Sometimes, it’s hard to see a practical application to your high school classes. If you want to be an Accountant, how does understanding the dramatic irony of MacBeth really help you? And if you want to be a children’s book author, who cares about trigonometry? Similarly, it’s sometime hard to see why your SAT score has such an impact on your college application. If you’re planning on being a theater major, why should your math [subject:'sat' SAT] score matter? Here are the big reason: competition.
Tops school with the best programs have their choice of applicants, so you need to look as impressive as you possibly can to have the best chance at acceptance. The higher your SAT score, the more you will stand out amongst your peers for the school of your choice.
If you have an average SAT score you’ll also need to reply more heavily on your GPA, admissions essays and extra curricular activities to impress the admissions committee. If you’re concern that these are not impressive, or you think you can do better on your SAT, you may want to considering taking the test again.
If you have a low SAT score, you run the risk of having your other accomplishments overlooked simply because there were so many other applicants with higher SAT scores. If you fall into this category, you definitly want to consider [info:'sat-registration-dates' re-writing your SATs] to improve your score.
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