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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a broken record here but once you hit the threshold, it doesn’t matter for the HYP of the world.

It does matter for a school like Duke or Vandy.

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It matters too at JHU Penn.  That said, they have gotten so many 1580+ applying to JHU and Penn.  Sometimes it gives you an illusion that they don't care but they do.  Any school outside HYPMS all cares a great deal about your test score.

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Those who want to believe that somehow a [b]1580 is actually viewed differently than a 1570 [/b]will keep deluding themselves. Nothing that anyone says will convince them otherwise. Likewise, those who believe that MIT somehow considers a 770 different than a 780 (though both may result from the exact same number of missed questions) because of their bucketing example which was an example rather than a hard rule will likewise never be convinced otherwise.

Others will settle into what the vast majority of informed voices say which is that above a certain point other factors take over.

Pick your poison because neither group is listening to the other but as you pick remember that correlation isn't causation.[/quote]

Views are changing.

A year ago, people would challenge "somehow a 1580 is actually viewed differently than a [b]1500[/b] will keep deluding themselves."  Now they don't say 1500 anymore.  Because they also believe 1580 is different from 1500 in kind.  [/quote]

A 1580 is different than a 1500, it always has been. The rule of thumb was that you were fine once you crossed the bar and that generally still holds true. People who believe that schools look at small gradations in scores to boost USNWR rankings are kidding themselves.

A 1580 isn't any different than a 1560 as they could both result from missing the exact same number of questions depending on the individual test. That is what seems lost to many. People also don't realize that an 800 isn't necessarily perfect and that a miss could result in a 790 or a 800 on a section depending on the individual test. The SAT just isn't granular enough to make the jumps that some want to make.[/quote]

DP not sure if I agree with this. Caltech makes it clear they put applicants in different SAT score bands in 20 point intervals [/quote]

I wonder if a bunch of people misunderstood Caltech methodology. If you score an 780-800 on each subject test, they put you in the highest band. Therefore you could score a 780 on both sections, and your score of 1560 would not be differentiated in any way from a 1600.

But 1560 isn't exactly a magic cutoff either. You could score an 800 on one section and a 760 on another, and you would be in the highest band for one section and not the highest band the other. [/quote]

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