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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a big difference between high 1400's and mid 1500's.  An appreciable one to admissions officers. Look at the Harvard SFFA data, the Dartmouth study, Caltech, etc.

2 million SAT test takers in 2025
1470 97th percentile
60,000 score 1470 or above
1560 99.5 percentile
10,000 score 1560 or above

Superscoring in the 1400's is common and easy.  Superscoring above 1560 is difficult and uncommon. Books have been written about this on regression to the mean, ceiling effect, etc.

Half of all 1560+ SAT scorers attend a T20 college. 
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But what about a 1490 in one sitting? 98th percentile and it would be noted that it's one sitting?[/quote]

If you get a 1540 on your next test, the college will also see that as one sitting (at all but the very few that don't make you submit all scores Georgetown, MIT, etc.). It will have no idea you took it earlier and only got a 1490.[/quote]

My daughter submitted a 33 and a 34 ACT to Georgetown and was admitted REA. Everywhere else, she submitted the superscore of 35.[/quote]

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