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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to hijack, but I read that the test was recalibrated in January 2025 and it is now more difficult to get 1500+.  Is this true?[/quote]

yes that is why so many people are going mental about things now that tests are becoming increasing more relevant and/or required.

crossing 1500 seems like an important differentiator in the application stage.[/quote]

Yes, it is true. The digital SAT launched in 2023 (so what the current college class of '29 took as HS juniors and submitted last fall) is "adaptive" meaning it grades as you answer. The first modules of questions include easy, medium and hard questions.  If you do well on this module you are steered to the harder second module, if you don't you are steered to the easier module.  The max combined score for the easier module is around 1200 (I am not an expert but I think that is approximate).   To break 1500 student has to be answering the harder questions correctly throughout to keep getting the hard questions.  
I also think this could have implications for what submitting TO means with the digital SAT, i.e. will admissions officers worry that the score is 1300?  Only the class of '29 applied with digital SAT and we don't have CDS data yet so keep that in mind when looking at TO data from prior years.[/quote]

I think this is an important point.  I didn't realize that last year's graduating class was the first with digital. It will be interesting to see if score ranges change.  [/quote]

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