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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe we have SAT score conspiracy truthers now. “My child didn’t score over 1500, therefore all students, parents, and schools claiming that anyone ever scores over 1500 are part of one enormous conspiracy to pretend that my kid isn’t the smartest!!”

What a world. [/quote]

And I can't believe there are posters on the dcum collage boards that don't understand how standardized tests like the SAT are scored and weighted.

1500% + scores are in the upper, upper 90th percentile range.

Scoring in the 99% on the SAT does not mean your kid got 99% of the questions correct.

It means they scored higher than 99% of the people taking that test that day.

The test scoring is weighted down to individual questions to ensure that if your kid is scoring in the 99% range, then 99% of the scores are going to be lower than 1500.

This means in your DC private school class of 300 students, there is only going to be around 3-4 students scoring above 1500.  A fcps high school with 600-700 in a senior class is only going to have 6-10 kids in that above 1500 range.

A 1580 is going to be in the 99.9% range, so you are only going to get one of those kids every year or every couple of years.

Unless the kid is at TJ, there is almost zero chance that your kid's school is going to have "many" kids scoring in the upper 1500s.  That is simply impossible [/quote]

You imagine that scores are much more evenly distributed among high schools than is in fact the case.[/quote]

This is wrong, on so many levels.  High performing high schools will have dozens of 1550+ plus scorers.  A lower performing high school might have zero for a decade.

There are public, non-magnet high schools, in high selection index states which have 30 plus national merit semifinalists in California, etc.  A selection index of 224 is roughly equivalent to a 1530 on the SAT.[/quote]

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