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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this gets discussed on dcum, but I really do not understand how so many posters seem to have kids who scored 1500 and above. I wonder if the percentiles of students with those scores have skyrocketed and the percentiles one reads on rhe acollege Board site are just out of date. (and yes I realize this is an educated area but no more so than nyc, boston, san fran, etc and most of the state of nj, haha). [/quote]

I think a couple of things are at play: 1) Yes, DMV is a highly educated population so the kids around here are likely to do better than average; 2) Posters on DCUM are a self selected groups...and those who post their kids scores are a sub-self-selected group; and 3) I'm guessing that--most of the time--these scores are "superscores"--whereas the percentiles that are posted are one-sitting percentiles.  So, while 1500 is the 99th percentile for one sitting, more kids are able to achieve it if they can combine their best scores from 3-4 sittings, which many kids around here do.

FWIW, my DC did not quite hit the magic 34/1500 threshold on their first attempt but they were close and did not need the added stress of chasing a score so they were "one and done."   Will they get screened out from some schools because they missed that number?  Perhaps. But they made the decision to value mental health over obsessing over a number, even if their chances at some set of schools may be decreased or eliminated.  We were 100% behind that decision.[/quote]

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