A test designed by ETS (Educational Testing Service) to screw you over. ETS is a non-profit organization, or so those bastards claim, until you drive up to
New York and see them playing on their huge gulf course with $
300,000 cars parked in the lot. Oh, wait, I forgot to ask how much that gulf course costs.
Those who do
well love it, those who don'
t hate it.
A very unfair test. A
guy with average SAT scores can
get straight A's in high school taking all AP classes, a super lazy smart ass who don'
t do shit in high school can still score a 2300. Basically fucks up the
guy with
4.7 GPA who could've got into an Ivy League and even get a
4.0 there. Very fair indeed.
That basically tells you that the test is biased as hell towards so-called "more capable"
people who supposeldy have "loads of intelligence" and "potential." Bullshit.
A test the colleges can do without, but use it anyway to distinguish among similarly qualified applicants with close GPAs. Like they give a damn if the test is unfair, they can'
t come up with a fair test themselves anyway. No one can.
People who lived in the US and learned English for fewer than 5 years will struggle on the verbal and writing section of SAT. The fact that they don'
t make an alternative test for these folks is just plain bullshit. TOFL doesn'
t even count. If you get a 500 on verbal you're DONE, they'll take that instead of TOLFL and instead your true potential of actually scoring a goddamn 700+ if you lived here longer.
2000/2400, 4.7 GPA: "So you taking the SAT tomorrow?"
2350/2400, 3.1 PA: "Yes. I got 2350 last
time and I want a 2400!"
Guy 1: *smiles and quickly walks away* *Mumbles to himself* "Fucking rich assholes who don'
t understand that there are too many things that don'
t add up on this test!"