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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If everybody is getting a 1580, does that mean nobody is getting a 1400?

Virginia's population is about 3% of the United States population.  There are fewer than 500 NMSF in Virginia.  If there are approximately 10,000 1580 SAT scorers in the country, Virginia would have about 300.  Because it is a relatively high achieving state, you can probably double that amount.  At 600, that is more than NMSF recipients.  A 1580 superscore is equal at least to a getting a 224 selection index.

So it looks like all these 1580 scorers are on this forum![/quote]

My current applicant got a 1410.

There are so many high scorers (or parents) on DCUM because
- this board draws from Virginia, Md and DC, not to mention other geographic areas.
- self-selecting. Kids who have high scores often have involved parents who would spend time on a message board about college.
- I think this board talks loosely about ACT v SAT and post equivalent scores from the other test. 
- you are not considering superscoring. No one knows quite what it means bc the data isn’t published but my hunch is superscoring raises scores exponentially.  My oldest kid was the only one of his high-achieving friend group who submitted a single sitting.  Every other one took multiple tests.  While I don’t know the exact scores, only one out of 12 had below a 1500 or the equivalent ACT. Three had perfect scores superscores but they didn’t include that caveat when discussing applications. (The boys talked freely about such things.) [/quote]

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