im not sure if it was my brother or steel in one of his articles who said this but apparently RIGOROUS SAT STUDY COURSES are the way rich white people all get the sat scores necessary to get into good colleges.  they are v v effective and more than actually teaching you everything you need to learn or whatever in order to answer EVERY SINGLE QUESTION RIGHT, they just teach you how to take the test well.  like, there's a method apparently.  idk i dropped out before i took them so i'm not entirely sure!  but yes the classes are incredibly expensive but help a lot apparently.

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studying

yeah i definitely just did some practice sat questions that i had the college board send me in the mail every day!

and you can do practice tests online for all the tests they have, including SAT IIs

sat study courses sound like a load of shit but i guess they work

@ Juris

Those scores should be fine, I wouldn't worry about taking the SAT ever again.  Your math score is most likely high enough to place you into whatever math you need, plus a lot of schools have math placement tests during their orientation programs in which you can place into a higher level of math if you need to.  Your writing and verbal scores should be high enough to place you out of most if not all english, depending on how the school you're looking at gives credit.  I'd say you're fine, just wait for your ACT to come back, and if it's lower than you wanted take that one again.

EDIT: oh yea, and as far as justifying paying to get above 2000, uh no.  if you look up what certain schools accept as far as SAT scores are concerned and the school is listed as accepting 2000 and higher, unless it's some rediculously prestigious school, then i can gurrantee you that there are people in that school that scored less than 1800 on the SAT.  schools will generally accept you, as long as you can pay...

once last piece of advice.  i know it kind of goes against everything i've been saying but...i would find out two things from each of the schools you are applying to (this is just SAT stuff).  do they give out any money based on SAT scores? and will they take your best sections from each time you took the SAT and add those together? i'm sure you are right there for any money if the school offers it, but one thing you might think about is the second question.  if the answer is yes and they will take your best sections, then, if it will get you money or some other great oppurtunity i would look in to studying your ass off for the math section of the SAT and not worrying about the others.  Your overall score might be lower, but if you could boost your math up to 650 or higher then your overall score with your best sections would look really good.  if there aren't any monetary oppurtunities though, then screw it, your scores are good enough...oh yea and you're the first person i've ever heard of that's actually taken the subject tests, are the schools you're interested in requiring those?

Back @ Juris

I know that a lot of private institutions have money laying around if you score high enough on the SAT.  Some of the ones I looked at literally had "If you score...1850 = $500 1900 = $1000 1950 = $1500."  I know that at all the small colleges I applied at I received their "Presidential" "Dean's "Academic" scholarship that would basically take the price of the college down to a public universities price.  What is your GPA and on what scale?  Some schools tie in GPA with it as well.  Also, as long as you get into the schools now, and if you were to take the SAT again, I would recommend taking it in the spring.  If both your GPA and SAT's are higher in the Spring, you can easily send a follow-up transcript with your higher grades and scores, and they will like that.  I did that with my GPA for my spring semester of my senior year and I got a $2000 grant because my grades were higher.

im not sure if it was my brother or steel in one of his articles who said this but apparently RIGOROUS SAT STUDY COURSES are the way rich white people all get the sat scores necessary to get into good colleges.

i didn't study for the SATs either time i took them except for Math the second time, and it only raised my score from 640 to 660.

SATs and ACTs depress me. I used to get so much anxiety over them! But congratulations on the good scores.

im not sure if it was my brother or steel in one of his articles who said this but apparently RIGOROUS SAT STUDY COURSES are the way rich white people all get the sat scores necessary to get into good colleges.  they are v v effective and more than actually teaching you everything you need to learn or whatever in order to answer EVERY SINGLE QUESTION RIGHT, they just teach you how to take the test well.  like, there's a method apparently.  idk i dropped out before i took them so i'm not entirely sure!  but yes the classes are incredibly expensive but help a lot apparently.

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studying

Yeah, as I mentioned above I took private SAT courses which were really good but unfortunately I still did bad!

Just pay attention for once in school.  It's really not that hard...

Fuck you.

Yeah, as I mentioned above I took private SAT courses which were really good but unfortunately I still did bad!
Fuck you.

Did you try the ACT? It's a pretty different test and I actually learned stuff when I was studying for it.

Studying for the SAT just consisted of TEST STRATEGIES and memorizing nothing but bullshit which a sane education system would never measure someone's intelligence with.

what does SAT stand for? what kind of TEST are they???

well we dont put much stake in the SAT where i live so ill give you my act score

it is a 29/36

it's a really good score, top 5% in the country so.

Wow I guess the teachers at my school were right!

I'm on collegeboard looking at my detailed scores today and I'm top 99% on all three sections out of everyone who's taken it from my school.