First time taking the SAT

Blahblah677 wrote:

I had an Okish SAT score compared to my friends (most of whom where more or less 2200), had a 4.0 unweighted for 4 years. Thing that broke me for privates were my extracurriculars...or lack of any. How'd you go through your school's foreign language program too fast? Skip classes? That reminds me, I have an orientation at Davis soon, and I know how big the school is, but it's just an orientation, so do you think I'll need a bike there? :O

Davis, I'd say you'd need a bike if you're going to live there, but I doubt you'll need one for orientation.

As for the foreign language program:
I went through French at the normal pace, but I won a national award and 3 regional awards on the way.
Started Japanese 1 my sophomore year, got bored and studied to skip to Japanese 4 over the summer. In that time, I overshot and went way above the AP level (max my school offered) and took at class at Berkeley for Intermediate Japanese. I'm now signed up for Advanced Japanese at NYU (good thing too, I need connections with upperclassmen ^^)

Also, my total unweighted GPA was a mere 3.41. Fucking terrible, but it's because I took 6 weighted classes my junior year so my weighted GPA looks okay.

That reminds me, I need to pull up my GPA -.-
How much do IB classes help when getting chosen for colleges?

Shottymaster wrote:

That reminds me, I need to pull up my GPA -.-
How much do IB classes help when getting chosen for colleges?

Not much unless you get A's in them. (or at least B+)

Well I need to get straight A's the next two years anyway, and I'm taking mostly AP and IB classes those years so I'm actually going to do shit instead of lazing around and doing nothing.

Blah just hit me up if you need anything from Davis lol. I'll be here allllll summer LOLOLOL.
But Meph is right. you dont need anything for orientation other than essentials. You really dont need a bike until you actually move into the dorms.

Anyways. SAT scores are bunch of bullshit tests at least for UC system.

I got a couple of friends who scored mid 1400's, didnt do much in school other than a sport or two, and theyre at Cal right now lol. Although they did got pretty good grades, like maybe 4.0+, but still SATS don't mean tooo much anymore nowadays

GstarRawr wrote:

I got a couple of friends who scored mid 1400's, didnt do much in school other than a sport or two, and theyre at Cal right now lol. Although they did got pretty good grades, like maybe 4.0+, but still SATS don't mean tooo much anymore nowadays

Berkeley does a more holistic approach to applications, so grades aren't everything to them. A godly essay will get you into there even if your grades aren't too high.
Most UCs don't even look at your essays, just your grades and tests.

GstarRawr wrote:

Blah just hit me up if you need anything from Davis lol. I'll be here allllll summer LOLOLOL.
But Meph is right. you dont need anything for orientation other than essentials. You really dont need a bike until you actually move into the dorms.

Anyways. SAT scores are bunch of bullshit tests at least for UC system.

I got a couple of friends who scored mid 1400's, didnt do much in school other than a sport or two, and theyre at Cal right now lol. Although they did got pretty good grades, like maybe 4.0+, but still SATS don't mean tooo much anymore nowadays

Reason why I asked if I'll need a bike is because isn't the orientation 3 days and 2 nights or so? Plus I don't know where the placement tests and class registration will take place so will I need a bike for those few days to get around from place to place?

No, at orientation, you're not going to be in a rush to get between classes.
Bringing a bike would be nice, but definitely not necessary.

For Gstar/Shane: How were the math placement tests for Davis? Apparently all incoming freshmen or so need to take it and I haven't had calculus for a year (Senior year had no math classes).
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/undergrad/math_placement/
I'm taking it July 5 -14 and I just want to make sure there won't be material that'll catch me by surprise.

Heh, I'm exempted from taking a math class because I passed the basic math placement exam ^^

Calculus is bullshit at my school because the only teacher licensed to teach precalc and up is old, partially deaf, and sucks at teaching.

Blah I'll just PM you everything lol