/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.8332271]

>your university & major
>your SAT/ACT score

[Anonymous No.8332273]

>>8332271
>your university & major
Mining Engineering, fairly small uni somewhere in Europe

>your SAT/ACT score
Does not apply.

[Anonymous No.8332275]

>>8332271
community college
AS EE

2400

[Anonymous No.8332285]

>>8332275
>he fell for the CC meme

[Anonymous No.8332294]

>your university & major
UNAM, physics

>your SAT/ACT scores
I got 1800, I was just doing the test for the sake of it though.

[Anonymous No.8332302]

>>8332285
just poor

I get a stipend from the CC and I can transfer with a decent scholarship from the CC to a more prestigious university that the CC has an agreement with.

[Anonymous No.8332308]

Physics at UF
29 on the ACT

[Anonymous No.8332309]

>>8332302
If you are poor, how did you get 2400?

[Anonymous No.8332311]

CS
2100

[Anonymous No.8332315]

UCLA EE transfer student
ACT 27

Did not take SAT

[Anonymous No.8332324]

>>8332309
I took the SAT twice.

Its not super expensive. The reading and mathematics sections were kind of jokes the only thing that dinged me on the first time was writing.

[Anonymous No.8332327]

>>8332271
32
U of A
Physics & Biology

In retrospect, should have studied and aced the SAT and went top. Then again, I can just go to a top for grad.

[Anonymous No.8332329]

>>8332309
The SAT costs like $50 to take. the books aren't that expensive and there is an assload of shit online to help you get a high score.

[Anonymous No.8332338]

Ucla CS freshman
2100, 2210 superscore

Tbh getting a 4.7 gpa was so much easier than getting above 2100 on the sat for me

[Anonymous No.8332339]

applied math
2160

[Anonymous No.8332402]

uchicago math 2360

[Anonymous No.8332461]

>>8332271
>UCLA MIMG
>2190/35

[Anonymous No.8332471]

vandy cs
1650

[Anonymous No.8332474]

>>8332271
Computer Engineering
A mediocre state school
ACT: 34

That face when I could have gone to Harvard

[Anonymous No.8332519]

MIT
art history

2360

[Anonymous No.8332526]

>>8332471
I can't tell if this is a dig at vandy for some reason (because it's not really a high target school here), or what. but a 1650 is really low for that school

[Anonymous No.8332531]

>>8332271
ME
30

I got a 27 in math and science and a 33 in English and Reading, but I didn't take school seriously at the time and read a lot. My friend from hs got a 35 and majored in Japanese of all things at a state university after turning down a full ride to Harvard... What a waste.

[Anonymous No.8332536]

>>8332271
>mathematics
>tiny Catholic school in midwest
>35
Cornell and Dartmouth rejected me, those bastards

[Anonymous No.8332560]

>it's an everyone on /sci/ is at least above average episode

[Anonymous No.8332577]

>>8332560
You need higher than average scores to even get into college, much less hard science. Not unreasonable desu

[Anonymous No.8332594]

UT Austin, EE

2220 SAT, 34 ACT

>Tfw 2.9 gpa
>peaked in hs

[Anonymous No.8332599]

>>8332577
>You need higher than average scores to even get into college
You have obviously never been to college. If you had, you would know that there very, very stupid people manage to get accepted to college.

[Anonymous No.8332624]

>VCU
>26 (On ACT)

>tfw you're a brainlet who comes here to make himself feels smart

[Anonymous No.8332627]

>>8332624
Oh, and I major in chemistry

[Anonymous No.8332633]

>>8332271
Anthropology at UNCG

1750 and 27

[Anonymous No.8332657]

I'm not American, but looks like most of the people ITT got shitty scores. What do you need to score in each test to put you in the 99th percentile?

[Anonymous No.8332669]

>>8332536
Those extracurrics are rly important for the ivys yo

[Anonymous No.8332671]

>>8332657
solve y=b-(-xa)

[Anonymous No.8332676]

Physics B.S.
URI
1450

>tfw high school slacker gets motivated
>community college for a year
>2nd year at uni
>2.9GPA
>fuckfuckfuck
>don't know how the fuck I'm going to make it into grad school


Seriously /sci/, am I fucked? If I get a fuckton of research done, volunteer and shit around the physics department, do good on my GRE's, and get good recommendations, will my last year, my retard-tier SAT scores, and the fact that I'll be getting my B.S. 5 years after HS instead of 4 fuck me over?

[Anonymous No.8332679]

>SAT
Haha, I'm a dropout, went to CC, withdrew and failed from a total of 8 classes, and am in my senior year for Electrical Engineering. 3.5 GPA

GIT GUD

[Anonymous No.8332682]

>>8332669
I was section leader in orchestra, jazz band, National Honors Society, track, and was cross country team captain. So that wasn't the problem. I think my essay was a little weak.

[Anonymous No.8332684]

>>8332676
Erm, some uni programs have a minimum GPA just to make it into the Bachelor's program. Check your major.

[Anonymous No.8332689]

>>8332657
>Most people got shitty scores
>Mixture of 2000's+ and 30's+
>MFW

>>8332676
Here's what grad schools care about
>GRE's
>Professor recommendations
>Official Pre-Reqs
>Anything random you can meme on your application

They won't give AF about anything prior to your end results.

Brother went from 2.75 to 3.2 after 2 years of hard work and because he got a professor recommendation they simply requested he do good on his GRE's and he'll be set.

[Anonymous No.8332690]

>>8332657
Pretty much above 2280 on the sat is 99th percentile. Anything above 2000 on the sat is generally considered a "smart person" score, at least in california (public school).

Gpa plays pretty heavy into our admissions too though, so there are plenty of 4.5+ applicants who get into top 20 schools with 2000 SATs and such. Same with 2300+ SATs who get in with under 4.5 GPAs.

>concerning STEM ofc

[Anonymous No.8332692]

>>8332271
>your race

[Anonymous No.8332693]

>>8332271
ee, act 36

[Anonymous No.8332694]

Since this is a /uni/ thread if I'm not at a super well known nor distinguished college, and want to go to grad school in math at a somewhat reputable place, is it worth trying to transfer to a better school? Or do grad schools not care where you got the degree as long as grades are solid and you have good recommendations?

[Anonymous No.8332699]

>>8332694
im at MIT and unless u come here too then lmao ur wasting ur time bro

[Anonymous No.8332702]

>>8332694
Depends on what school you want to go to for grad school. If you go to somewhere like MIT for undergrad and want in on their grad program they'll be more soft on requirements and likely to take you in than if you're an outsider. Other schools that are good but not as memed on will just want hard work.

[Anonymous No.8332704]

>>8332694
Try to transfer to a better school. If you can't, try to go all "anti-education" up in your dorm room and try to do individual research. Obviously the path not often taken (because its extremely hard), but if you can actually accomplish and publish something grad schools will eat you up.

Keep in mind they want researchers first and high GPA / prestige nerds 2nd

[Anonymous No.8332705]

>>8332694
The biggest problem is recs from reputable professors. If there are professors who are well known at your school, you're fine. If not, you may still have options by doing REUS (which you should be doing if you want to go to grad school).

[Anonymous No.8332706]

>>8332699
>implying MIT is the best for pure math

Nice meme.

[Anonymous No.8332709]

B.S. in math, M.S. in physics at School of Mines
SAT: 2180
ACT: 31

Definitely could have done a better job, but I couldn't be fucked to try and go into higher level education, leave with a shitton of debt and have a marginally higher chance of landing a job than someone who went to a mid-high tier school

[Anonymous No.8332712]

>>8332684
I'm already in the program, and I haven't been dropped. Minimum requirement to get in to the program was 3.0 I believe, which I had leaving CC, and minimum requirement to graduate is 2.0. Obviously I'm working to increase it, but I'm definitely in the program, lol.

[Anonymous No.8332718]

>>8332682
Those are great and all but if they didnt mean anything to you beyond your admission then they can see it in the essay. I mixed my hundreds of hours of film and AV extracurrics with my Comp Eng academic pursuits to explain how I wanted to go into VR research. It seemed to have worked really well for me so thats why I reccomend mixing hobbies with academic things in essays.

[Anonymous No.8332721]

I have a 2.8 GPA from 3 years ago

Would a 1400/1600 SAT score negate my shitty GPA?

[Anonymous No.8332722]

>>8332327

32 here

>30 Brothers unite.

MTU

Would you say that is a good school for my score?

[Anonymous No.8332723]

>>8332721
no

[Anonymous No.8332725]

>>8332721
Lmao
>not even close sry

[Anonymous No.8332726]

>730 reading
>710 math
>620 writing

Didn't study so I didn't know how to do good on the writing.

Math
VCU

[Anonymous No.8332727]

>>8332721
Depends where you want to go. Lot's of state schools auto admit people in state who reach a minimum score.

[Anonymous No.8332728]

Can someone please explain how to get your GPA lower than 3.0? I have always dreamed of being a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.8332731]

>>8332722
Tbh ive never heard of michigan tech but a 32 is around a good ballpark for humanities at ucla/berkeley/ucsd and STEM at the other UCs(i.e. irvine and davis, who cares about merced)

[Anonymous No.8332738]

>>8332723
>>8332725
>>8332727
I just want to get into a normal state school. Going to university at all would make me happy.

>>8332728
I was in a very try-hard college preparatory boarding school and ended up dropping out. the irony is funny to this day.

[Anonymous No.8332739]

>>8332728
Have a social life and do lots of drugs.

>sadly didnt work for my cog sci bud at Cal.
>desu his genius probs just got avg'd out by all the drugs he does.

[Anonymous No.8332745]

>>8332738
if it's just a state school, then maybe. If not, just go to CC for a year and transfer. Get A's at the CC, and with the 1400 you can get in somewhere.

[Anonymous No.8332748]

>>8332739

Oops that was meant for this guy >>8332728

[Anonymous No.8332751]

>>8332728
If I started at Uni I probably would've failed. It's fucking garbage. My CC had their shit together and all the teachers gave more than they should've (as in effort and time on their side), so it was easy to get an A in almost everything.

Literally the female calc teacher
>the homework isn't being graded, it's for you, not me

All the math teachers did statistics stuff too, so you'd see a breakdown of grades and the teacher would talk about what they did or didn't like on tests. Even the physics teacher looked over his grades to see if he had a good distribution going and if anyone needed help.

[Anonymous No.8332760]

>>8332751
I think the idea of uni is that they kinda kick you to the curb and let you survive on your own.

CC is another opportunity for ppl who didnt do too hot in HS to figure out how to learn independently and do good

[Anonymous No.8332795]

>>8332760
Teachers cared a lot more in CC than uni, there's like no independence going on. My CC degree was also free. Let me repeat that: It cost me $0, and I even got back at least $500 for each semester to get my AS. All I got was the standard Tap and Pell grants.

[Anonymous No.8332800]

>>8332271

Minnesota's first university.

Mathematics (after some trouble, I did finally graduate).

SAT: 1460/1600, old test. An exact even split between "math" and "english", being 730 on each section. Took the test exactly once and did not bother about re-taking, both because I was satisfied with my score and also because I did not want to hazard worse performance on a second take, which (as I understood it at the time) threatened to lower what I could report during the college hunt.

On the SAT, a late friend got a perfect 800 on the English section. However she never cared for math and sciency things, and so she only managed a 530 (IIRC) on that section.

ACT: 31/36. The breakdown was something like: math 31, english (first part-thing): 32, English (second part-thing) 28, read science graphs n' shit 28. Somehow the cumulative result shook out to 31 in spite of this latter guess of mine. Despite the fact that I could have retaken this test without hazarding the established 31 (unlike the SAT as I understood things), I didn't bother. Again, I took the actual test exactly once and left it alone afterwards because I was satisfied with my initial performance. I was actually engaged on the college hunt itself by this point and I didn't feel like juggling one more piece of effort for something that I might very well have simply done worse on, anyway, when I had already done fine on it.

I spent maybe a few days reviewing study material for each test before doing them and got the good night's sleep, etc. Apart from taking the process seriously when the time came (hence the few days' study), I didn't fuss too much over them.

The aforementioned trouble involved taking time off due to trashing my GPA. I did go back and graduate, however.

[Anonymous No.8332839]

>>8332271

University od Texas at Dallas (UT-D)

33 on the ACT and 2170 on the SAT

Being a brainlet at everything besides standardized tests is pretty fun desu

[Anonymous No.8332844]

>>8332839
>33 ACT
>a good standardized test score

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice

[Anonymous No.8332850]

2330

Rutgers, Philosophy and Economics double major. Sudied some Mandarin too

[Anonymous No.8332908]

thoughts? dropbox internship app

[Anonymous No.8332914]

>>8332908
Wow.

[Anonymous No.8332915]

University de Iowa / EE
2120 / 34

[Anonymous No.8332918]

>>8332908
Dude you don't wanna work for someone like that anyway.

[Anonymous No.8332919]

>>8332908
>lay ebin front end web """""""programming""""""

cute

[Anonymous No.8332980]

>>8332918
What you said man.
Honestly seems like a hub of inflated egos

[Anonymous No.8333108]

Got accepted into U at Buffalo with 2.9CGPA. gonna do civil eng, is it worth it bros?
am a transfer student from msia

[Anonymous No.8333173]

>>8332271
>not saying
>2370 / 34

The time limits on the ACT were pretty lame.

[Anonymous No.8333272]

>>8332271
A levels: A* A* A*
Cambridge Physics
I take the superior "SAT"

[Anonymous No.8333282]

>Aerospace engineering
>U of Illinois
>34 ACT

[Anonymous No.8333285]

How do you even remember your SAT score? Universities never asked for mine.

[Anonymous No.8333313]

Math PhD
Boston University
2270

>>8332676
I was at URI for undergrad. Don't be a dumbass and get a better GPA and also try to publish. No one will care about your SAT scores or that you are out in five years. Also the people at uri are cool but doing what they do won't get you in grad school

[Anonymous No.8333348]

a levels AAA
nottingham mechE

[Anonymous No.8333361]

Oh look it's another I need to feel self important thread.

[Anonymous No.8333376]

>>8333313
Yea I feel you man, that's why my GPA dropped in the first place. But I'm confident I can boost it back up if I'm not wasting my weekends getting drunk in Eastward all the time.

[Anonymous No.8333399]

>>8333285
You can still pull it up on the college board website.

[Anonymous No.8333412]

cornell ECE, in a lecture right now kek
2250

[Anonymous No.8333425]

University of Houston. Chemistry

2060 SAT

[Anonymous No.8333476]

>>8333361
>oh look, it's another smug anime face post

[Anonymous No.8333487]

CWRU - Physics, Math, and Music
ACT: 35
SAT: Didn't take it

[Anonymous No.8333531]

>SAT/ACT
>what do you mean by 'countries outside America'

[Anonymous No.8333537]

>Computer Science
>96.4 ATAR

[Anonymous No.8333555]

>>8332519
You need 2360 for art history?
Damn

[Anonymous No.8333640]

>>8333412
How is cornell's campus honestly? Is it super depressing like everyone says?

I turned it down for ucla bc they didn't give me financial aid

[Anonymous No.8333642]

>>8333555
Seems like it.

The "art history" program at MIT is REALLY competitive
>lmao