Anonymous
05/02/2025 18:19
Subject: What’s considered the cutoff for a “good” SAT score these days?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m PP with the 1490 kid. This is helpful. DD has 770V 720M (should also be NMSF, FWIW)
And will plan to study humanities. So perhaps submit. Though better if she could just get the damned math score up 10 points!
The AOs advice lacks nuance. Getting to a 1500 and submitting would change nothing substantiative in the application.
Less than 30% submit SAT scores.
10 more points (to 1500) would be at the 25th pct overall but still in the bottom group. Ten additional 10 points for Math would still; put her Math score 40 points below the 25th pct. for Math.
770V is a 75th pct. score for that side of the test, it is significant.
Given that your D wants to study humanities and that she has a 75th pct score where it counts it would only be beneficial to submit.
According to you. It is not just the indiv app…they want their reported numbers high.
Not according to "me", according to common sense.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 18:10
Subject: What’s considered the cutoff for a “good” SAT score these days?
Anonymous wrote:Abolish the SAT. This has gotten ridiculous. It serves no purpose other than to brag. And then what? The kids for the most part end up at the same working level and salary (not all of course) as most others who don’t have the highest SAT scores.
Disagree. With all the grade inflation SAT and AP scores are a valuable data point. Many schools found SAT scores as a good metric of success in college and thus returned to test required.
What is ridiculous is test optional where it's a guessing game on what scores are OK to submit or not.