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99th percentile is "didn't score well" nowadays? (going by the 2018 charts - the ones from when you were presumably in high school are out of 2400 - and in 2012

99th percentile is "didn't score well" nowadays? (going by the 2018 charts - the ones from when you were presumably in high school are out of 2400 - and in 2012 the cutoff for 99th percentile was 2210/2400 [0]) 0: https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-historical-percentiles-for-2014-2013-2012-and-2011 https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-historical-percentiles-for-...

akhilcacharya 7y ago
My superscore was 2230. 99th percentile or not, it’s irrelevant because it’s not good enough to get into any top schools.
- DuskStar 7y ago
  That's actually around the median for Harvard students, IIRC. It's not enough to guarantee your admission, but then 2400 isn't either.
  - akhilcacharya 7y ago
    The median includes recruited athletes and legacies. It’s effectively useless as a measure.
    - DuskStar 7y ago
      Half of Harvard students are athletes and legacies? In any case, my experience was that SAT basically doesn't matter past 2200/2400 - everything after that is extracurriculars, connections and luck.
      - akhilcacharya 7y ago
        I have doubts - most people I know got far more than me and none got into elite institutions. I can’t even imagine how exponentially superior the people who got into multiple must be.
        DuskStar 7y ago
        Oh, I don't mean that getting higher scores makes you likely to get in - only that having a 'low' score (less than 2100, let's say) makes it far harder to the point of being nearly impossible. If you check out some stats from Stanford [0] and MIT [1] you can see that admit rates fall off VERY quickly. For instance, Stanford's fall 2014 freshmen had a 5.1% overall admit rate, climbing to 13% for those who received an 800 on their critical reading SAT but only 2% for those scoring below 600 on the same. Or look at MIT - 9% admit rate for 750+ Math SAT, 0.05% for <700. (Literally one person out of 1828) 0: https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/selection/profile14.html https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/selection/profile14.htm... 1: https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats/ https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats/
        akhilcacharya 7y ago
        Right, I’m in the middle ground where I’m still considered to be exponentially inferior to the admits.

akhilcacharya 7y ago

My superscore was 2230. 99th percentile or not, it’s irrelevant because it’s not good enough to get into any top schools.

DuskStar 7y ago
That's actually around the median for Harvard students, IIRC. It's not enough to guarantee your admission, but then 2400 isn't either.
- akhilcacharya 7y ago
  The median includes recruited athletes and legacies. It’s effectively useless as a measure.
  - DuskStar 7y ago
    Half of Harvard students are athletes and legacies? In any case, my experience was that SAT basically doesn't matter past 2200/2400 - everything after that is extracurriculars, connections and luck.
    - akhilcacharya 7y ago
      I have doubts - most people I know got far more than me and none got into elite institutions. I can’t even imagine how exponentially superior the people who got into multiple must be.
      - DuskStar 7y ago
        Oh, I don't mean that getting higher scores makes you likely to get in - only that having a 'low' score (less than 2100, let's say) makes it far harder to the point of being nearly impossible. If you check out some stats from Stanford [0] and MIT [1] you can see that admit rates fall off VERY quickly. For instance, Stanford's fall 2014 freshmen had a 5.1% overall admit rate, climbing to 13% for those who received an 800 on their critical reading SAT but only 2% for those scoring below 600 on the same. Or look at MIT - 9% admit rate for 750+ Math SAT, 0.05% for <700. (Literally one person out of 1828) 0: https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/selection/profile14.html https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/selection/profile14.htm... 1: https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats/ https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats/
        akhilcacharya 7y ago
        Right, I’m in the middle ground where I’m still considered to be exponentially inferior to the admits.