Is 1780 a good SAT score for a 13 year old 8th grader.?

You are doing very well and will have an excellent academic future, As you take more classes, get older and prepare for the test you grades will show improvement. Your job now is to learn from school, obtain a high GPA ,take difficult academic subjects and to have extracurricular and volunteer activities which will help you enjoy yourself, grow , help others, and to establish a good record for college admission./

I think that's fantastic. You can get into any regular college with those scores and would definitely be considered for an Ivy League College. These are the scores Ivy League schools are looking for right now...

Auburn (Main Campus)

•Critical Reading: 520 - 620

•Mathematics: 550 - 650

•Writing: 520 - 620

Carleton

•Critical Reading: 670 - 750

•Mathematics: 660 - 740

•Writing: 640 - 740

Duke

•Critical Reading: 690 - 770

•Mathematics: 690 - 790

•Writing: 680 - 780

Harvard

•Critical Reading: 690 - 800

•Mathematics: 700 - 790

•Writing: 690 - 780

MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

•Critical Reading: 660 - 760

•Mathematics: 720 - 800

•Writing: 660 - 750

Middlebury

•Critical Reading: 630 - 740

•Mathematics: 640 - 740

•Writing: 630 - 740

Pomona

•Critical Reading: 690 - 760

•Mathematics: 680 - 760

•Writing: 680 - 760

Stanford

•Critical Reading: 660 - 760

•Mathematics: 680 - 780

•Writing: 670 - 770

UCLA

•Critical Reading: 570 - 680

•Mathematics: 610 - 720

•Writing: 580 - 690

Show those to your mom and tell her to chill out.

I would say it's good for an 8th grader, but I think the reason you're mom is disappointed is because quite honestly your scores aren't going to increase that much between now and when you take it again junior year (they'll each probably go up a max of 100 pts). You won't really get that much "SAT smarter" within the next three years...

And also, "studying" doesn't help for most people. Taking the test multiple times DOES, but save all that stress for when you're actually in high school and looking to get into college.