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elena s asked:


SAT test has a mean score of 500 with a standard deviation of 100. And ACT test has a mean score of 18 with a standard deviation of 6.
a) Suppose that an engineering school honors program will accept only high school seniors with SAT or ACT score in the top 10%. What is the minimum SAT score for this program? What is the minimum ACT score for this program?.

Tyrone

Hugh Goldsmith asked:


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Joshua

Don Betterton asked:


Sentence completion is when they give you a sentence and they leave one or two blanks and you’re then asked to fill in the blank or blanks with the answer choices.

My advice is this, if you can read the sentence and fill in the blank on your own on what word you think would go in there and then look through the answer choices and either find that word or one that would means the same thing that’s ideal you pick and you move on.

Let’s say your vocabulary is not great. You think you know what word would go in and you look through the list and you don’t see that word anywhere. But you do see two answer choices that you do know the definition of and you know that those two don’t work; they don’t fit into the sentence. So cross out those two eliminate them you then have three left and even if you don’t know what the three words mean statically speaking it’s to your advantage to guess at this point. If you can eliminate two or more answers go for it and guess. But ultimately you might be right before the SAT’s you might not be able to improve your vocabulary in the next week.

For the younger students who may be watching this video, if you get started freshman, sophomore even at the beginning of junior year working on your vocabulary you can make a huge huge difference in your critical reading score. I have a pretty good vocabulary. I go through the sentence completion questions a lot with students and their easy for me not because I’ve seen them before but because I know what all the words mean.

So ultimately if you know what the words mean you have a great vocabulary it’s going to be easy for you. If you don’t your running out of time don’t panic. Again, try to pick a word that would fit in your own mind. See if you can find it or one that means the same thing. And if you can’t and you only know two words out of the five and you know they don’t work cross them out and guess; that’s the way you maximize your score.



Ruby

Hi asked:


I just got my SAT score back and i received a 500 on it..Are there any ways to improve that score?

Thanks for helping.

Cathy

m asked:


I’m a sophmore and I just got this score back. I’m wondering if this would have been good enough to make national merit scholar if I was a junior and what my SAT score would have been.

Vera

Mimi Doe asked:


Admission to top U.S. colleges and universities has never been more difficult.

Harvard broke all records in 2008, accepting just 7.1 percent of applicants, while Yale accepted 8.3 percent, Columbia 10 percent, and Princeton 9.3 percent. Brown and Dartmouth accepted 13 percent and 13.2 percent, respectively. Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, and Amherst Colleges accepted 16.3 percent, 18.4 percent, 18.3 percent, and 14.2 respectively. Swarthmore College granted admission to a record-low 15 percent, while the University of Pennsylvania admitted 16.4 percent. Boston College admitted a record-low 26 percent of applicants, and Duke reported record selectivity admitting 19 percent. The overall Ivy acceptance rate this past year was 12% — again, an all time low. For students applying from India the odds are even lower.

With Harvard and Princeton dropping early decision/action and Harvard, Dartmouth, Swarthmore and Tufts announcing expansions of financial aid in recent months, the pool of applicants for the Ivy League and other top schools is overwhelmed with qualified students and as a consequence, this year was the lowest ever in terms of acceptances. We don’t see this trend changing any time soon with a population bubble increasing the number of teenagers and more and more highly credentialed students applying. This year there are 3.23 million graduating U.S. high school seniors, and 60-65% of them now apply to colleges. The swelling population of 18-year-olds will peak in 2009, when the largest group of high school seniors in the nation’s history, 3.2 million, are to graduate. The early application information is already in and applications are up by 40% at some top schools.

All is not lost, however. Qualified students from India are being sought out by top Ivy League colleges and universities. Yale recently announced that it is intensifying efforts to recruit Indian students and create more faculty and student exchanges, research partnerships and leadership education.

Each year, as America’s leading college admissions experts, we receive hundreds of emails a week from devastated high school seniors who did not receive the news they had hoped for in the college admissions journey. Many of them had high scores, great extras, and amazing grades. We also hear from younger high school students who are desperately seeking the secrets that will make them stand out amid the scores of other super qualified applicants. Our Application Boot Camp® workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts (right next to Harvard University) fill up quickly with rising seniors who take part in our four day events to present themselves in the best possible light in their applications. The results for the students we’ve worked with have been astounding. But, we can’t work with everyone personally, so we created a product that duplicates what we do in the workshop — Application Boot Camp® Self Guided Program : www.ApplicationBootCamp.com/self. We made sure the product, including four audio tapes and a workbook, were available as an instant download for Indian students who are working on their January 1, 2009 U.S. applications. In fact, from now until January 1, 2009 we will give 10% off the price of this particular product. Just type in INDIA in the discount box.

We wanted to share our knowledge about what it takes to stand out and achieve success in the grueling Ivy League admissions process. We believe that knowledge is power! SO…to that end…to follow are some of our tips on what it takes to get into America’s top colleges. These coupled with a copy of Application Boot Camp® Self Guided Program should help qualified Indian students rise above the rest in the college admissions process:

1. Grades. This is one of the first areas a college admissions board will consider. Even if a student’s SAT scores are sky-high, high school grades, rank in class and rigor of courseload matter the most. A student who starts off strong but lets his grades lag in the final year, or vice versa, will have a hard time in the admissions process. Colleges want to see grades trend up in tough classes and students in the top 10% of their class. At Dartmouth College (one of the eight Ivy League schools) this year, for instance, 93.4 percent of accepted students ranked in the top 10 percent of their secondary school’s graduating class. Our students who have gotten into top colleges typically are A students who have taken 5-6 Advanced Placement classes.

2. Test scores. The SAT score is a big part of the admission’s picture because colleges report their freshman class averages to U.S. News and World Report. The biggest mistakes we see are students waiting until their senior year to take their first SAT test. Remember, colleges will see all of your SAT scores and will count the highest score in each section. So, begin early and take your first SAT in December or January of your junior year. That gives you time to retake it if you need to do so, with SAT preparation in-between. We don’t much like group SAT classes, but rather encourage students to work with someone who can teach you how to be a savvier test taker or to learn that skill yourself. We supply resources on our website including some amazing tutors who can work by phone even with international students.

3. Extracurricular activities. Don’t trust the lists of suggested extras that some college preparation sites offer. An admissions board will be much more impressed if you follow your passions and take them above and beyond. Show leadership and a theme. Use your summers to deepen that niche or themed interest.

4. Awards. Students who are talented, driven and dedicated will be seen favorably by college admissions boards. State, district or national awards in an area of expertise will set a student far apart from their competition.

5. Hooks. Sure, if you happen to be a legacy, recruited athlete, development case, famous person or have any other major ties to a particular college, leverage that hook!

While the Harvard acceptance rate and other Ivy League admissions rates are surprisingly low, it is by no means impossible to win a spot at one of these schools. For the exceptional student who works hard and prepares for college applications well in advance, an Ivy League education is still within reach.

Application Boot Camp® Founders:

Dr. Michele Hernandez and Mimi Doe are the founders of

Application Boot Camp® and award winning authors. Their work has been seen in all top American press including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week Magazine, The Boston Globe, USA Today. Between them, they have appeared on all major television news programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Early Show, and Good Morning America. Michele Hernandez worked for four years as Assistant Dean of Admissions at Dartmouth College and attended Dartmouth. Mimi Doe has a Masters in Education from Harvard University.

Visit them for more tips on college admissions: http://www.ApplicationBootCamp.com



Corey

Nina asked:


I graduated from high school in 1985 and my daughter will be taking SAT’s tomorrow. I was just having some great nostalgia about my high school years when I suddenly remembered that I forgot my SAT score. How can I find it online? Are there any websites that have it on record?

Ernest