<p>Meaning, is it competitive for the hardest colleges to get into? Should I try to take it again? (no saracasm or jokes, please… I can see how this can turn into a really funny thread)</p>
<p>How does it break down?</p>
<p>Being really competitive means being above the 75th percentile by every measure if you have no hook. Check the common data set for your schools.</p>
<p>basically, nothing below 730 on any of them</p>
<p>It won’t keep you out of anywhere.</p>
<p>I can see the anxiety in putting up these kinds of posts. I mean i wont say i am not thoroughly impressed with that score, but it must of been really hard to post this as a thread.
Like guy above me said, No school is going to decline you because of a 2270.</p>
<p>“It won’t keep you out of anywhere.”</p>
<p>Really? </p>
<p>Just this year, 7 kids with SAT scores of 2370 (almost perfect) were all turned down at Berkeley. (They were OOS applicants however.) And they are just 7 of the several hundred applicants with basically the same SAT scores not being offered a place at Berkeley. I can imagine how it’s even more competitive at places such as HYPSM.</p>
<p>I had below a 2100 and got into Berkeley.
It really depends on other factors in your application. OOS doesn’t help either.</p>
<p>Pretty unlucky. The average SAT score of last year’s class that matriculated at Berkeley was under 2000.</p>
<p>2270 is competitive but its better if you crack 2300’s
it depends on your viewpoint
my friend got 2270 on first try and refused to retake it bc he thought it would look bad [ivies put into consideratiion how many times youve take an SAT]</p>
<p>berkeley’s really strannge
they accept a variety of ppl.</p>
<p>“Pretty unlucky. The average SAT score of last year’s class that matriculated at Berkeley was under 2000.”</p>
<p>Well, that only proves that Berkeley is NOT a SAT whore school like those schools you worship. That’s my point, hmom5.</p>
<p>Yes, there are many just plain awful schools that want kids with high scores. Whores, all of them! You guys should start a boycott and refuse to apply until they bring down average SAT scores.</p>
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<p>“It won’t keep you out of anywhere” means that you won’t be rejected because of your SAT score. Those with 2370s who were rejected were rejected because of other factors; their SAT was good enough. For the most part, the same thing will hold true for somebody with a 2270.</p>
<p>There is so much else involved in getting in to superselective schools. The 2270 is excellent, but it is just one building block. No need to retake. Even a 2400 isn’t be the key; it just isn’t that simple.</p>
<p>Its a good score, but you need to make sure other parts of your applications add up. Do you have extracurriculars, volunteering, good grades, good entrance essay, ap scores, etc? SAT Scores are only part of what the look at.</p>
<p>Schools like HYP will only take one or two unhooked kids from most high schools. It may come down to a 2380 over a 2320. this is harsh, and many on this site will vehemently deny this, but it happens in close contests.</p>
<p>and if you’re an unhooked white/asian from CA/northeastern suburbs, 2270 is low for HYP.</p>
<p>i don’t know about being above the 75th %ile in all 3 sections, because I doubt more than 10% of kids at these schools can claim that, but try to do it in your two better sections.</p>
<p>It’s the 98th percentile.
2300 and above represents the 99th percentile.</p>
<p>Is 2270 a good (read: amazing) score? Yes.
Will 2270 keep you out of schools? (regardless of race, geography, etc.) No.
Will 2270 get you in any elite schools? No. </p>
<p>I really wish people would stop worrying so much about test scores…just do well on them and leave it at that…</p>
<p>"It’s the 98th percentile.
2300 and above represents the 99th percentile. "</p>
<p>The national percentiles could not be less relevant at HYP. I was referring to the middle SAT ranges specific to these schools. And besides being irrelevant, your post is wrong. 2200 and above represents the 99th percentile, not 2300.</p>
<p>^^ No worries, OP, I asked a similar question a few yrs ago when DS’s SATs were 2290, but the issue for him was that he was applying for a scholarship where 1550 (cr reading/math) was desired and his combined were 1510 (ironically his highest score was in writing- a 780, not normally his strongest skill). He did not retake. (He didn’t get that particular scholarship, but did get a full tuition scholarship elsewhere, where he now attends). Older s took the SATs when it was still jsut at 1600. He got a 1570 and wanted to retake. I told him that was silly. He did not retake. So,unless there is a compelling reason to reatake, especially since you can now select which scores to send, you might watn to put your energies elsewhere. My s’s are glad they didn’t retake.</p>