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[quote=Anonymous]Every year, lots of kids with middling SSAT scores get into “top” high schools. The people who tell you that only scores above the 90th percentile are serious candidates do not know what they are talking about: either they are assuming that their (very high scoring} kid is average, or they are trying to scare you for sick reasons of their own. Even school such as Exeter, with an average SSAT score of above 85%, take lots of kids with scores well below that. Admissions officers aren’t idiots. They know exactly how much (or how little) these scores mean. Most schools will take a good kid with strong grades and recs but weak scores over an obnoxious brat with 99th% scores any day of the week. If your child has weak scores AND weak grades, that’s a problem. But a kid with weak or inconsistent scores and a track record of good grades at a good school will do fine. [/quote]
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