Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions...
by foobarian on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:25PM
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I guess not exactly. But still looks pretty crowded at the top end: https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Harvard-SAT-score...
Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions...
by giantg2 on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:30PM
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Looks like it's 1% between 1550-1600. I couldn't find stats for an actual perfect score. Saying it's crowded I guess is ok, but is a matter of perspective. Like the top 1% of income earners saying their yacht club is crowded. Maybe true, but only for a very small number of people who could choose to go somewhere else if they actually wanted to.
http://go.collegewise.com/how-many-people-get-a-perfect-sat-...
I got a pretty low/average score, but took the test early in junior year so I hadn't taken some of the more advanced math courses yet. I never took it again since I got into everywhere I applied to (didn't apply to ivy league, obviously). Seemed like most other kids I knew did similarly with the smartest kids maybe 150 points higher (2400 time-frame). Nobody I know got a perfect score, or even close to it.
Edit: man, after talking about this I want to see what my score was exactly. No way am I paying $30 for an archived score though. I want to say it was only 1200/1600 (the schools only wanted 2 of the sections). But I'm not sure I trust my memory for something so inconsequential from that long ago.
Extra edit: found my old score report. It's worse than I thought. The writing was 570 (74th percentile) and math was 510 (47th percentile). I'm a lot dumber than I remember.