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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because I'm bored... if there are roughly 195,000 undergraduates students in the top 20... and roughly 48,750-ish incoming freshman... and only 12,000-ish 99th percentile test scorers... doesn't that mean only 25% of these students are in the top percentile?

That means don't worry if your kid doesn't score in the 99th percentile. There is plenty of room for them. Go ahead and apply and use your scores.[/quote]

1.9 million SAT scores, 1.4 million ACT.  That's 3.3 million test scores, 33,000 of those tests scores are top 1%.  There is some overlap with people taking both tests or even retaking a test after getting a 1500 on the SAT but this is reasonably close.

2.34 entering freshmen this fall nationwide.  23,000 is top 1% of college freshmen

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No need to turn this into a hair splitting exercise. Like... 1500 is not 99th percentile. 1530 is 99th percentile. That drop your numbers by many thousands right there. And then, like you said, many students take both exams. Sticking strictly to the SAT numbers PrepScholar reported 12245 scored 1530 or higher. That might be 2022, however, and not 2023. Whatever. The whole point is that there are roughly 48,000 freshman starting college at a T20 school and there are about 12,000 kids with 99th percentile (1530+) SAT scores. That suggests that nobody should get too worried if they are applying to a T20 school with a 90th to 98th percentile score. [/quote]

You're kidding right?  90th percentile is 1350.

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It's pretty random. One of our kid took it three times and scores ranged from 1350 to 1510 and not in the order you'd expect.  Same kid, same brain. The tests really don't seem to be as uniform as people think. Anecdotal, I know, but still. Our other kids were happy with the first score, but who knows what retake scores would have been: some better, some worse. [/quote]

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