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If /sci/ is so smart, what were your SAT scores?

>> No.7457288

IQ: 127
SAT: 1650
SAT is rote memorization and doesn't require understanding of the material. It's almost as bad as HS.

>> No.7457291

>>7457288
That's an opinion.

>> No.7457293

>>7457279
Didn't take it, but I got a 33 on my ACT.

>> No.7457297

>>7457279

2320

>> No.7457300

>>7457288
yeah i wonder why you think that lmao

1990 here, both times i took it

>> No.7457304

Got a 1600 on SAT but got straight As freshman year of college. Cleary there is no correleation from my end.

>> No.7457307

>>7457279
IQ: 132
ACT: 33
SAT: 2130

I'm a poorfag, so getting a full ride through National Merit was nice

>> No.7457324

>using an american test on an international board as a measure of anything
I bet you actually use imperial units and that retarded way of writing dates that the americans use.

>> No.7457353

>>7457279
1490 in old SAT.

>> No.7457359

>>7457288
No one asked for your IQ.
I can see why you got a 1650.

>> No.7457360

2370. I also got 800's on Math 2, Physics, Chem, and 780 on U.S. History

>> No.7457361

>>7457304
>freshman year
lel

>> No.7457386

1890 the first time I took it
1890 the second time
1860 the third time
The national average is really low.

>> No.7457391

1600, back when 1600 was highest

>> No.7457394

>>7457386
Average is 1497

>> No.7457396

>>7457386
Why'd you tske it three times?

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7457398

>>7457279

630

>> No.7457400
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7457400

only took it once

>> No.7457402

1650 1st time
2320 the 2nd time during my first year in community college

It didn't help at all for transferring, but at least it made me feel better.

>> No.7457410

>>7457398
Thanks for making us all feel better.

>> No.7457413
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>>7457410

No problem mate

>> No.7457415

>>7457396
It was basically free at our school, so it couldn't really hurt.
I didn't think it was a particularly good score, but everyone else said it was.

>>7457394
Yeah, I assume it's because of all the states that have mandatory attendance for it, therefore people who don't really care about it at all will take it and drop the score greatly. I mean 1497 is really low.

>> No.7457421

>>7457279
>SAT
kek, 2310

nobody cares about that anymore. show your fucking GRE subject scores

>> No.7457431

>>7457402

Jeez, 1600 was the max when I took it way back in the day. Made a 1520.

>> No.7457449

>>7457288
what >>7457300 said, you're stupid. SAT isn't memorization, it's entirely trivial.

also what the fuck, why are you asking for SAT scores, this is a 18+ board

>> No.7457453

>>7457402
Bullshit. The SAT is impossible to raise by that much. That's why it's such a good indicator for IQ.

>> No.7457478

>>7457279
1,0000000000,0000000000,0,000,000,000.59

>> No.7457492

>>7457453
in high school i cheated my way through geometry and didn't do any homework. i ended up getting a C, then I didn't go to class very much for algebra 2 or pre-calc, or did any homework and pulled a C and a C-, respectively

i knew almost no math and i didn't read very much, so my other scores were dogshit, too.

i read basic mathematics by Serge Lang and that alone got me an 800. i read a bit more during my free time and I ended up with that score. sorry to shatter your delusions, I guess

>> No.7457537

>>7457492
>sorry to shatter your delusions, I guess

lolwhat, until this sentence I thought you were agreeing with him.

>> No.7457542

>>7457288
>assessing reading passages that you've never seen before and basic math make up 75% of the test
>rote memorization

>> No.7457593

PSAT, during sophomore? HS (I think everyone took it in school #forfree): something like 98th percentile, they gave me some "Good Job Kid" paper for that one. A particularly bright peer or two went on to some other tier of testing, but I did not.

Old SAT, took exactly once: 1460/1600, even 730/730 split on math and durr word games. Again, I remember this as ~98th percentile at the time.

(old I guess) ACT: 31/36. Also took exactly once. Sectional breakdown was something like 32 word association bit, 31 math, 29? reading-ish bit, 28 science "lol read graphs" bit.

I didn't study much for either one, just a day or two beforehand to get certain details right (periods of functions come to mind), and I was satisfied with both so I didn't see any reason to re-take, esp. the SAT which had the hazard of dragging down with a bad re-take IIRC.

I completed a math major with a shit GPA and am currently NEET, kek

>> No.7457649

>>7457593
Where did you study math?

>> No.7457682

1600.
>all these underage faggots who took it when it was 2400 points

>> No.7457694

>>7457415
It wasn't. I got a 1860 and it's about average for the UCs, you need 2000 to stand out at all

>> No.7457695

1690 here

>> No.7457729

>>7457288
time to wrap up half the threads on here guys, the IQ myth is debunked

>> No.7457739

>>7457682
>writing section added in 2005
Dude, the first people to take SAT out of 2400 are about 26-27 now.

Also, 2150 (700R, 740M, 710W, yeah I know my math score was shit) for me. Not great, but I got into Berkeley for engineering.

>> No.7457748

>>7457398
>Answered one question

>> No.7457751

>>7457279
2080, I cant remember what the individual section scores were though, that was a long time ago

>> No.7457752

>>7457279
Highest was:
2360. 800 M 800 CR 760 WR

>> No.7457759
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7457759

Poorfag, so no fancy prep courses. Studied my ass of for a month for the SAT. Didn't study as intensively for ACT, looked up how to properly use semi colons and colons the night before and that was about it.

>notevenmad.jpg

Yes, I'm illiterate.

>> No.7457766

>implying the sat/act mean anything

>> No.7457767

>>7457279
Didn't get them :(

Estimates were high though.

>> No.7457770

>>7457759
brandon?

>> No.7457772

>>7457759
Anyone who doesn't get an 800 o Reading is fucking retarded. Read a book nigga.

>> No.7457778

>>7457770
Nope

>> No.7457783

>>7457279
Math: 750
Reading: 800
Writing: 620

800's on Math II, Phys, and Chem.

And then I got rejected/weightlifted at all the schools I applied to except 1. :D

>> No.7457784

>>7457759
>Poorfag, so no fancy prep courses

This is me >>7457752

I had no fancy prep either. The best thing I did was borrow the blue book with 10 tests from the College Board from a friend. I simply took the tests and saw where my weak points were. The writing section is the only one which requires memorization. Reading was always easy for me so that didn't take much work. Math was the issue with me for some reason despite the fact I was good at the subject. I would always get the last few questions wrong. I then discovered that the last few math questions were written cleverly so that you would think that they were asking one question when they were truly asking something else. All it took was for me to read those questions more carefully and WABAH!, an 800.

>> No.7457785

>>7457778
fug

it was a decent guess though, I knew he browses 4chan, did very well on his tests, and is STEM.
Is at berkeley rn actually
good friend of mine before he got expelled for a small project we worked on junior year of high school, haven't seen him since

>> No.7457788

>>7457649

Midwest USA at a respectable but B-tier private university. It's a real university, with on-campus housing, multiple colleges etc, but nothing particularly sexy in science terms ever came from there.

Hint if you care: we maintain (although this is disputable, but don't tell anyone I said that) that it was the first college in the state.

>> No.7457790

2100 (680 CR, 740 M, 680 W)

was a national merit scholar

>> No.7457793

I actually remember all these:

SAT:
760 reading
800 math

SAT II:
780 Math II (Which is like 80th percentile)
720 Math I
800 Chemistry

GRE:
167 reading
170 math

>> No.7457797

>>7457793
800 math 2 is still only like, 92nd percentile.

>> No.7457798

>>7457790
>2100
>was a national merit scholar

U a nigger?

>> No.7457800

>>7457798
National Merit =! National Hispanic =! National Achievement

>> No.7457802

35 on ACT in 2012
didn't take SAT
got a 216 on PSAT as a soph (which is national merit level) then 208 as a junior and didn't make it
now I go to a public school

don't be like me

>> No.7457805

>>7457797

I know, right. Those SAT II tests were so fucking stupid. I resent that I had to take them.

I resent taking the GRE even more. "Here, take this test that's identical to the SAT, except it'll cost you several hundred dollars". It's basically a binary test. You can either score "retarded" or "not retarded" on it.

>> No.7457811

>>7457800
>=!

I forgot, what does that stand for?

>> No.7457816

>>7457304
>Freshman year of his state liberal arts college.

>> No.7457817

>>7457811
Not equal to

>> No.7457823

SAT: 2010, both times
ACT: 35

>> No.7457824

>>7457304
What major?

>> No.7457828

>>7457805
Pretty much. The only SAT II test that I was proud of was the Physics test, since I self studied and took it before I had taken my high school physics class. Even that was basically worthless.

>> No.7457831

>>7457817
Thought so, so whats your point?

>> No.7457839

>>7457831
Race has no weight in qualifications for National Merit

>> No.7457848

>>7457839
Then how did he become with a low score?

>> No.7457857 [DELETED] 

Great job, really. No sarcasm intended.
Shows that anyone can score well with enough effort.

>> No.7457860

>>7457759
Great job, really. No sarcasm intended.
Shows that anyone can do well with enough practice.

>> No.7457864

It depends on what year you are talking about for scores.

>> No.7457876

>>7457864
duh

>> No.7457880

>>7457279
I was so smart, I didn't need to take the SAT

>> No.7457885

1930 first time, 2180 after doing ~7 practice tests. Every one I got wrong I'd look up an explanation for the answer on their website. It was very easy to see what type of criteria they look for in an answer that way.

>> No.7457897

writing-720
English-740
Math-790

>> No.7457914

>>7457880

Had the smarts to be born into a rich, loving family, eh?

(No, I'm being perfectly serious. That really is the smartest thing that you can do. Unless of course you did something else, like live in a different country, go into a trade (not that smart), etc).

>> No.7457918

>>7457914
What do all these scores even mean in terms of the tier of school that you can get in to? What kind of school can one get into with an 1800 score? 2000? 2200? Here in Canada you can get into pretty much any program with a 90-95% average, so what is the 95% average of SATs?
>inb4 2280

>> No.7457928

>>7457279

1050/1600, old SAT

300 Math
790 Reading

have a math learning disability. I went to swarthmore

>> No.7457939

>>7457918
It's kind of a gradient.
At the top tiers, mid-high 2100's won't hinder you, (it'll get you past the most cursory examinations, mixed with high GPA), but it's not gonna for sure get you into a competitive program. 2200-2300 is enough for most of the most selective schools, like Yale (~7%), Stanford (5%), MIT (9%), Berkeley Engineering (9%). 2300-2400 is obviously the highest you can get, and is really a high point on any application. But even that won't guarantee you a spot.

>> No.7457944

>>7457939
By the way, the schools I mentioned as the most selective are just a few examples, and are in no way a statement of "best schools". Also, 2100-2200 can get you into those schools, when it's supplemented with a strong set of EC's, leadership, activites, etc.

>> No.7457945

>>7457918
Here is a chart for ACT and SAT with percentiles.

http://www.freetestprep.com/blog/resources/act-sat-conversion-chart-with-percentiles/

The Ivy league and similar caliber schools have test scores averaging in the 98th percentile and up generally. Caltech is the school that REALLY focuses on test scores and you'll need a 35+ or 2350+ to be considered in most cases.

>> No.7457982

>>7457928
holy shit, i think i believe you

what did you study there?

>> No.7457994

2200
760 math
720 reading/writing

big deal

>> No.7458008

>>7457783
>weightlifted

>> No.7458027

>>7457783
The reason why: you can't write, your personal statements were probably shit.

>> No.7458033

>just scored top 2% on national boards in med school
>can literally be a plastic surgeon if I wanted
>never took SAT or ACT

Community college for the win.

>> No.7458038

>>7458033
Depends on where you live, but yeah, that's a pretty viable option. People scoff because it's high school part 2, but it gets you past the weeder courses at good schools, and it doesn't change what goes on your degree.

>> No.7458039

>>7458033
are they the exams you do toward the end of med school?

i'm not american so i'm not quite sure how the system works there

>> No.7458044

>>7458039

Nah there's three parts, with the 1st part typically taken at the halfway point and is the most important by far.

>> No.7458060

>>7458044
far out. you'd be stoked that you nailed it

>> No.7458091

>>7457324
USA is world's best country, so shut the fuck up eurofag

>> No.7458122

OP here, taking the SAT in October.
Thanks, this has been helpful.

>> No.7458124

>>7458122
Lol, I had a feeling you are an underage faggot looking for tips.

>> No.7458130

>>7458124
Eh, implying everyone here is 18+

>> No.7458193

SAT: 650 Math, 630 Reading, 590 Writing
GRE: 160 Math, 167 Reading, 4.5 Writing

>> No.7458214

IQ: ???
ACT: 32
SAT: 2140 (1500 w/o writing)

>>7457307

Same boat man. I'll forever love the PSAT.

>> No.7458221

>>7457802
>>7457823
My niggas.

35 ACT here as well. We are the 1%.

>> No.7458225

I dropped out of high school

>> No.7458230

>>7457279
I took the SAT like 9 years ago. Who cares?

>> No.7458232

>>7457860
Thanks, man. Kind of odd that the SAT studying ended up paying off on the ACT more than anything, but I'll take it. Got me into a nice school with a cushy scholarship.

>> No.7458237 [DELETED] 

I went to a shitty HS
My shitty HS didn't have any SAT prep
I took the SAT for the very first time having never seen the exam before and made like a 900 on it old scale.
I ended up graduating with a pure math degree and was accepted to a top graduate program...

SAT doesn't really mean shit. It just showed I was from a very poor background and went to a shitty school but once I was in college none of that shit mattered as I did real research and was good enough to get into a good grad program.

>> No.7458247

>>7458237
It does kind of matter. From what I here, you can study and prepare for it, but everyone has a point where they plateau and can't improve any further. I did bad the first time around as well but then I studied relatively little and almost got a perfect score. I think that the test just takes a little getting used to if you weren't exposed to similar tests beforehand. If you studied, you would have probably gotten a high score too considering what your saying is true.

>> No.7458276

ACT: 35
SAT: 2120

>> No.7458285

ACT: 35
SAT: 2240

>> No.7458291
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7458291

So is the SAT basically like a highschool-wide IQ test that you need for top tier colleges (assuming small range increase with studying, etc.)? I'd probably kill myself if I had a high GPA by trying hard or some shit then bombing the SAT/ACT..Good thing my country only considers inflated highschool GPAs for admissions

>> No.7458307

>>7458291
>So is the SAT basically like a highschool-wide IQ test that you need for top tier colleges

Basically. Its not perfect, but people who criticize it usually have bad SAT scores.

>> No.7458312

ACT: 34
SAT: 2130

Fuck the writing section.

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Kind of unrelated, but did anyone else get accepted to a fancy Ivy League school that was too expensive and have to go to a state school instead? Feels bad man.

>> No.7458325

>>7458320
no. mine is
>tfw 35 ACT and super inflated high school GPA, rejected by every good school and ended up at RIT with mountains of regret

>> No.7458330

>>7458320
I got accepted into Brown and I'm going there soon. And what are you talking about dude? Ivies give great financial aid. I'm only paying around 6000 this year and I'm not even poor. Unless your rich, you shouldn't have to pay the full price tag. But if your rich then paying it would not be an issue. Plus there are scholarships. What happened dude?

>> No.7458346

>>7457288
The only part of the SAT that involves 'rote memorization' that's not in the form of problem solving is the vocab part of CR.

I'm guessing you got 800s on math and writing then?

>> No.7458354

>>7458330
I think we were asked to pay something like 45k a year, which is a few times more expensive than where I'm at now. It just didn't seem worth it, especially cause my school isn't bad or anything. Still grimace whenever UPenn pops up in the news or whatever though

>> No.7458358

>>7458354
Did you apply for financial aid nigger? If you did and you still had to pay that amount then you are probably rich. Plus what about scholarships?

>> No.7458367

Anything below 2100 is trash. All it means is you didn't put as effort forth as you should. Besides we should be doing GRE subject tests scores, make the high schoolers shut up. I got a 158 on Math, 170 on geology, and 166 on Physics.

>> No.7458369

>>7458358
Dude, I don't know. Maybe we have more money than I thought. I'll probably apply for grad school there. What are you studying at Brown?

>> No.7458376

>>7458320
I got into Brown and Tufts the only schools a applied to. I decided against brown because everyone I met on the admissions day was the scum of the earth, met someone who believed that the colleges should have a minimum family income to attend with MIT and the ivies starting at ten million. It most likely isn't truly representative but I only met rich douches like that and it really turned me off, conversely Tufts I met people who didn't give a damn about status. Anyway sorry for ranting, but if you had to pay a bunch then you either are rich or didn't apply for financial aid.

>> No.7458382

>>7458369
>What are you studying at Brown?

Not 100% yet. For now, either CS or EE.

>> No.7458389

>>7458027
>Implying the SAT's writing section is an accurate measurement of one's writing skills
You can literally make up shit for your supporting "evidence" and get the boost from that.

>> No.7458390

>>7458376
>Brown and Tufts the only schools a applied to
bold move

>met someone who believed that the colleges should have a minimum family income to attend with MIT and the ivies starting at ten million
what the fuck I would have never thought Brown would have such vocal, pretentious assholes. Tufts always did seem nice though, kind of sucks most kids I talk to dismiss it as some sort of Ivy reject school. The schools probably better off without them though, I would assume.

>> No.7458394

>>7458390
I could only afford to apply to two schools so I chose to I thought would be a good fit, and yeah people for some reason view it as a ivy reject school, but the majority of people I've met there so far got into places like Stanford, Yale, Brown, and Harvard and just declined admission. But i mean its whatever for some reason everyone I've seen at Tufts is the type of person who would rather work hard and make the school superior to the ivies than go to an Ivy just for the benefit of the name,l.

>> No.7458399

>>7458376
Yeah maybe I'm just retarded idk it was a while ago

>> No.7458408

>>7458394
Brown is just ranked lower because it has weaker graduate programs. Undergraduate is great though from what I hear.

>> No.7458424

2310 combined

>> No.7458442
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>>7457279
>tfw school holds assembly honoring you
and that was my high school moment of fame

>> No.7458472

>>7458442
Nice, where you at now boy

>> No.7458476

>>7458472
Northwestern, got into isp.northwestern.edu and decided it was a better opportunity than maybe a bigger name school

>> No.7458500

SAT: 1910 first time, 2120 second time
ACT: 32
Nothing special really, couldn't have gotten into a top 20 school but could have gone to a good-but-not-great tier 2 school if my GPA wasn't shit because of laziness. OP clearly just took the test or got his scores back or something and wanted to feel superior to a bunch of people who call themselves smart but are really just pretty average undergrads.

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>>7458442
Well done bro. Here's mine. Just, uh, six points short of getting an assembly ;-;

>> No.7458542

>>7457279
>If /sci/ is so smart
have you browsed through the catalog?
>what were your SAT scores?
2220, who gives a fuck though

>> No.7458549

>>7458091
>Not American
>Must be European

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>tfw got 99.55 atar in high school while only studying 2 hours per week day
>literally superior to 99.5% of the population without even trying lmao would've got 99.95 if I cared
>there are actually retards that get less than 95

>> No.7458575

>>7457279

we dont have them, or anything similar in norway :^)

>> No.7458583

1930 first time, 2110 second time.Got into Berkeley engineering, so I'm satisfied. Could have done better maybe I dunno, I didn't do any preparation at all either time I took it.

>> No.7458585

2090

>> No.7458589

9001