SAT Scores & Admissions Offices
- What applicants are told by college Admissions Officers
- College admissions officers will tell you your SAT score is only one factor they use in considering your application. In this order, you will be told they will consider the difficulty of your courses, your grade point average, your extracurricular activities, and your recommendations.
- The
SAT reality
- Many times SAT scores are the ultimate and compelling factor in admission to the most competitive colleges and universities. Thousands of students from thousands of schools must be compared; though each have significantly different courses and grading systems. The ultimate "meaningful" yardstick? How competitive is the school you are applying to, and, ultimately, what was your highest SAT result?
- Reduce your stress
- There's no need to stress about how you will perform on this important
test if you're properly prepared beforehand. Individualized, in-
home SAT
tutoring from BrainTrust
is an ideal way to prepare for the SAT so you can approach the test
calmly and confidently.
We can focus on the subjects you find troublesome, and increase your score on your best topics. While you can take the SAT as many times as you'd like, ideally you'll do so well the first time you won't require second and third attempts. But if you have already taken the test once, we can help you increase your score on your second try.
- Verbal
scores
- Even straight "A" students of two highly educated parents often
are surprised when they fail to score as highly as might be expected
on the SAT verbal section. Why? Your child's education has likely
never been targeted to enhance specialized reading
skills. While the SAT emphasizes short and very dense passages,
very few high school teachers do so. The right answer often centers
around the forceful use of a single word.
- Math
scores
- While the SAT has more math questions that directly correlate with a traditional North Carolina high school curriculum, many excellent students spend an entire year learning Algebra I and Geometry without understanding their interrelation. Thus, students are often surprised to find SAT questions fusing the two subjects.
- Essay
training
- The essay, which counts for up to 40 percent of the student's writing score, is designed as an open ended question. Students have only 25 minutes to assess, craft, write, and edit. Even in the finest North Carolina schools, many teachers never demand such a task in such a short time.
- Writing
/ grammar skills
- Multiple choice questions, which comprise the rest of the Writing test, tend to correlate well with students' ability to focus upon grammar errors, improve sentences, and improve paragraphs. However, since many of these skills are introduced in a North Carolina 5th and 6th grade curriculum, a student who never mastered the basics, or whose school does not often reinforce them, gets left behind.
Our personalized, in-home SAT
test preparation can help your student do his or her best on
this important test.
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Contact BrainTrust today to discover how our unique approach can help maximize your child's SAT score.
