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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The figures for the number of 1570+ scorers are low.

When the College Board last released data on the number of scorers at a given score in 2015, the SAT was scored out of 2400.  Approximately 17,500 scored in the top 1% out of 1.7 million test takers.  There are now around 2.4 million test takers.

A 1570 concordance on the 2400 scale is 2360-2370.

There were only 2,500 scorers who achieved a score of 2360 or higher in 2015.

Even with superscoring, there are probably fewer than 7,500 1570+ SAT scorers each year.  [/quote]

I just find this implausible because my kid has a single-sitting 1570 and really doesn’t seem like she’s all that unusual. [/quote]

It’s not that unusual at my kid’s school or probably at yours. It’s unusual elsewhere. An old friend lives in a state like Arkansas and the newspaper ran an article about her kid’s high standardized test score. That wouldn’t be news where we live. I don’t think it helps that much for the same reasons.[/quote]

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