Sat Test

Ivy League colleges receive thousands upon thousands of applications for admission each year, and each year thousands of students are rejected. Of the nearly four thousand early applicants this year to Yale, only 704 students were accepted for admission. At Stanford University only 12% of the 20,194 students applying for admission were allowed entrance into the hallowed halls of that esteemed school. Gaining admission to an Ivy League college is not easy. There is a great deal of competition for the spots available and if you want to be competitive you’ve got to start early and work hard.

As I’ve mentioned before, a college admission board looks at all aspects of a student, not just the SAT score. You want to be a well rounded student, involved in community service and extracurricular activities. A high SAT score is simply one measure of how well a prospective student will do in a particular university.

As a prospective freshman at an Ivy League school, you’ll want to round out your admission application in other ways.

Get involved in your high school’s activities. Join a club or two, be on the school paper or work on the school yearbook committee. Run for school office and be president of your graduating class. Make certain that you stand out from the crowd in ways that are likely to get noticed by a college admission board. Not only will these experiences be learning and growing ones for you, but they will also be rewarding in other ways as you go through your senior year. You’ll make great friends, and develop leadership qualities that will be attractive to a college admission board.

Volunteer at an animal shelter, or an old folk’s home. Give time back to your community if you can and you’ll take something valuable away with you; sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in having helped others.

In trying to achieve success in high school, don’t overdo things. When you become an over-achiever you are attempting to do too many things at the same time and this can cause problems in your life.

Let’s say that you’re the president of your senior class, you’re a cheerleader, you are on two sports teams and are involved in three clubs at school and you also volunteer at the local food bank and animal shelter. You maintain a high grade point average and are also involved in the youth activities at your church. You do all of these things while also working part time after school in order to save for college. Somewhere in between all of your school, work, clubs, sports, volunteer work and church you find time to sleep. Sometimes it’s even enough.

The problem with being an over achiever is that you may burn brightly for a time but the inevitable burn out is on the horizon. You may not feel it now, but your stress level is probably fairly high and stress can cause numerous problems. Your health may suffer, because you’re not giving yourself enough time for sleep. Sleep deprivation is common among high school students and when you’re an over achiever, sleep deprivation is much more of a problem. If you’re in a time crunch you’re probably not eating a healthy diet because it’s much easier to grab fast food instead of sitting down to a healthily prepared meal. These meals are high in fat and sugar and are detrimental to not only your physical health, but your mental state as well.

More is not always better. If you learn balance early in life it will be of great benefit to you your entire life and it will also look good on your college admission papers.

In preparing to take the SAT exam, you may have discovered that there are some gaps in your education. Depending upon where you’ve gone to school, what kinds of classes you’ve taken and what types of books you’ve read, your readiness may not be the same as another student’s. This doesn’t mean that you can’t take the SAT and get a high score. It simply means that you may have to do more studying and spend more time on your SAT preparation than you may have thought.

Because of the fact that the SAT is an essential part of every college’s admission paperwork, you’re going to want to do your best on this test. This means putting forth your best effort in order to get the highest score possible.

The SAT Reasoning test is scored between 200 to 800 points. Your essay portion is given a score between 2-12 points and your multiple choice questions score is between 20-80 points. Sometimes it’s difficult to understand just what your SAT score means, so I’ll try and break it down for you.

Let’s say you score a 500 on the SAT Reasoning section. This means that you scored close to the mean average, meaning that you scored as well as about half the students nationally who took the SAT. This means that you’re about average. You don’t want to be average; you want to stand out with your SAT scores in order to be admitted to the college of your choice.

This isn’t to say that you can’t get into a college or university with an average SAT score ~you can. However, if you look at the average SAT scores of a student admitted to an Ivy League university, then you’ll see just how important getting a high score can be in the overall scheme of things. A high SAT score means different things to different schools. Some colleges take lower test scores than others. If you’re shooting for admission to an Ivy League school, where competition is fierce for the available spaces, then you’re going to need very high SAT score, as well as a very impressive list of other accomplishments on your admission application. If you’re planning on going to a community college, then your SAT probably won’t matter as much. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t prepare and study as hard as you can, because you should always try to do your best. Your SAT scores will follow you no matter what college you start at or graduate from