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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great point about many schools going TO. That said, I'm also seeing an incredible number of students with 1400+ SAT scores. I get that I need to not draw from my experience in the 90s when it was rare to hear of someone getting such high or near perfect scores but what is up with so many high scores these days? Has the scoring changed since I remember it? Or has the test itself gotten easier? Or maybe those are the only ones we hear about on here?  :D [/quote]

The SAT was recentered in 1994 or 1995. Then the writing portion was added, then taken away. The general consensus is that scores are higher now than in the 1990s.[/quote]

The scores may be higher now than in the 1990s, but only 7% of SAT test takers today get a 1400 or above. And only 2% get 1500 or above.

https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-percentiles-and-score-rankings

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The percentages you quoted are from ONE sitting per test year cycle. You can't use those percentages to determine how many kids are in the pool of high scorers each admissions cycle. This is a common mistake that people make on this forum. One big mistake is not accounting for people that took the test multiple times over one or two years AND superscoring.

The recent Common App report (2022) provides a better understanding of what is happening:

According to the Common App 2022 report, [b]76,747[/b] applicants applied to universities/colleges with an SAT score &gt;1500 (this includes ACT equivalent scores). [b]98,498[/b] applicants applied with scores in the 1400-1499 range.

Source: https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ca.research.publish/Research_Briefs_2022/2022_12_09_Apps_Per_Applicant_ResearchBrief.pdf
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Even so, there are more than 175,000 freshman seats at T50 schools. What makes it feel so complicated and chaotic is that to access many of those seats you have to live in the right state or play the SCEA/ED1/ED2 game correctly. [/quote]

Yes, there are approximately 180,000 seats at T50 national universities (using USNEWS rankings). But the majority of those seats (approx. 115,000) are public universities that are not available to the entire applicant pool due to in-state preferences, sports, and mandates to educate a broad range of students, not just the &gt;1400 applicants. If you limit to private T30s there are approximately 45K seats. Again, many seats are not available because of institutional priorities such as diversity, $$ donors, legacy, and athletics.

Other posters are correct that this has been happening for a while because of the increased college-age population, USNews ranking, recentering the SATs, super scoring, etc.; but the problem has significantly increased because of the pandemic, the Common App, and widespread test optional. There are too many applicants applying to the same 50 schools and not enough seats. [/quote]

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