My Soul

is worth between 6 and 24 hundred. At least that is what it feels like, as though my SAT Score is the feather my heart is weighed against to see whether I may continue into the afterlife of a good college. I took the SAT in early October and was not too worried about it then. It was very boring and extremely stressful-but I thought I had done pretty well. Now that I have gotten my scores however, I'm not so sure, in fact I'm not sure of anything relating to the test. Is my score good? Bad? Mediocre? I looked up the percentile scores of the 2008 graduating class of California (the latest percentiles available at the moment from CollegeBoard) and compared my scores. They weren't too stupendously shabby, but then again, I want to go to a private university, regardless of whether or not that is considered prissy or stuck up. So I went an looked up the average scores of the major Ivy League and Liberal Arts colleges. On my one of my scores I could technically get into Princeton, Cornell and Brown, but the other two aren't up to par. Middlebury and Reed are in reach for the one score, again again the other two are just below the cutoff. Does this mean my scores are good? I haven't gotten the SAT Score Report yet, which will hopefully clarify what I'm supposed to gather from these scores, but right now those scores are not looking too fantastic. Nine little numbers seem to contain within themselves the power to decide my future, predict the course of my life, and they just don't look good enough.