My younger son got his SAT scores this week and did very well. He did 680 on the analytical and 580 on the reading. The 680 is a little above average for University of Florida students, where he wants to attend and where his parents graduated, and the 580 is about average. With his GPA (3.7 unweighted), he's probably already in the University of Florida but he's so competitive he's going to re-take the SAT so that he doesn't have the second-highest SAT in the family. He wanted so badly to beat my 1300.
Son got his SAT results
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Cool, It's good to see your son is motivated to do well. I can't even remember what I got on the SATs. It ended up not mattering anyway since I decided to go to a community college and then transfer.
Aren't SAT's based out of 2400 now?
Yes they are. Im in a pre-sat class right now. So if he didn't beat 1300...then he did pretty bad....
Actually G8 only posted his Math and English scores which together is what a 1260, which is pretty good. With the essay he probably got around 1700-2000 which is really good, to me anyway
actually, with Ap/honors it more like 4.8-5.0
Nice. I was much better on my ACT than SAT, although I think both tests are ****in stupid.
Phate, yeah, they have three sections now, so the total is 2400. My son did 560 on the third sectoin. A lot of universities still use the first 2 parts (i.e., based on a max of 1600) for comparison with older results.
Son hasn't specified what he wants to major in and I agree it is too early. But, he is likely to be a hard science or engineering major.
And with honors and AP classes that had bonus points, his weighted gpa is > 4.0
Son hasn't specified what he wants to major in and I agree it is too early. But, he is likely to be a hard science or engineering major.
And with honors and AP classes that had bonus points, his weighted gpa is > 4.0
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I agree to an extent. Especially considering what college costs these days. Just because you have a degree does not guarantee the career you want.
However, I think that many people my age went to college where they got mediocre grades and a useless degree with full expectations for an awesome job that paid a lot. That just doesn't happen in real life and colleges/universities are all to eager to cash your tuition check and not inform students of career prospects and the burden of repaying student loans.
The few people I know that got degrees in accounting, engineering, or hard sciences have good jobs that pay well.
My advice would be to keep a close eye on the job market. Your son seems to be a smart kid, it would be a shame if he put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into a degree for nothing.
Maybe where your at.
Places like UCLA, UCI, Berkely the average GPA is 4.2 and up.( cousin at berkely has a 4.7)
Colleges look at your unweighted GPA ( without honors and AP ) and your weighted GPA as well.
However, a lot of job markets are cyclical. What looks good now may be in recession 4-5 years from now and vice-versa.
But a graduate in a math based subject (e.g. math, science, engineering, math-based economics, or math-based finance) is likely to have more options later, even if the job market in his/her major is thin at the time of graduation.