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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on the school. 1440 is a low score for many schools. [/quote]

It represents being in the top 2% nationally.

https://research.collegeboard.org/reports/sat-suite/understanding-scores/sat

It's crazy you people don't understand the concentrated affluent educated nature of your communities.

It's not really a low score in any kind of way that should reflect negatively on the achiever.

Commended is an honor.  That's why they notify your school about it.  But a lot of schools don't pay attention to the letter.
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You need to look at the User percentile group, which is 95 for 1440. The National percentile is irrelevant (old pre-2016 data that includes non-college-bound students).

Still, 1440 is a good score and I'd probably submit it to most schools.[/quote]

PP.  I wasn't going to get into that.  But just stop and think about your comment.  How it could be an insufficiently impressive achievement to be in the top 5% of SAT takers?  There is a lot of snobbery on this board because of the bubble people in the DMV live in.  That's actually why I moved away to raise kids.  You've got kids that would be top of the class a few states away feeling like runners-up and losers.  Only "good" at what they do. Mainly based on how well they absorbed elementary math and whether they enjoy reading long books.  To me, those are the key skills that lead to preppable success.

(I am a PA National Merit Finalist from long ago.)[/quote]

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