SAT scores?

Question

i just took the SATs and I got a...

matt 600

Reading 590

writing 800

total 1990

I'm only a sophmore so don't be too hard on me. but I do admit that i want to go to Georgetown and i don't think that's up to their standards.

I do a lot of community service and I play piano and play golf.

Answer 1

GREAT writing score! actually your scores don't look too bad at all

but you really do need to try to raise it 100 or 200 points

Answer 2

Compared to the national average, your scores are pretty good. However, I agree with you, Georgetown is hard to get in and they have extremely high standards. Everyone I know who got into Georgetown have 2100+ SAT scores. But they place a greater emphasis on community service, the entrance essay and extracurricular than SAT scores. But every little bit helps when you are applying to such a high ranking school.

You should work on improving your reading. Try getting a couple of prep books by different companies and read their strategy for answering reading questions. Also, you can start memorizing a few vocabs a day. The most helpful thing is to do lots of practice problems. The more problems you do, the easier and faster it'll be. This goes for math too.

Answer 3

sophomore! thats great!  you still got time. your writing is impeccable, but to georgetown they don't really care. They only look at the reading/math scores. Math is so easy to improve though. I think math is easier to get an 800 than writing. I would pick up an SAT book and get cracking on reading/math. Math-work on it more because it's all practice. Reading- sorry to say but no matter how much you practice its going to be hard to raise your score more than hundred points.