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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The renormalizing in 1995 was huge and a mistake as there is now way too much compression.  I got a 1560 in 1989 and that was considered outstanding.  My kid just got the same and it is a solid “ehh….I guess report it.”  [/quote]

Sorry, this is silly. A 1560 is still an excellent score, above 99th percentile, and will help your kid gain admission to any school, even MIT. Why bother taking it at all if a 1560 is a solid “ehh….I guess report it”?

What you are getting at is that a) there is a lot more competition (more competition in EVERYTHING... look at every sport) and b) there are a lot more factors that are considered in admissions.

But yes, the SATs were changed (before some of the PPs took them and benefited as well) AND many more kids prep. The fact that more kids prep may make the scores higher but it actually does not make the SAT itself easier.

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+1 this is a truly terrible and egotistical attitude for you and your child. Isn't even a humble brag, it s just awful. When you say your 99th percentile score is meh, you are literally crapping on 99% of the students in the country.[/quote]

It's the Test Optional.  If a school previously had a 1400 SAT average, in the first year of TO, only kids with scores above 1400 reported.  So the next year, that school's average went up to 1450.  So that year, only kids with test scores above 1450 reported.  So the next year, the school's average went up to 1480.  So then only kids with scores above 1480 reported...it's worse ever year.  It's getting so that only a small number of kids report their SATs and only when they are very high.  So lots of kids take it, but very few kids report it to many schools.  And I'm not talking Harvard here.  We were told that for a school like Northeastern (not a school my kid was looking at, but that was the example given), a 1500 was very borderline as to whether to report.  Boston College had an average SAT of 1510 for the admitted class this year.  So it is now just a ridiculous money maker for the College Board, in which all these kids pay to take it (often multiple times) and then many of them won't even report it.  
It's different for the schools that still mandate it, but there aren't many of those and some of them are the ridiculous genius places anyway, like MIT.  [/quote]

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