SR XXI: Title Change

Oh, I am pretty sure I didn't do that either, I don't remember. I can't even remember my scores on the ACT.

Henry Plainview wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: I got a 5 on that one too.  Only a 4 on Language/Composition in grade 11, though Aarrrgh, it was those f**king essays that killed me, I hate that vague on the spot bullsh*t. But did you get an 800 on the verbal section of the SAT? If you did I will have to kill myself for letting the internet make me so stupid.

I never did any SAT

My 5 came from the third essay, which I totally raped by writing about Ferlinghetti's Routines
I said the Statue of Liberty was a character

EDIT: well I did amazing at everything else too, but that one was by far the best.  my English techer would have crapped her pants if she could have read it


Oh, I got a 4 for French Language/Comp too


Hey wait a second are you suggesting your intelligence far out-strips mine?  Just because I put no thought into things I write on some forum doesn't mean I'm not brilliant. 


Edited by Triceratopsoil - August 23 2010 at 20:37

JJLehto wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: Tell me, in a % what the scores in SAT/AP equate to. I have no clue. BS?

with AP tests I think a 5 is 94% or something, a 4 is around 86%, and nothing else matters because you can't use it as University credit unless you go to a really crappy school

It's on a scale though, so if everyone sucks but you suck less you can get a 5.  I think with the calc AB test something like a 60% or higher gave you a 5 last year


on my calc test I left 2 of the 6 written questions blank and still got a 5.  I may have gotten 100% on MC component, though


Edited by Triceratopsoil - August 23 2010 at 20:39

Hey Jordan
"college is BS, the SAT/ACT/AP is BS"

pretty much the convo
You in?


Edited by JJLehto - August 23 2010 at 20:43

Ok. On my History scholarship paper, we just had to write an essay on our topic (mine was Tudor England) and I managed to get 15/20, which was good enough. On the English paper, we had to write three essays, two of mine got 8/10 and the third was only 6/10, but evidently, that was still high in the overall percentile. I screwed my Classics exam up though, one brilliant answer, the other was horrid.

Pretty much any University in NZ will let you in if you got a scholarship in anything. Heck, university entrance in NZ is a joke anyway. The standards are far too lax.

I guess entrance all depends here..

Some local schools near me I can't believe who got in...

Bigger/more prestigious are a lil more selective
Ivy League = old money or bye bye

I am pretty sure I never took AP anything ever know that I think about it. 

A Person wrote: I am pretty sure I never took AP anything ever know that I think about it.

you would know

everyone in North America has to write the test at the same time, with a supervising proctor, to prevent cheating or something

Any Colour You Like wrote: My European Politics lecturer went to Berkeley and Yale, he was awesome.

Im sure he was...but if you're not old money I have no idea how you get in.

Someone in my class scored 1590 (out of 1600) on the SAT, top 5 in class, GPA over 4.0 Requested NO financial aid at all. Was denied to Harvard.
He was real bummed about having to "only" go to Columbia...


a****le

Which brings me to my other RAGE. All sheep that go along with GPA/ test score/school BS

I have no doubt PSU or W&M or Rutgers is as fine as Harvard and actually affordable...


Edited by JJLehto - August 23 2010 at 20:54

Hmm... You guys are putting me to sleep with your boring-ish college/test talk.  Goodnight