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[quote=Anonymous]I cannot speak for the SAT or any other test. Sorry. 
The SSAT Board, however, USE to score the test with a National Estimated Percentile. This was derived from comparing the scores of the kids that actually took the test to the general population (thus, the "estimated" part of how they worded it). 
*** The National Estimated Percentile is what Georgetown Prep (and other schools) were using as their benchmark. They liked to see 90%+.***
The SSAT Board CHANGED THE REPORTING STRUCTURE sometime after the Spring 2014 testing. They no longer print that National Estimated Percentile (not even if you go back and do a reprint of a test taken prior to the change! But if you are really eager to know and cannot get your hands on the hard copy they sent to you, their Scoring Dept CAN still access that info and send it as a cut-and-paste; they did that for me!). 
Most of the schools that were looking for 90% on the National Estimated Percentile, however, have not posted what the want to see now (on the SSAT Percentile Rank). Actually, for us, Georgetown Prep is the ONLY school that we are considering that has made a written statement about it. Here is a cut and paste from their website:
Note: Regarding SSAT scores, SSAT will be dropping the Estimated National Percentile for their score reports. This was the higher of the two percentiles they had historically provided. The admissions committee at Prep will now only be using the SSAT Percentile Rank and scaled score to evaluate applicants. The average admitted scores for these metrics are 60th percentile for the SSAT Percentile Rank and 2070 (out of 2400) for the scaled score. 
So that National Estimated Percentile produced very different numbers than the SSAT Percentile~SSAT % is much lower. My son's SSAT %ile this year was 91 (8th grade Upper Level). If I were not AWARE of the change, I may think he barely made the cutoff. However, knowing we were shooting for 60+ and he got 91....... I will NOT ask him to re-sit for the exam. I feel good about his scores.[/quote]

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