SAT Reasoning Test, score Options

[pandemonium]

so i took the sat reasoning test in june and i just saw my scores online and they were pretty bad i got:
Critical Reading: 400
Mathematics: 500
Writing: 390

im not good at writing essays, and my english affected my critical reading cuz i saw long words that i have never seen im my life (well since i know the english language)
im planning on taking it again senior year and i want to know what did you do to improve your scores?? besides the SAT question of the day, wich by the way it barely helped

[Insurmountable]

well considering his/her score was the highest and you said it right after her posts. Some people are left to assume that you were talking to them

good point though.

I kind of agree with Nikki though, why didn't you choose to go to a different school?

[anoniez]

well considering his/her score was the highest and you said it right after her posts. Some people are left to assume that you were talking to them

good point though.

I kind of agree with Nikki though, why didn't you choose to go to a different school?

Sorry if I misinterpreted :\ it's happened to me so many times that I kind of start assuming, I guess. My bad, if you weren't talking to me.

I would like to correct a popular misconception though.. good scores do NOT automatically get you in anywhere. To go someplace like Harvard or similar, you still have to do some pretty hardcore stuff outside of school, like start a free clinic or something (joking... sort of). Unfortunately I was never the type to do that when I could sleep in on weekends.

Why Emory? Well.. several reasons. One was that I'm pre-med and Emory's well known for its premed program, but most importantly (I hate to say this buuut) it's in the south. I absolutely can't stand the cold, soooo.. :) I got into some schools farther north but I knew that I would be completely miserable every winter for four years, and I couldn't stand the thought, I probably would've gone insane.

[*paperplane*]

I would like to correct a popular misconception though.. good scores do NOT automatically get you in anywhere. To go someplace like Harvard or similar, you still have to do some pretty hardcore stuff outside of school, like start a free clinic or something (joking... sort of). Unfortunately I was never the type to do that when I could sleep in on weekends.

Why Emory? Well.. several reasons. One was that I'm pre-med and Emory's well known for its premed program, but most importantly (I hate to say this buuut) it's in the south. I absolutely can't stand the cold, soooo.. :) I got into some schools farther north but I knew that I would be completely miserable every winter for four years, and I couldn't stand the thought, I probably would've gone insane.

I'm not under the impression that that's all it takes (I know enough people who applied to Ivies/equivalent schools to know better), it just seemed fair to assume that if you put that much effort into getting good scores, you would have put as much effort into making good grades and crafting an impressive list of extracurriculars. I made decent scores, but I didn't study at all. And I made fairly mediocre grades because I didn't try very hard in classes either.

I like how valid your reasons are, though. I applied to Emory, but I don't really know why. Being in state it sort of seemed like I should, even though in actuality it made little sense for me to do so.