A 2400 Rumor?

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<p>This book lifted the veil on the fate of students who scored a perfect SAT. Although it describes what happened to 1600 SAT scorers at Harvard, it should still be quite applicable to most highly selective schools. </p>

<p>[Amazon.com:</a> 1600 Perfect Score: Tom Fischgrund: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/1600-Perfect-Score-Tom-Fischgrund/dp/0641764626/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279482015&sr=1-7]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/1600-Perfect-Score-Tom-Fischgrund/dp/0641764626/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279482015&sr=1-7)</p>

<p>The same author wrote a related book as well. Here’s description:</p>

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<p>Funny how that works. :)</p>

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I’m sure there are few people here who are 12, but most people here aren’t 18, so it might be offensive to some people. </p>

<p>I don’t mind, however, so it’d be nice if you can put up some porn videos as well, since “we aren’t twelve”. Right?</p>

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<p>But isn’t this in one take? As in, when the College Board says that x people had a 2400, they mean that x people got a 2400 in one sitting. When people post their stats on College Confidential, and in college admissions in general, people use the highest score from each section, often not from one setting. So the number of people with “2400s,” as we and college admissions people see them, is probably much higher than what the College Board reports.</p>

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<p>^Yea true. Most (if not all) top schools super score. So ~300 2400ers goes up to like ~1200 2400ers probably. Also, just a guess, but what about 2400 SAT2ers would you say? (I have a good chance for a 2400 on SAT2, and I was wondering how impressive it would be) </p>

<p>My guess for 2400 on the SAT2 is ~3000.</p>

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<p>^I don’t think a lot of people take 3 SAT II’s anymore. There’s just about 1 major college left in the US that requires it. I do know a 1600 on the SAT II’s isn’t very rare - like 10% of people get it (random guess based on what I know of the test percentages.)</p>

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<p>lidusha,</p>

<p>Yes, I believe that those numbers refer to the highest single sitting. However, I suspect that there are very few superscored 2400’s because the vast majority of people scoring near 2400 do not retake, so the number of total 2400’s is probably well under 400.</p>

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<p>GreedIsGood,</p>

<p>I don’t have any specific guesses. Your 3,000 figure is reasonable, though. This number will begin to decline now that Harvard no longer requires three.</p>

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<p>If there are only <300 students who get 2400 on SAT a year, and if most of them are not repeated test-takers (real or practice), then they deserve to be in most of the schools they care to apply to and they probably get in. So, 50% could be too low an estimate, excluding the repeated test-takers and super-scorers.</p>

<p>The true 2400ers could be good at anything they enjoy doing and they may enjoy doing lots of things. Trying to be among the top 200 students in the country is an admirable goal but it’s unknown how much control one has over that.</p>

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<p>Quick question: when you guys say someone with a 2400 SAT score has a 50% chance at the top schools, is this in one sitting or superscored?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for clarifying</p>

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<p>They are referring to superscored and non-superscored 2400’s; all of the top schools superscore. Keep in mind that this statistic is not verified.</p>

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<p>OK, stats fans - I have a couple of problems for you: </p>

<p>1) what are the odds of twins both scoring 2400 (single sitting, not super-scored) on the SAT?
2) what are the odds that both twins score 2400 on SATs AND 36 on ACTs?</p>

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<p>We attended a Stanford info session in June and were told that they accepted only 25% of the applicants with a perfect SAT score of 2400 this past year. </p>

<p>That is implausibly low. </p>

<p>Silverturtle, this came from an admissions officer doing the info session in a large lecture hall with over 100 people present. I would be interested to hear if anyone else recently attending a Stanford IS got this stat as well?</p>

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<p>I attended one a year ago, and they didn’t mention any statistics. I’m not saying that you are lying, nor that the admissions officer was intentionally lying; I’m just saying that that number seems far too low. Even if SAT scores weren’t considered in admissions, the confounding variables associated with scoring that high would probably get the acceptance rate to 25%.</p>

<p>Not that this debate is super relevant, unless it were to negate the idea that scores positively correlate with admissions chances across the entire score range.</p>

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<p>Who knows? There is surely an at-least modest correlation between twins’ SAT scores (for genetic, socioeconomic, and parental-support reasons), though.</p>

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<p>There aren’t many 2400+36 combinations, mostly because there is generally no significant reason to take one test after doing so well on the other.</p>

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<p>Believe it or not, I know twins who were perfect 2400+36s this year.</p>

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<p>would it be right to assume that all of those 300 or more students who get 2400 in their sat I will get accepted into one of the ivies or other top schools like stanford, etc?</p>

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<p>No, that would not be a safe assumption.</p>

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<p>Interesting. Is there an article out there about them?</p>

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<p>^^Unfortunately none of which I am aware. They are going to different schools, neither of which is an Ivy.</p>

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<p>Quote:
would it be right to assume that all of those 300 or more students who get 2400 in their sat I will get accepted into one of the ivies or other top schools like stanford, etc?
No, that would not be a safe assumption.</p>

<p>silverturtle, that is scary. 2400 and you are not yet assured to enter at least one ivy or top school…that is scary.</p>

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<p>^Nothing is assured. If everything else in his app is solid, you shouldn’t worry for him. :)</p>