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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Yale admissions podcast comes out and says what one poster above said: once a kid crosses a threshold--I think it was 710 or 720 per section--they are done with the SAT portion and don't think about it anymore. The quality of everything else in the app is what matters after that. I think a lot of people here are trying to make a 1590 matter a lot more than it actually does relative to low 1500s.[/quote]

Can you tell me episode this was? I've listed to most/all of them and I do not remember them saying this specifically.

What I do remember them saying is (something to the effect): [b]Once you've cleared an academic threshold, which is a combination of grades, rigor and testing, that they move on to other sections of your application, rarely ever returning to discuss the academics.[/b] As such, the difference between a 1530 and a 1570 means very little.

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Yes, this is a point they hammer home.[/quote]

Do you really believe them? Because the numbers don't bear that out.  Remember, these are the same people that suckered everyone into believing that "you are more than your SAT" and here they are making you submit one.  If the elite privates have figured out that SAT scores predict performance, rationally a higher SAT scorer is one that the institution will value more.  As has been demonstrated there is a big difference between a 1510 and a 1570, both in terms of raw number of scorers who achieve such a result and how verifiably colleges treat a 1510 scorer versus a 1570 scorer.  Harvard, Dartmouth and Caltech objectively favor the higher scorer applicant.

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