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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school counselor gaslit my high score DC, basically told DC their high score is treated the same as 1500.  Counselor was an AO at an ivy.  So I guess it’s not helpful.[/quote]

We were told differently by a former AO at an Ivy (1550 plus treated differently) so may depend on the school.  Anecdotally, the kid with the 1600 and cum laude from our private did very well among T10 schools.[/quote]

Look at the Harvard lawsuit. The scoring shows 33-36 was treated the same (!!!!)
It was all of the other factors that matter. And matter A LOT.[/quote]

This is not consistent with the facts.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55119-0[/quote]

That paper likely doesn't say what you believe that it does. There is correlation in the paper but not enough material to prove causation.

I would take AOs at their word that they bucketize SAT scores. There was the MIT article that said 1580 as the cutoff and I have heard numbers as low as 1540 straight from a MIT AO (they specifically said that 770 and above on either side is considered the same as 800 because it indicates complete mastery and they attribute the couple of questions missed to mistake and not a lack of knowledge. That said I would expect that there is incremental benefit at the edges for higher scores in tie breaking situations.[/quote]

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