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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The College Board published the numbers.   There were 9,203 test takers who scored 2300 or higher in 2015.

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-crit-reading-math-writing-2015.pdf

You have to use the wayback machine as the College Board now hides the 2015 score behind a firewall.

The concordance table published by the College Board indicates a 2300 old SAT is equivalent to a 1560 new (1600) SAT. https://research.collegeboard.org/reports/sat-suite/concordance/previous

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-crit-reading-math-writing-2015.pdf

You have to use the waybackmachine to access it.[/quote]

What is a waybackmachine? Never heard of this.[/quote]

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