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Does it matter after college what the score was? No, but it does matter in getting into the university that will provide your major. If your child wants to major in Liberal Arts of some sort, there are lots of options in universities. In our case: my son is saying he wants Biomedical Engineering/PreMed. There are a handful of those. I will help any way I can to help him get into the program of his choice.
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For someone going into PreMed for example, does it really matter if their undergrad is done at Duke, Wake Forest, Davidson, Campbell or USC? All are awesome imo, and a star performer is gonna write their own ticket regardless of choice...just my .02. I just think that sometimes the focus on getting into the "prestigious" schools is somewhat overrated....YMMV. I have a relative who just entered med school at Wake....undergrad at Campbell, and he's gonna write his own ticket. Another did hers via Harvard/Stanford (masters)....same. Wouldn't matter where those kids did their undergrad imo....they've got "IT" SmileWavy |
It's been a while. I was really lost until BlueSky posted the quadratic formula. I know it by heart, but it's been so long since I've done any of this that I didn't recognize that it applied here.
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Here in SC a student can get up to $10,000 per year for tuition at a state school for scoring either 1200 on SAT or 28 on ACT. That would pretty much cover tuition for any school here.
As far as schools are concerned: We want an engineering school that has Biomedical Engineering and the cost is low. With a plan of an undergrad and a medical school we want to keep to a budget. |
She's aiming toward an ROTC scholarship or possibly Air Force or Naval Academies. This time next year (her junior year), she'll be in the middle of the application process. My understanding is that the PSAT is a little easier and doesn't really count, but it'll give her practice on taking this sort of test and, like in the case of these problems, show areas where she might need to do some work.
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Good luck on the military academies. Their acceptance rates are some of the lowest of all universities: Somewhere around 15% rate. That would make your daughter the cream of the crop but then again not surprising from you.
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For an Academy, you need to secure an appointment. This is more important than grades.
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To the OP...same advice I gave my daughter: there's some dude on Youtube (don't recall his name, but he's easy to find) who does GREAT tutorials on just about every type of math there is. Have her Google him. |
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for the second same idea but a little more is involved If (x-2) is a factor of the given quadratic then the complete factorization looks like this (x-2)(x-y) where y is the value you are looking for in order to find b working backward by multiplying the 2 factors using the FOIL rule x^2 -yx -2x + 2y you have 2 true expressions to use O + I has to sum to -bx and L has to multiply to be equal to b both of the following are going to be true -yx -2x =-bx because these 2 terms need to add up to the second term in the original quadratic expression, then divide by x to simplify -y-2=-b divide by -1 and swap sides so b=y+2 and 2y = b because the last 2 terms need to multiply to the third term in the original quadratic expression. substituting either of these derived expressions into the other gives 2y = y+2 subtract y from both sides y=2 substitute back into x^2 -yx -2x + 2y x^2 -yx -2x + 2(2) x^2 -yx -2x + 4 so b=4 in the original question |
I volunteered to proctor the PSAT at my son's school this morning. Man that was boring. The kids seemed to take it in stride. But I was in a room of juniors, so they had already taken the PSAT the previous year and most had done some practice.
My son is a sophomore, so he took the PSAT for the first time today. He did a practice test on Sunday, studied his wrong answers on Monday and Tuesday, and that was it. I'm not worried about his score this year. It's a learning experience to help him prepare for the one that counts next year. The PSAT in your junior year matters for National Merit Scholarship consideration. Being a National Merit Scholar is a nice thing, qualifies you for some other scholarships and helps a little in college admissions. |
After reading through this I don't know how I scored so high on my SATs...
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It was a different time: I am not sure about everyone on here but when I was in High School no one took Calculus; it wasn't even offered. Now, if you are planning to go to college for engineering or hard sciences, it is almost required.
The SAT was revamped this year and prior to that in 2005 to make it harder, or so they say. It makes it all the more surprising with the "Math is Hard" posts on here. We have greatly failed our students if we are requiring higher math like Calculus in High School but they can't do simple math in their heads. |
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For the next tier (just below Ivy and elite) schools, is it important to take both the ACT and SAT tests as a junior? Or should the student find which one he/she is good at and concentrate on that? I heard that most schools take either one and count it equally. Wondering what the reality is in terms of school preference. |
I can't help with the math problem, (and have no idea now how I scored well on the PSAT in HS), but my nephew is an applied math major and senior in college. His stories about the math library are hilarious; undergrads are not strange but anyone grad level or older, (instructors), look like they are in a coma. He says it's like an insane asylum. :D
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