I have low SAT scores, can I still go to college?

Folks, its only a test.  (You do know the College Board is making a profit from SAT takers, right?)  So the answer is YES! of course you can go to college... so what, you suck at taking the SAT.  There isn't a college admission officer alive who won't admit that SAT scores are not a valid predictor of how a student will do in college.  Even the College Board was forced to admit that high school GPA is the best predictor of college success, not the SAT.  That's right: GPA is the best predictor of college success.

Can you forget about your SAT scores?  Just blow them off?  No, colleges do look at them so you want to make sure you get the best score you can but please, keep it in perspective.   The higher your GPA the less your SAT scores matter.  If you have a solid GPA (3.5 or higher) you can be perfectly content with a mediocre SAT score (450-500 on each section) as it is your high school GPA that the colleges care the most about.  And don't forget the other college admissions factors:  what else you've been doing with your time (composing music, becoming an Eagle Scout, working to help support your family, etc) and those impressively hard Advanced Placement classes you've been taking.  These factors all work together to boost you into the college of your dreams.

If you aren't great at the SAT: make yourself great at something else and colleges will be bending over backwards to admit you.