Boy oh boy, SAT stories...
On a serious note first, I took it twice. The first time, I felt like I did poorly, and ended up with a 2100. The second, I felt I nailed it, and instead dropped something like 150 points. Curves play into it a lot, and it's easy to make a silly little mistake under the pressure of the test (or a great guess), and you can't really know how it went until the scores come in.
But on a more humorous side...
I took the PSAT twice as well.
And I misspelled my name.
Twice.
Year one, I mixed up where the first name and last name should go, and caught my mistake. But I forgot to un-bubble the extra letters of my last name. Joseph Gallagher became Josepher Gallagher.
Next year, I made the same mistake. Except I didn't catch it. The test results were adressed to Gallagher Joseph.
My second year scores were good enough to put me into the first round for the National Merit scholarship, so this time, it was important to correct it. So after a few phone calls, I got my name back to normal. But the damage had been done. My scores had been sent out to, seemingly, every single college in the world, under three names. The colleges immediately began to send
three seperate, identical mailings to my house, asking me to apply. Same with e-mails. To this day, I get stray e-mails and pamphlets in sets of three: one addressed to Josepher, one to Gallagher, and one to Joseph.
Moral of the story: As long as you are intelligent enough to spell your name right, don't worry too much about your scores. And even if you're not, some colleges will still let you in
