Then I googled 'sat story'. One site I read was of William Sidell. The interesting part was that he had designed the site just for Stanford University meaning he wanted to get into Stanford and mad this site up to impress them. I donot know if he got into Stan for the class of 2014 or not but his sat story was quite interesting. Some of you may get some inspirations!
Extracted from: williamsidell.com/stanfordu/sat.html
Most people take the SAT sometime in their Junior or Senior year in high school. I decided to take in January of 2009 to see how I would perform and I received the score of 1730. I was fairly upset to see that I didn't score higher, so I decided that I would take the SAT again in May after doing a little bit of preparation. In May, I received a score of 1840.
At this point I was at least somewhat satisfied that my score had improved but I was not satisfied in the sense that I knew that I could easily do better, so I signed up for the June test. In June I received a 1940. Now having a 100 point increase two times in a row, I decided "What would be the harm in taking it again?" So in November of 2009, I took the SAT again and received a 2080. I was finally pleased with myself; I had gone from a 600 Critical Reading score to a 740 (2 questions away from an 800), a 550 Writing score to a 710, and a 580 Math to a 680 (if I include my highest math score.)
If I took my best score from each section, my overall score increased 400 points from a 1730 to an 2130.
The one surprising thing about my score is that I did not score well in math. I took several practice tests in Math before taking the SAT for the last time and consistently scored over 700. While I am good at math questions, I believe my problem was due to incorrectly reading the questions.
Overall, I believe that my experience with the SAT has taught me that no matter how bad a situation seems, you often have the power to alter your situation. One of the things that I believe helped my SAT score the most was reading several books about physics over the summer. The authors of the books had such incredible writing prose that I believe my ability to read and write increased dramatically, in turn affecting my reading and writing scores.
