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Originally Posted by tontoom
Are Americans very focused on SAT scores?
Is people clever if they got a higher score?
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Colleges in America focus somewhat on scores. I think GPA/Classes you took coupled with extracirricular are much more important, but it will be much harder getting into some colleges with 1000. I think if you score around 1200 most schools aren't going to hold it against you.
Scoring higher doesn't necessarily mean a person is smarter, but mostly how well they take tests. I know people that are plenty smart but who don't test well and don't score as high as they should.
I scored a 1330, 710 math 620 verbal. Damn analogies killed me. I got 2/11 on the analogies, scoring in the 30th percentile...scored 95th percentile in critical reading.