Data regarding perfect ACT/SAT scorers?

silverturtle
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:51:05 +0000

^ Math geniuses constitute such a small percentage even among those who score 800 that an admissions officer would never assume a student to be a math genius based on the score alone; they would need additional evidence, such as the IMO medal. But as soon as that secondary evidence arises, the score is negligible. Even if the few math geniuses in the world all score 800 (counter-examples to which I am familiar with) on the Math section, they are outliers even among 800 scorers, so it remains that the difference between the average student who scores 790 versus that who scores 800 is not significant enough to warrant great admissions differentiation on that basis.