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SAT scores came out, i haven't slept sincelike 330 a.m. because i was too dammed excited

800 critical reading 99th percentile
790 on math 99th percentile
740 on writing 98th percentile

on the old SATs (the one i imagine most of you guys took) it would have been a 1590, out of 1600.
new SATs thats 2330 out of 2400

If you know much about SAT scores, then you know that's VERY GOOD.

either way i'm ridiculously pleased with myself

Here I come, Ivy League
 
Congratulations! That's AWESOME!!!!

Good luck to you on your future journey.
 
Damn dude, well played. That blows my score away, I know that much!

Well you obviously are no doofus, so I hope you are taking some AP classes? Boy, if I could go back 6 years knowing what I know now...I would have taken so many.
 
Those are some sick scores! My son got his scores back today (reading 610, math 720) which are very good, but yours are nearly perfect!
 
AZN_Dave said:
SAT scores came out, i haven't slept sincelike 330 a.m. because i was too dammed excited

800 critical reading 99th percentile
790 on math 99th percentile
740 on writing 98th percentile

on the old SATs (the one i imagine most of you guys took) it would have been a 1590, out of 1600.
new SATs thats 2330 out of 2400

If you know much about SAT scores, then you know that's VERY GOOD.

either way i'm ridiculously pleased with myself

Here I come, Ivy League
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Holy ****! Good work! You're the man, Dave
 
Wow man, I am impressed!! If your GPA and extra curricula’s match those scores you should be sitting pretty when it comes to college applications!
 
Hah, thanks everyone.

and yeah, I have the AP classes/GPA to match. By the end of senior year, which is next year for me, I'll have taken 13 of 14 available AP classes at my high school. can't take 14 because it's French and I take spanish.

Interestingly enough, as soon as I found out devoting myself to fitness, was the same almost as devoting myself to studying, I became better in both of them, they like played off eachother.

Too bad affirmative action makes it (in my opinion) unfairly difficult for asian males to make it into some upper/Ivy League schools. Though, I'm fairly optimistic, and besides, even if I don't make it I'll still have finished my cut by then!
 
How does affirmative action make it more difficult for you? explain please.. I don't know a lot about the program. Are blacks favoured before Asians or something? I thought the supreme court ruled against affirmative action because it was discriminatory or something..
 
Karky... I wouldn't say that affirmative action "favors" one race over another, but it requires schools to have a certain percentage of Caucasians, African Americans, Asians, Men, Women, etc It takes a lot of importance away from how qualified each individual is, and puts more emphasis on their race/gender/religion...

Excuse my huge generalization, but there are probably more Asian men applying to be part of the schools required percentage (think racial academic "parking spaces") than some other races. Not to mention that the mandated percentage for this ethnicity and gender may be lower than that for African American and while males.
 
Congrats Dave, that's one hell on an accomplishment! Keep that mindset through undergrad, and graduate school and you'll do great!
 
Thanks Mreik!

Karky said:
How does affirmative action make it more difficult for you? explain please.. I don't know a lot about the program. Are blacks favoured before Asians or something? I thought the supreme court ruled against affirmative action because it was discriminatory or something..
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Well, let me explain.
The vast majority of asian kids have asian parents (when i say asian i mean oriental at least, China, Korea, Japan) of the same mindset. Get good grades Meaning As or A+ (A- means you're dumb and B+ means you're a retard) so you can go to a good college (top 50) or Ivy league (top 8). THat being said, about 90% of asian males get very good grades on the SAT
let's look at this in percentiles.

lets say 1000 caucasians 1000 asians

a certain school with an undergraduate class of 1000 kids. allows 70% caucasian and 15% asian kids.
Say it is a rough estimate that about 10-20% of the caucasians have the SAT/GPA/whatever, required to go. that's about about 100-200 kids applying for the same 700 person slot, so in fact, the standards will be lowered and up to 700 caucasian kids will be accepted.
Say it is a rough estimate that 90% of the asian kids have the scores to go.
900 asian kids will be squeezing into a 150 person slot. Therefore making admittance more selective (you'll need even HIGHER scores to get in because everyone has such high scores), coupled with the fact that there is a smaller alloted amount for asian kids.
Certain nationalities can get away with much lower scores simply because of demographics and average scores among that nationality.

btw, I wasn't trying to suggest that asian people are superior intellectually or whatever, but I'm just saying the vast majority of asian kids dedicate their time to studying, while most caucasian parents are certainly not putting similar pressures on their kids as asian parents.

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so to answer your question no blacks aren't "favoured before asians" nor are any other race, however, there are simply more asian people with higher average grades trying to squeeze into smaller spots.
Pretty much how skian put it.

I believe the supreme court case you are referring to is BAkke v. someone. I don't really know about it though.
 
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The vast majority of asian kids have asian parents (when i say asian i mean oriental at least, China, Korea, Japan) of the same mindset. Get good grades Meaning As or A+ (A- means you're dumb and B+ means you're a retard) so you can go to a good college (top 50) or Ivy league (top 8).
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You'll probably find that south Asian parents similarly would like their children to do well in school.

Consider the selection biases in immigration. An immigrant is likely from the most motivated section of the population in his/her original country, since s/he felt that s/he had to move to a completely foreign country to succeed. And immigrants from Asia (and perhaps even more so south Asia) to the US have a high percentage of those who originally came on student or work visas (e.g. F-1 and H-1B), which imposes an additional selection bias in favor of those who know the value of a good education. When they become parents in the US, it is not surprising that they would like their children to do well in school (and do things to enable it, like read to them instead of putting them in front of the TV, make sure that they do their homework and help them understand it, etc.).

Some tips on universities: while the Ivy League has the prestige, there are plenty of other universities where you can get a very good education. If you live in a state where the state university is one of them, consider whether the local state university offers a very good education in what you want to study, since it can cost a lot less (less student loans needed, etc.).

Once you get there, note that courses with labs like chemistry, physics, and biology (or large project courses like some computer science courses) tend to be about twice as much work as those without labs like English, math, economics, etc.. But they do not give twice as much credit, so plan course loads accordingly.
 
AZN_Dave said:
I believe the supreme court case you are referring to is BAkke v. someone. I don't really know about it though.
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Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FindLaw | Cases and Codes

Basically, it allowed race to be considered in admissions, but not used as a quota. It was a rather split decision in that there were five concurrence / dissent opinions written in addition to the majority opinion written by Justice Lewis Powell. Confused yet?
 
tjl said:
Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FindLaw | Cases and Codes

Basically, it allowed race to be considered in admissions, but not used as a quota. It was a rather split decision in that there were five concurrence / dissent opinions written in addition to the majority opinion written by Justice Lewis Powell. Confused yet?
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Eh, luckily i didn't have to write about that in AP Gov't.
Though unfortunately I was stuck with some lame O'Connor v. Donaldson case. Deinstitutionalization is a really lame topic...

You'll probably find that south Asian parents similarly would like their children to do well in school.
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well, I imagine so. I said at least oriental because I am sure of that particular group of asian immigrants.
 
I wouldn't be suprised if most students in my university are asian. That doesn't necessarily mean they're smarter, it could be because the majority of asian intellectuals go abroad to study at more prestigious locations and so on. Their nature of being disiciplined and making the most of their opportunity would also account :p

I've already started studying for GAMSAT which is the hardest of all tests! torture.
 
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