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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great point about many schools going TO. That said, I'm also seeing an incredible number of students with 1400+ SAT scores. I get that I need to not draw from my experience in the 90s when it was rare to hear of someone getting such high or near perfect scores but what is up with so many high scores these days? Has the scoring changed since I remember it? Or has the test itself gotten easier? Or maybe those are the only ones we hear about on here?  :D [/quote]

The test was "normalized" in 1995 (and then taken to the 2400 and then back to the 1600 but the normalized concept still stands).  So if you were pre1995, you can add 100-150 to your own SAT to get "todays equivalent".  So yes, there were not many scores in the 1400/1500s back then.  Also, not nearly as many did test prep back then.  We took the PSAT junior year, then took the SAT (PSAT was our prep) and were likely done.  Some people took the test a 2nd time and that's it.  If we did any prep it was a few hours, not 6 months of intensive prep.

So if you had a 1300+ score, you'd be 1400-1450+ now.  
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