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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has a 225 in MD and to be honest the idea that it jumped to 226 is totally throwing me off here. It’s making me re-think if we are being too optimistic about his chances at safeties, targets, and reaches. This just feels so unexpected and outside what we imagined was possible.

It isn’t so much about NMSF, although it would have been nice, but this has shaken our confident in his chances overall even at schools that should be easy safeties. A 225 score felt totally safe for MD NMSF but wasn’t.[/quote]

This is exactly where we are.  My DD got a 226, so she's almost certainly a lock for NMSF.

However, her 1590 on the SAT seemed like it was insanely great last week.  Now, I'm wondering if schools will be getting a ton of applicants with 1590-1600s.  Decided to add in another two safety schools just to be sure.  [/quote]

This is entirely logical to wonder about with the new digital SAT.  Does anyone know what the data says?

My child took the SAT twice and got a wildly different math score.  Got a 630 on the math at the first testing session and then got a 790 the next testing session.  Same amount of rest, etc no significant prep and only about two months between the tests.  Have heard from other parents that the scores have huge swings.  So, if you keep testing, are you are likely to get one of the tests that is easier for one section? And then able to superscore an insanely high score?  [/quote]

I don't know, but my child took the sat three times and received almost the exact same disappointing score every time. So, I think a lot more data is needed to draw any conclusions[/quote]

Yeah, my kid took the digital SAT twice within one week (weekend and school day) and got the exact same score. You can’t argue from anecdotes, you need data.[/quote]

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