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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have him try the ACT! My kid studied for & took the SAT twice. Had to take the ACT as it’s required for public high school students in NC. Did better. Your kid could surprise you with a 34-35.

Did your kid do much prep for the ACT? I could encourage DS to take it but can't imagine he will want to start prepping all over again, maybe beyond just taking a practice test.

Basically none (I think just one practice has to get a sense of the pacing since it’s different). But the studying she did for the SAT somehow translated to her doing well on the ACT. That was my point!

Thanks pp! I will suggest this to DS, really appreciate your help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Columbia. Test scores submitted.

wow. where ECs stand out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago ED

wow

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia. Test scores submitted.

wow. where ECs stand out?

Just being an interesting person.

[Anonymous]

1490 vanderbilt. But then his brother did not get into vandy with better allover application and 35 ACT. Differnce was first kid wanted to be ( and is now) a high school chem teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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)?

UVA. Brown. We chose UVA for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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)?

UVA. Brown. We chose UVA for obvious reasons.

The only obvious one is $$. Hope it was that…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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)?

UVA. Brown. We chose UVA for obvious reasons.

LOL.

DCUM never fails to amuse.

[Anonymous]

1410 superscore (770M/640E).
Got into CWRU, Wisconsin (committed) after waitlisting.
Got into Lehigh (TO), Villanova (TO), TAMU, WPI, RPI, Rose Hulman, UMN, UCONN.
Rejected from USC, BU, UMD, UIUC, UF.
Still waitlisted at NC State, UW-Seattle.
Engg major (not CS or Comp Engg)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1410 superscore (770M/640E).
Got into CWRU, Wisconsin (committed) after waitlisting.
Got into Lehigh (TO), Villanova (TO), TAMU, WPI, RPI, Rose Hulman, UMN, UCONN.
Rejected from USC, BU, UMD, UIUC, UF.
Still waitlisted at NC State, UW-Seattle.
Engg major (not CS or Comp Engg)

Did you read the title?

But congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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)?

UVA. Brown. We chose UVA for obvious reasons.

LOL.

DCUM never fails to amuse.

Not amusing. Brown is $97,116 a year. UVA is $42,000 a year. $390,000 minus 168,000 equals approx. $232,000 is savings.

[Anonymous]

35 ACT one sitting. UVA.

[Anonymous]

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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.

But what about a 1490 in one sitting? 98th percentile and it would be noted that it's one sitting?

lol admissions officers do not care about "one sitting", only DCUM thinks that means something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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)?

UVA. Brown. We chose UVA for obvious reasons.

LOL.

DCUM never fails to amuse.

Not amusing. Brown is $97,116 a year. UVA is $42,000 a year. $390,000 minus 168,000 equals approx. $232,000 is savings.

Makes sense…except the part that your kid should not have applied to schools that were within the family’s financial parameters. What was the purpose of it.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely no one should be surprised at high 1400 kids getting into top schools. It is a holistic process. They will beat out higher scorers who don’t offer as much.