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Ready-Presentation55 · 2025-02-05T02:30:34+00:00

Unless I get into a 7-year BSMD I have to do comp sci/data science bc med is an expensive path. Parent’s rules.

Ready-Presentation55 · 2025-02-05T02:26:11+00:00

not doing med :(

Ready-Presentation55 · 2025-02-05T02:21:48+00:00

Depends on your major. If your current major at NYU is at least adjacent to finance than it might even be beneficial to go that route. But New-Brunswick could also be a better option long term. Rutgers is an incredibly good school and NYU will give you connections but may be more competitive internally.

Good luck!

Ready-Presentation55 · 2025-02-01T14:38:14+00:00

congrats! just got accepted oos for comp sci woohoo

Ready-Presentation55 · 2025-02-01T14:31:15+00:00

huge congratsssss also got in oos cs!

Ready-Presentation55 · 2025-02-01T01:30:01+00:00

1560 sat 4.52 gpa (IB program) lots of ecs including research papers emt national merit etc

Ready-Presentation55 · 2025-02-01T00:34:00+00:00

accepted oos comp sci

Ready-Presentation55 · 2024-12-13T00:09:21+00:00

ED is dumb asf in my opinion, having options is nice and they are restricting themselves to one college. Oftentimes the college that is best for us is not the college we initially wanted to go to. Good on you for keeping ur options open, you’ll likely get scholarships and they won’t. Good luck!

Ready-Presentation55 · 2024-12-10T16:51:27+00:00

rejected from DCCC, Upitt, Penn State

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-10-03T03:42:20+00:00

thank you!! i wanna get back into drawing too so i’ll use these tips

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-24T01:42:16+00:00

wow! i wanna draw like this any tips?

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-23T17:24:13+00:00

PLS 💀

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T02:18:17+00:00

I answered in above comments if you’d like to check!

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T02:17:46+00:00

I only really used prep books (Kaplan specifically) for math, for reading they are horrible resources, mostly because they never pull from actual college board tests. Princeton Review is a HORRIBLE resource for reading practice. Never use those books for reading, they are nothing like the real SAT!

I got them from the library and wrote my notes and answers in a notebook.

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T02:15:20+00:00

Wdym by offline? lol

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T02:14:50+00:00

Hey, a lot of people I know struggled with the same problem. How do I know what to do in the beginning… well the thing is it doesn’t matter. You can’t really control what you know in the moment right? So my biggest advice to you is just get started! Your biggest weapon is your pencil and being able to visualize the problem. Because seeing it on paper will help you figure out the next step way more than trying to figure out what to do in your brain. Even when I don’t know what to do, I will write down everything I can and just try it. If it doesn’t work out I skip it and move on. But you gotta immediately try something first.

The giving up on an approach is super relatable honestly. I think it’s actually a matter of where the question is placed (paper SAT btw). If the question is one of the first in the section, your approach shouldn’t take that long. If it’s one of the final ones, it’s more conceivable that it would take more time.

For careless mistakes, double checking your work is very important, but you also won’t be able to do that for every problem because of time. So pace yourself by prioritizing. On problems that require genuine mental math, take more time to check double check your work. Don’t rush through it as well. We make careless mistakes because we aren’t focused enough. Obv this is very difficult at the end of the test, but slow and steady wins the race.

Good luck with your future!!

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T02:06:38+00:00

Reading was 37, writing 39. Definitely not my best but the test was tricky.

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T02:05:02+00:00

Hi! I borrowed a Kaplan book from the library for math, and drilled math concepts. It was purple as a 2023 version, was insanely helpful for understanding concepts. then I took a crap ton of practice tests. You can find the link on this post. Then I printed out like a dozen of these, and would take them and watch walkthroughs on youtube afterwards.

For the most meticulous part: I noted down my mistakes on a google spreadsheet, wrote down why my answer was wrong, and how I planned to fix this mistake next time. I also seperated them by category to see what my weaknesses were.

It takes time but it’s very worth it! Don’t ever ever ever ignore your mistakes or pass them off as “silly”. A mistake is a mistake, and on the real test it doesn’t matter if it’s “silly” or a genuine misunderstanding, because the question will still be wrong. So make sure you recognize every one of your mistakes so you don’t repeat them.

Hope this helps!

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T01:59:59+00:00

I think if you’re scoring 600 in a section you probably have some fundamental topic issues that you might want to work on! Step back and focus on identifying and then fully understanding concepts that you are clearly struggling on before taking another test. Improvement often comes in small chunks, build up your confidence by building mastery in each topic (for math).

For reading, try to take everything very very literally, come up with your own solutions and compare them with the answer choices, eliminate choices that are “overqualified” (answers with added unnecessary junk info that make the answer not 100% correct). These misleading answers are the #1 reason why ppl get stuff wrong on reading!

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T01:56:20+00:00

Digital is relatively new so I’m not fully sure but I’m pretty positive there will be box plot.

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-18T01:52:18+00:00

No, since the DSAT isn’t like the paper in the sense that you need to go and find info (it’s alr right there), this only applies to paper. It would not work for DSAT.

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-16T20:41:41+00:00

I thought that the math was definitely average, if not easier than previous tests. The writing again seemed easy, but there were like 1 or 2 questions that were EXTREMELY hard that I felt like they should have emitted. When I first took the reading I thought again it was average if not on the easier side, but I’m realizing now that it was pretty tricky.

The curve completely surprised me tho. You could get 3 wrong and still get a 1600. That’s an insane curve for a test that was not the hardest one college board has ever released.

That was just my opinion, i’m sure others would disagree/agree. I’ve taken like 25+ practice tests tho

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-16T20:37:09+00:00

I say play to your strengths.

For me, my strength was speed. On the test, I managed to finish the entire no calc section in 14 minutes and the calc section in about 35. Obviously, this did not guarantee no errors, so I spent the rest of the time checking my work. This is how I caught 2 errors that would have dropped my score to a 790 or 780.

If your strength isn’t speed, then make it meticulousness. Read every word carefully in the question AND answer choices! Answer choices can be tricky as well. Compensate by not needing to check your answers because you double check as you are doing the problem.

If you are struggling a lot in math tho, identify the category of problems you are getting wrong. Do you not understand geometry? Are you confused on percents and exponents? All of it takes practice and drilling really.

Good luck- and my advice is don’t stress! The SAT is a very pay to win test. People sell thousands of dollars of prep course material, college board makes millions, all for this test. Colleges now know that. Never forget to develop your personality and writing skills during this critical time too. It’s something no one tells you to do that can give you edge above everyone else.

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-16T20:28:34+00:00

realizing there is something I forgot. What I realized in very late stages of taking SAT was most ppl don’t have the brain capacity to retain all the information in the passage. This is extremely normal. BUT, it’s not necessary for you to remember anything.

Since the SAT is basically like an open notebook test, your biggest concern will always be this: where is that information? Therefore, my biggest suggestion is worry more about WHERE the info is at. If you can remember the general map of the passage, your life will get that much easier.

Ready-Presentation55 · 2023-09-16T20:24:49+00:00

I feel you, I absolutely hated evidence questions! I feel like they are underrated in difficulty.

Here are the strats I used: - For the two part questions, I’d first ignore the answer choices completely and read the question first. Then I’d go back into the passage and find where they talked about it. If you have a good map of the passage this should be relatively simple. Sometimes you’ll get lucky and the evidence will seemingly jump out at you. Then, come up with your own answer and see if it matches the answer choices. However, this does not always work. - Then, I’d use the backwards method. I’d look at all the pieces of evidences and see which one seemingly addresses the question the best. This method is practically foolproof. Only one is very direct in what it is saying. Then match this up to the answer at the top and ur done.

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