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[quote=Anonymous]Hi - I'm far away from the SAT and college but happened into the Colleges and Universities board today which got me going down a wormhole.

I am perplexed by what I am seeing there. I did really, really well on the SATs. I think I had a 1420. This was 99th percentile and really anything above 1400 was outstanding... even 1300+ got people in most places and average to good students got 1100-1200.

For a while they changed the test and the max was no longer 1600. When I heard about SAT scores I no longer had a point of comparison.

I understand it's now back to 1600. But I see posts along the lines of "My kid has a 1420 on their SATs (and other great credentials), will she be able to get into her safety school?"

I googled to make sure the max was still 1600 and came up with this site: https://www.niche.com/blog/the-most-popular-colleges-for-every-sat-score-range/

That indicates that the 75th percentile for Harvard is 1600. Does that mean 25% of kids getting into Harvard are getting 1600? Based on my frame of reference that seems absurb... 1600s were extremely rare. Did something else change about the SATs to raise the average? Or are kids just doing that much better on the test now than 30 years ago?

Just curious!![/quote]

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