Does this SAT II look bad?

Falcon1
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:52:08 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with a 710 but it would be near the bottom of the middle 50% of the the average of 3 scores t(700-790) that peer college, Princeton, reported seven years ago when they required 3 scores. In this case, OP’s avg of the two score is 730 so it’s in the range (although I would imagine that the bottom of the range has moved up in the past seven years). If OP is a science/ math kid 710 on the Math II is on the low side vs peer applicants.

You may know someone with a 650 and a 690 but you may not also know the full story behind the person’s acceptance. Try to find those scores on past results threads where the person wasn’t hooked (athletic recruit, URM, development case, etc). Either that or the person overcame an unusual hardship (cancer, death of parents, etc). For most anecdotes of an outlier, there’s usually more than meets the eye.