he probably said that because they're in stanford and he probably thought the guy interviewing was also a student. Its pretty impressive to get a 1200 and go to standford bc that means he was a total beast in the other areas of his application. Soo he couldve thought that and yeah i think that "shit okay" was an impressed and shocked reaction because of the confusion.
@@qarashuaqAs a graduate student, I have been a math and physics teacher for high-school students and I can guarantee that success at school doesn't only depend on willingness, it is also a matter of intelligence. Example: a = b + c Give b as a function of a and c Some students struggle to come up with an answer. Some are not able to find the solution. We are not equally smart, that is a fact
@@timsel6796 Not knowing how to solve an equation does not make one less intelligent than another. The person who may not solve it could excel in english, or any other subject. It was a matter of willingness, with the other person being more willing to learn math.
@@timsel6796SAT scores don't mean much. Also your example problem is something pretty much anyone without a severe learning disability would be able to solve. But yes there is a point where hard work won't be enough and a certain amount of intelligence is needed.
my SAT score was 1570, I’ve applied to the ivy leagues! I have no idea if I got in though (possibly rejected). updates!! sorry guys I forgot to tell you lol: ACCEPTED: Oxford, Stanford, Penn WAITLISTED: Princeton Columbia Uni REJECTED: Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, (I also got rejected into mit but I don’t think it’s an Ivy League lmao)
I got a 1590, and ended up at community college and really am not doing as hot as I thought I would be when I saw that score I got. You often hear about these success stories that go to Stanford and all these ivies, but there's plenty of people who fall through the cracks.... moral of the story test scores literally mean nothing.
@@foreverKHHV Applied to a few T20's and ivy's, didn't get into any of them. Didn't even get into my state school. I did get into a state school which was quite reputable and good but it was OOS and in the end I thought going to community college and aiming to transfer in a year was smarter than paying upwards of 60 or 70 thousand per year for an out of state school. It just goes to show that these colleges look for more than test scores and GPA. They look for character through your essays and EC's, and sadly I didn't have them.
My GPA is 4.44 and my sat is perfect 1600 lol This just means gpa doesn't mean anything outside of your school alone, cause every school is different. Some schools are more competitive (like mine) while some schools are so much more lax. Ik some people who purposely moved to a easier school so they can be autoadmit to the top state schools with class rank
@@stanky5187 that's insane to me, I'd rather attend a more competitive and rigorous school than my own- it's a very small district, virtually no competition, I've been here since pre-school
@@martaciousss but class rank auto admissions are overpowered. You can make really good schools like UT Austin as your safety school, and you don't stress as hard in the easier school. OFC you'll probably do worse in college, but since college gpa doesn't matter much unless you're doing premed or something, it's really worth it for most people i'm doing premed though also, for reference, my school has 900+ high school seniors this year. literally larger than most liberal arts colleges
@@stanky5187 I'm looking to go into engineering at Pitt, which I've already been accepted to, though I've also applied to CMU (didn't submit SAT scores). I really want to do well in college, but we'll see what happens. My graduating class is about 49 😂
same. 1230. not considered "bad" but definitely not great for extremely high achieving (like ivy) students. god, i wish i had taken high school more seriously...i'm starting community college soon after working in retail a few years. i was accepted into some decent schools my senior year but had mental health problems so i never went
@@yaneyrydelfin5959 Community college didn’t require it for me, so I did two years of that, then transferred to a university. Saved a lot of money that way too
1600 is a perfect score, 400 is the minimum and each question is worth about 10 marks. 1000-1300 is about average and anything about 1500 is considered exceptional. hope that helps ❤️
Don't bother understanding it, the exam is pathetically easy and only serves as a good exam in the US because public education here is garbage. Any random student from China or India would score nearly a perfect on the math section of the SAT.
I was an international student, and I didn't know about what sat was, 2 weeks before the SAT I got to know that I have to give this national exam I still didn't study a thing because I knew I couldn't do shit about it, and to my surprise the exam was pretty easy and I got 1000! I wasnt mad about it because I didn't even know the existence of sat 2 weeks before the exam but still got a decent score, at least that's what I think :)
Standardized testing is getting less appreciated nowadays, colleges are under reform. Nothing is static, everything is falling apart. Look at the abnormal admission rates this year and you will understand
From what ik, what colleges value from most to least is: Grades (just be top 50% for your dream school) > extracurriculars (be as outstanding as you can be, this is what colleges look at to decide whether to accept you or the 5 gazillion other valedictorians applying to that school) > test scores/essays (depending on if school is test optional, but for test scores just be above 50% for dream school and essays be as outstanding as it can be) > others (like teacher recs and additional information)
I got an 1800! I’m old though and this was during that brief time when it was out of 2400. To be fair I didn’t study for it at all. My ACT score was better.
Ummmm lol here in morocco we have students that get 1530´s and they are only 14 we teach the maths that you learn in high school and college in middle school
I was about a 1200. But I took it my junior year and did not study for it. I was accepted to college and got a scholarship with that so I didn't take it a second time.
i got a 1550 with a 4.0 gpa but i didnt have too many extra curriculars cuz of where i live so i didnt make it into any of the ivies tho i did make utoronto n ucl n a few other top hundreds sucks that ucl doesn’t give scholarships tho :(
You forgot there might be 24/25 year olds on campus who might have taken the old SAT (Ok they’re pretty obsolete now but they still could have existed until last year)
I know people who were ok by indian standard, i mena they were good but not extraordinary and got above 1500 . People who are able to score 50 percent in jee main or around 30 percent in jee advance, i saw them easily scoring above 1500 . Infact class 10 th, 11 th stydents who cannot clear jee main or advanace, get score like 1300 -1400 in sat.
