed. just got $1000 from the Temple Inland Foundation. i got other scholarships that were worth more than a full ride to UT so it all worked out. but i'd go for jones if you can, i would think the valed would get one of the five. man how can anyone think verbal is easier than math? in one of the strangest things that ever happened to me, i actually got higher on the verbal than on math b/c i missed one on math by misreading the damn question and realizing it 5 seconds before the test ended and couldn't change it. my verbal was way behind math when i took it in 7th grade and on the PSAT. then bam. oh well, back to the thread.
I always do better in the verbal portions of tests than in the math or quantitative portions of any given test. Always. There are people who are simply better at language-related problems than they are with math-related problems.
How does the 4.0, or whatever, gradescale work? I think I used to know, but I forgot. I just know I got about a 105 GPA, though that was from late last year and I'm taking more weighted classes. I need to start taking all these tests to help me out. I'm like 3 or 4 full points ahead of the next highest GPA in my class, so I'll probably get the valedictorian if I don't screw up. I just need to take all these tests that seem important. I already took the PSAT early last year, as a sophmore with basically freshman knowledge, and IIRC got something that would have been like a 1090-11something or other. I think I read I should take it again this year, as a Junior, but I also hear a lot about taking the SAT and ACT. I need to get together with my counselor sometime. I know the valevictorian from my school a couple years back got a Coca-Cola scholarship and got like 20K or something like that. Too bad he wasted it when he decided to show everyone he was gay and wanted to be with his boyfriend instead of college...or something crazy like that. BTW, I wasn't trying to "self-promote" myself. I was just trying to explain my situation. edit: You can take the PSAT as a 7th grader? Man, wish I knew about these things. I remember my English teacher asking us the other day if anyone had taken the SAT in the summer, and no one had, and she acted like we were all behind or something.
I dropped out of high school, but now I'm on my way to Kelley School of Business in Indiana...there's no way you're gonna tell us you can't get into A&M if you're a valedictorian.
Rocket River. You are right. I SUPPOSE you can go to any public Texas college if you are in the top 10% of your class. BUT BIG MOE is wanting a scholarship for four years or something...financial aid. And I don't know. Valedictorian with a 1100?!? What school is that?
Aced the math...sucked it up on the verbal. Stupid effing verbal. What really pissed me off is when one of the words in the analogy was some fancy, high-falutin word I'd never seen before. I guess I'm stupid because I didn't memorize the whole dictionary. Needless to say, I majored in engineering.
I got a 1500 and wasn't in the top half of my high school. They measure different things. One is intelligence, the other is work ethic.
I highly doubt the SAT is a good indication of intelligence. With preparation, anyone can get a good score. I've known multiple people who got around 1300 the first time they took the SAT, then took the Kaplan SAT prep class over the summer, and got 1500 or higher the next time they took the test. Ok, back to the thread now.
