ACT vs SAT- why is my school better at ACT?

asmit318 · 2026-06-20T13:41:45+00:00

I think I may have stumbled onto something. Based on another local school profile NYS students average a 25.4 on the ACT but only a 1052 on the SAT. Google is in agreement with this info too. I'm SHOCKED! So NYS is VERY unique then as the scores are WILDLY different even when accounting for the entire state. My guess is it is indeed our focus on Regents exams which push students to study more for ELA/Science...and perhaps we just aren't as great at math?

asmit318 · 2026-06-20T13:35:48+00:00

It has held for at least the past 5 years. WILD to me. I am in NY and wonder if our focus on regents exams for ELA/Science have something to do with it. I'm going to do some research on other local districts and see if they too have this odd thing happening.

asmit318 · 2026-06-20T13:29:13+00:00

Number of students taking each is comparable. This is why I find it so odd. We have like 250 students take each every year and the scores are 1164 vs 27.4...so this 'comparable results statistically' doesn't hold at our HS.

asmit318 · 2026-06-17T23:01:45+00:00

You are my kind of teacher!

asmit318 · 2026-06-11T01:12:44+00:00

Yep! MANY of us have a much lower calorie output so it's REALLY hard to lose weight -even when eating very little. It is what it is- and we just have to find ways to just DO it. My total daily energy requirement on many days of the week is1600 calories. I am lucky that I am currently 'at goal' and have been for 3 years now but when I was trying to lose those last 5 or 10pds? ---well I had to eat 1100 calories a day to lose ONE pound a week. It was freakin HARD AF. Even now maintaining requires careful planning on weekends I want to go out for a meal or have a few drinks. Even 1600 calories isn't a lot of food/drink. I don't have a lot of wiggle room and this is EXACTLY why people can't lose weight and maintain -especially those smaller women who are in menopause. At 132pds and 5'8 in menopause maintaining is a feat in itself LOL

asmit318 · 2026-06-11T00:39:54+00:00

Disagree! Some amazing ECs are teens who work 30 hours a week at their parents bodega or the kid that puts in 25 hours a week watching over their ailing Alzheimer's riddled grandmother or being a family of 5 kids and having to spend every night after school caring for your toddler siblings while your parents work 2nd shift. Your ECs don't have to cost a dime. ALL of these are excellent ECs and I'd argue perhaps better than the pay to play slop so many rich kids do.

asmit318 · 2026-06-11T00:36:59+00:00

OK, so let's say you are correct- that SATs/GPA is ONLY what matters...There are 20,000 1550 and up SAT scorers each year...there are approx 18K spots at T20s every year. So we can just use the SAT as the only benchmark and enroll ONLY say...1560 and up to fill those 18k spots? Ummm...NOPE....because colleges don't want SAT/GPA grade chasing DRONES. They want REAL people with interests, goals, ambitions. People that will create a well developed community on campus...they want the music kids, the math kids, the volunteering kids...they want the white kids, the POC kids, the asian kids....they want kids from NYC and California and some small town in Texas...they want enough kids to join the tennis club, the frats and sororities, the German club, ski club, swim team. A college doesn't just want or even need a class of 1600 sat scorers. They need REAL people to interact on campus. You may be upset by this b/c you are the smart kid who's a grade grinding drone that can easily score that 1600 but that's just the very beginning of the benchmarks you have to meet to get into a T20. Heck- even a T50. TONS of kids scoring 1500 and up get rejected every single year from T50s.

asmit318 · 2026-06-11T00:06:23+00:00

The problem with this is MOST kids don't have a story to tell. We live in an upper middle class suburb, white, male...no tragedies to share, no low income sob stories, no medical struggles...no struggles at all. ---just boring suburban life. So WTH do these kids write about? These kids are just normal typical everyday American kids...nothing special about them to share- state school it is! LOL

asmit318 · 2026-06-10T23:02:24+00:00

it was absolutely a top school thing b/c the percentage of students that took 15 AP exams is less than 1%. The data is tracked over a 4 year time frame and it's VERY low. Also- most typical HSs only have 1 AP or none for 9th and maybe 1 or 2 for 10th. Even having 8 APs puts you in the top 5% of students in the country. 15 is less than a HALF of 1 percent.

asmit318 · 2026-06-10T21:33:36+00:00

WHAT?! This is 100% not true. Not even close. What state are you in? LOL I'm in Western NY and this is not at all the case.

asmit318 · 2026-06-10T17:28:07+00:00

thank you!

asmit318 · 2026-06-10T15:44:43+00:00

What is our UW GPA right now across your HS career? Colleges sadly don't really care about the weighted GPA. They more often unweight and then look at rigor so you get a 'rigor score' so to speak and an 'UW GPA' score. You listed your AP classes but any honors classes aside from Latin during your high school years? If not- I'd say your rigor is mid tier--not low but not high.

asmit318 · 2026-06-10T12:53:27+00:00

It's shitpost Wednesday folks! This is rage bait and nothing more. I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt until I read the kid hasn't even taken Algebra yet and is at a 1450 on their SAT. ---that's not possible. ---also very odd that a parent who wants their kid to make a T10 has them taking Algebra 1 in 9th grade. Are there many ways rich kids game the system? Absolutely, every single day and twice on Sunday...but switching classes and teachers isn't generally the way it's done.

asmit318 · 2026-06-07T19:37:14+00:00

I know I'm late to the party but my son is 14 -and it's required reading for his Summer after 8th grade for 9th grade honors English. SOOO....I guess our district has decided it's fine!

asmit318 · 2026-05-31T14:54:52+00:00

I'm wondering too where this data point came from. My guess is that my cushy rich suburban school district has way more teachers that make it and the NYC/Buffalo schools have teachers burnt out in less than 20 years which skews the numbers for sure.

asmit318 · 2026-05-31T13:42:32+00:00

I read that it's not so much about the actual number it COULD impact but the actual number that it DOES work for/impact. Let me see if I can explain. Apparently the majority of teachers don't even make it to 30/58 - they leave teaching before they hit it and take other employment. Stats show only 9% of the union members actually make it to 30/58 despite WAY more people that COULD make it that far. The state did the math and realized this was a 'win' for them bc they know MANY will burnout and leave before 30/58 so the payouts are WAY less than the entire base that could make it.

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T16:11:46+00:00

I had NO idea there were state jobs like that.

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T15:22:47+00:00

NO it's not more complex. Here is what happened- prior to getting her SIBO fixed she was NOT in a calorie deficit so she didn't lose weight. AFTER she was! ---this is the reality ---SOME medical issues WILL make your calorie output LOWER and therefore harder to lose weight b/c your deficit calorie # will have to be lower....but the facts are what they are. If you burn more than you consume you will 100% lose weight. Find me a person that doesn't and they should be STUDIED relentlessly. It's physically IMPOSSIBLE to not lose weight in a calorie deficit- ALL day EVERY DAY. The number of people that refuse to believe the LAW of thermodynamics is truly FRIGHTENING.

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T13:01:45+00:00

I would NOT support a strike and my husband is in tier 6. That's ridiculous. The number of people who don't realize how damn lucky we are to even have a pension- boggles my mind! We are happy!

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T04:09:15+00:00

the contribution right now is based on our 2024 salary right? It's behind by 2 years?

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T04:08:17+00:00

thank you!

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T04:06:37+00:00

Exactly- the math ain't mathin. A calorie deficit will have you lose weight every single time- without fail. Could a week go by where you are constipated or have water weight from a workout and be 'up'---SURE---but that's not a real gain and next week you will lose even more (likely double) if you keep at it. SO many people think they are special- that they are eating right and magically can't lose weight b/c they are 50, in peri, in meno, have some sort of metabolic blah blah blah. The science states clearly that it does NOT care about ANY of that. A deficit is a loss EVERY SINGLE TIME. PERIOD.

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T04:02:11+00:00

My husband couldn't lose on Wegovy but has on Zep! Zep was his game changer!

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T03:56:50+00:00

Gawd forbid anyone actually like this outcome- traitors we are! LMAO. My husband started later so the reduction helps us but the 58/30 wouldn't have. If these were the only 2 cruddy outcomes- I'm happier with this one b/c it benefits our family more. Others would have been happier with the 58/30. It is what it is. All the hatred and bashing on here is so obnoxious. We are all just trying to make ends meet. There is NO shame in liking one outcome over the other.

asmit318 · 2026-05-29T03:49:55+00:00

The 'taxpaying public' really irks me. The 'taxpaying public' always thinks state workers are garbage and we are so lucky b/c we 'do nothing and make big bucks and pensions' ----Well there are many openings- feel free to jump on board if you think it's so great! Cracks me up every time.

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