Wait, MIT doesn't care about anything but your math score? I got a 750 out of 800-- but isn't their average even higher than that? I should've applied!!!! The math SAT seems too easy to give so much weight to.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm looking more towards the upper tier schools, probably just below the Ivy League range. I know I won't be able to get in with the 1900 I got on the SATs, but I'll be retaking those sometime later. Hopefully I'll be getting somewhere around a 2000 the second time around. Some schools I'm looking at though are NYU, UPenn, Columbia, BC, and UCLA (longshot).</div> Ah, so you're looking at urban schools? All of those colleges are in the heart of a major U.S. city. I personally love the city, but I would hate to spend my four years in college downtown. That's why I decided to not go to Penn. To each his own though, because those are all great schools academically. (You realize that Penn and Columbia are Ivy's btw, right? Kind of threw me off with that 'just below the Ivy League range' comment.) Honestly, those schools all seem like reaches with your current scores, even if you improved your scores by 100 points, but like I said earlier, American schools take into consideration a variety of factors, not just test scores. What are your grades like? If they're strong enough, you can still be a legitimate candidate with those test scores. <div class="quote_poster">Chuck Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Wait, MIT doesn't care about anything but your math score? I got a 750 out of 800-- but isn't their average even higher than that? I should've applied!!!! The math SAT seems too easy to give so much weight to.</div> Well, they're a technical college, so they usually give preferrence to students who are inclined in the maths and sciences. They're the most selective college in America though, so a 750 far from guarantees you admission, especially when they get thousands of applicants with perfect or near perfect scores, especially on the SATII's, which are important for M.I.T.'s admissions board in particular. In fact, I think I heard their average accepted early action applicant had around a 780 on the SAT's math section. M.I.T. also places more emphasis than any other school out there on student talent. That means things like winning national science fairs, building or maintaining some sort of piece of complicated technology, or winning the national math bowl. You also have to consider that M.I.T. has more international applicants than most colleges. I don't think though, just going off of your online personality, that you'd enjoy M.I.T. I hated it when I visited it. Everyone there looks like they haven't been out in the sun in the past year, and they're all very arrogant, socially akward pricks. Who the **** wants to go to a school like that?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Voodoo:</div><div class="quote_post">Ah, so you're looking at urban schools? All of those colleges are in the heart of a major U.S. city. I personally love the city, but I would hate to spend my four years in college downtown. That's why I decided to not go to Penn. To each his own though, because those are all great schools academically. (You realize that Penn and Columbia are Ivy's btw, right? Kind of threw me off with that 'just below the Ivy League range' comment.) Honestly, those schools all seem like reaches with your current scores, even if you improved your scores by 100 points, but like I said earlier, American schools take into consideration a variety of factors, not just test scores. What are your grades like? If they're strong enough, you can still be a legitimate candidate with those test scores. </div> Yeah, I forgot Penn's an Ivy... I don't know, urban schools just seem much more appealing to me. Personally I enjoy spending my time in cities much more where you don't have to drive everywhere just to get around. Its probably hype, but there just seems to be more things to do in the city as compared to the suburbia's of the US. Basically Penn, Columbia, and UCLA I consider to be long shots since I realize there's perhaps thousands more out there with higher scores and better grades applying to those same schools. Well, currently my extra curricular's decent. I'm in the National Honors Society (high grades school service kind of thing), Key Club (community service), volunteering at a hospital, track, cross country, and intramural basketball. My grades are pretty decent, around the 3.8-3.9 GPA range but I'm taking a fair amount of AP classes (3 this year, 4 next).
