A 1470 puts you into the top 3.6% or so of SAT takers:
Of course if you look at certain online communities, or at the enrolled students at certain colleges, most people will be in that range or above. But necessarily those communities/colleges are not representative of the greater US college landscape.
A 1470 average was just enough to put a college among the top 35 colleges by average SAT (this is including both universities and LACs). And of course there are way more than 35 “good” colleges in the United States.
Congratulations ! It’s a terrific score!! (better than ~97% test takers) and definitely in range for most highly selective colleges or scholarships.
Which universities did you send your score to?
Be cautious about how you interpret reported SAT scores for universities that are test optional. If a school is test optional, often students whose SAT scores are higher than the mean report score will submit their SAT results, and students whose SAT scores are lower than the mean score will not submit their SAT results. This means that a year later the reported SAT scores appear to be higher. Over time this results in what a statistics professor might refer to as a biased estimate. For test optional schools, the real mean SAT score for everyone who is attending the school is likely to be lower compared to the mean SAT score for everyone who actually reported their scores along with their application to the school.
Well, I’ve sent it to ASU so far; I need to check with other schools to see if they will take an update for scholarship consideration. If I were to attend UCD or any other UC, I would send it so that I would be exempt from the writing requirement. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to write a LOCI for UW Seattle, but if I can, then I will send them my score in it. As for U Miami, if I write one, I will include it.
Does UW accept LOCI? I haven’t been able to find out. On their letter it didn’t say. Also I’m not sure how likely it is I get off their waitlist. Last year they had a 72% acceptance rate off waitlist but in 2022 they had a 0.1% acceptance rate off the waitlist…
If Wisconsin, in the last CDS, 6,449 offered, 4,0006 got on and 11 offered. But that’s 2021 data.
Washington - shows last year 7,915 offered, 4,122 got on and 2,985 offered.
OK - we’ll go with that - it’s the UW.
You don’t know the majors, etc. but those are good odds relative.
Here is the info - including the form to sign up but note you cannot get into a direct admit program.
Take a wait list for what it is - for what they say - they can’t accept you (it’s a rejection) but they like you and need you as an insurance policy (for them, not you) in case they fall short of targets. Then they can un-reject you.
You have great admits, direct admits, already!!!
But here is the page with the link to the form at the bottom - which you need to fill out by April 1st. I don’t think you need to do or should do anything beyond that (an LOCI). Most schools want to know if you are on or not. They pull kids to fulfill their needs, not yours- hence it’s not ranked and they want no additional communication.
UW Seattle. It’s appealing to me since it’s a top school close to home, and the climate is very similar, a little more rainy, but it’s ok. I probably would choose it over UMN if I were to get off the waitlist. Seattle also has many companies: Amazon, Boeing, Starbucks, and Microsoft.
Well, after seven straight rejections (UCSD, UCLA, UCSB, Wash U, USC, Tufts, Boston U), I finally got in somewhere again: Oberlin with a 33k-a-year scholarship! It’s an intriguing alternative to Holy Cross if I pursue a liberal arts school since they offer multiple partner schools for 3+2 programs.
Looks like a lot of waitlisted students were offered admission last year. Maybe that will be the case this year. I would suggest accepting the waitlist because this seems like a college you really care about.
Those 2900 plus kids were actually accepted last year. Maybe you will be one this year.
You should seek first hand experience but HC has a reputation for being a bit conservative and structured while Oberlin has a reputation for not being either conservative or structured😀
Yes, I did accept the spot already. I am puzzled why they took over 70% of kids off the waitlist last year but took 0.1% the year before. I have no clue what to expect this year.
Re: waitlists in 2022 and even 2021. There were a number of students who took a year off because of COVID, gap years. So it’s possible they had plenty of students to fill their enrollment those years.
I don’t know if this was the case at U Washington, but it was at lots of other places.
(better than ~97% test takers) and definitely in range for most highly selective colleges or scholarships.