<p>that’s 1490 (Math + Verbal)</p>
<p>Oh please. Every year all the Ivies and the elite LAC’s take kids with sats as low as 1350/2050. More than you would imagine. And they also reject kids with 2350’s. Its a crap shoot. </p>
<p>ANY school with an admission rate below 20% is a gamble, so make your BEST choices in the match zone, followed by reasonable safeties you can SEE yourself attending if your admissions world blows up. And it does…</p>
<p>Just because you have the stats for the uber elite schools doesnt mean you will be happy and thrive there. Make sure it fits your profile and personality.</p>
<p>Basically, if you have above a 2100, just about any school is reasonably “possible”. A lot of it really depends on the other aspects of your application, but rest assured, you won’t be rejected anywhere on account of your SAT.</p>
<p>If you feel you can do better, I’d retake. Not that that score will keep you out of schools, but Princeton’s admissions website broke down admit rate by SAT score and over a quarter of those with 2300-2400 got accepted. The rate was much lower in the 2200-2300 area. Obviously ghostbuster is right that many kids get admitted with SATs low as 2050 (and even lower in fact) and that admissions is a crap shoot, but it is for this very reason I would retake. Admissions are extremely competitive and you don’t want to wonder if it was the SAT’s that did you in. A 1490/1600 is obviously a great score, but it puts you in the middle of the class (SAT wise) at HYPS where there are many kids who had hooks and other stuff. Not trying to make you scared, really I’m not, but the objective stats are more important than any admissions officer at top schools will be willing to admit.</p>
<p>o man …another hilarious post. 2270? you shouldnt even be thinking about college, youll have to join the marines because not even a community college will accept such a low score… you gotta be kidding me, i hate people like this, many times i feel the urban dictionary definition of this site is 100% right…</p>
<p>Oh, hush. Do you even have to ask this question? </p>
<p><em>cries in jealousy</em></p>
<p>i think RML is wrong.</p>
<p>I had an OOS friend who got into Berkeley with a 2100, non-AA, etc. His ec’s and essays were pretty good though. I think that’s the main kicker.</p>
<p>point:
ANY idiot can study like crazy and get a high SAT score, but it takes true passion and talent to be unique and standout in a crowd of high-scoring uniform applicants who often sound like your run-of-the-mill high achiever NHS, 4.0 GPA, BLAH BLAH BORING</p>
<p>stay with the 2270. </p>
<p>1.) your chances of improving your score are incredibly slim when your score is THIS high (yes, this is considered a VERY good/high SAT score, and only the most elite of colleges would consider it average.)</p>
<p>2.)Some colleges prefer to see you take the SAT fewer times.</p>
<p>3.) All you need to do is really focus on your essays. I got into so many honors colleges I wasn’t qualified for not because of any stat., but because I spent a long time writing my essays and made sure that they were really damn good.</p>
<p>“Is 2270 a good SAT score?”</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>My S got a 2250 and we were thrilled. Part of that is b/c we all figured it was good enough to not have to redo. Last year, another S (now 2013 Northwestern) got around that same number and he didn’t retake.</p>
<p>Honestly, should you really spend your senior year studying for those standardized tests again? How about visiting colleges? Writing applications? Participating in all those clubs you are in charge of. participating in that varsity sport? I mean, who really has time, when a 2270 is already competitive?</p>
<p>And yes, I also know kids who wanted to retake the SAT /cuz they got 2290 and their girlfriend got 2400. But, I think that’s obsessive and it simply “feeds the frenzy”. Don’t do it!</p>
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<p>Just to play the Devil’s Advocate why can’t someone do all of that? I’m not saying that a 50-100 point difference at this level will definitely mean the difference between admission and rejection, but it could mean the differnece between a waitlist and admission. Isn’t it worth putting in the extra effort just this time to make sure you have all the bases covered?</p>
<p>its funny that hes asking if a 2270 is good while, to me, it’d be a god send if I got anything above a 2000+</p>
<p>Anything above a 2200 (99%) is really good. I wouldn’t cry over anything above that, there is more to your application after you hit that level.</p>
<p>I wasn’t responding to your post. Curb your delusions of self-importance.</p>
<p>Indeed, I misspoke: 2300-2400 represents the 99+ percentile.</p>
<p>A 2270 places student01 in the 99th percentile. That is, he scored better than 99 percent of fellow test-takers. I intended for this information to give him insight as to whether his score was “good” and “competitive.” It should, and I hope it has.</p>
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<p>Don’t know where you’re getting that information. According to all the data sets I’ve seen, the average admitted for the incoming freshman class was 2033. The class of 2012 had an average of 2020 (see second link).</p>
<p>[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucb.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucb.html)</p>
<p>[04.07.2009</a> - Almost 13,000 high school students offered admission to UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/07_admissions.shtml]04.07.2009”>04.07.2009 - Almost 13,000 high school students offered admission to UC Berkeley)</p>
<p>You shouldn’t make such inaccurate claims without the facts to back it up.</p>
<p>OP: Let’s just say that your score won’t be the reason you aren’t admitted somewhere.</p>
<p>What is OOS</p>
<p>@hmom5: Really? With most elite schools having aggregate acceptance rates approximating 5 to 15 percent, I’m not at all sure that (for example) achieving at the 80 percentile level, in all germane categories, is “really competitive.”</p>
<p>^FYI this thread is over 5 years old; don’t think these folks are around anymore. And FWIW, I think the post you referenced meant “strength relative to accepted students”, not “strength relative to all applicants”. If an applicant is “better” than 75% of all other applicants and the acceptance rate is 5%, you are right- that’s not so good. If the applicant is better than 75% of the accepted 5%, that is “really competitive”. I think this is what the post your referenced meant.</p>
<p>OOS refers to out-of-state applicants to a state school.</p>
<p>Use old threads for research only. If you have a question, start a new discussion. Closing.</p>