Where did your kid with high 1400s SATs end up?

[Anonymous]

DC has near perfect grades, excellent rigor, strong and unique but not mind-blowing extracurriculars, but hasn't been able to crack 1500 on the SATs. Verbal score is higher than math but not by all that much. Where did your kid with this profile end up (or get in and seriously consider attending)?

[Anonymous]

Super score?

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt

[Anonymous]

Super score is 750V/720M.

[Anonymous]

1450 SAT, top GPA, high rigor, leadership etc, William and Mary, OOS

[Anonymous]

1450 superscore, UVA

[Anonymous]

LACs, with test scores submitted, and apply widely.

[Anonymous]

USC

[Anonymous]

A high 1400 could get into almost any school but for ecs that are not extraordinary

[Anonymous]

Tufts ED

[Anonymous]

VCU

[Anonymous]

There is a big difference between high 1400's and mid 1500's. An appreciable one to admissions officers. Look at the Harvard SFFA data, the Dartmouth study, Caltech, etc.

2 million SAT test takers in 2025
1470 97th percentile
60,000 score 1470 or above
1560 99.5 percentile
10,000 score 1560 or above

Superscoring in the 1400's is common and easy. Superscoring above 1560 is difficult and uncommon. Books have been written about this on regression to the mean, ceiling effect, etc.

Half of all 1560+ SAT scorers attend a T20 college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a big difference between high 1400's and mid 1500's. An appreciable one to admissions officers. Look at the Harvard SFFA data, the Dartmouth study, Caltech, etc.

2 million SAT test takers in 2025
1470 97th percentile
60,000 score 1470 or above
1560 99.5 percentile
10,000 score 1560 or above

Superscoring in the 1400's is common and easy. Superscoring above 1560 is difficult and uncommon. Books have been written about this on regression to the mean, ceiling effect, etc.

Half of all 1560+ SAT scorers attend a T20 college.

That was not the assignment.

[Anonymous]

1450 at UVA

[Anonymous]

Ended up into 3 T20s, but test optional