Is 2400 actually best?

Jersey13
Sat, 15 May 2010 23:39:50 +0000

I think that re-taking a 2360 and obtaining a 2400 would also be a disadvantage at Stanford. It’s probably break-even at HYP.

Care to elaborate on how you reached such a conclusion and why you chose to separate the effects of a retake on admissions to S from admissions to HYP?

Retaking 2360 and coming out with 2390? Could happen. How would you feel about it?

Obviously there would be a degree of disappointment, but a 2390 is still a higher score than a 2360 and thus some gain was accomplished.

Admissions representatives at HYPSM+C see plenty of 2400’s and it has no novelty value for them.

With roughly 300 2400 scorers per graduating class and around 1.6 million total testers in said class, those with a 2400 represent ~0.000188% of the total testing seniors in any given year. I’m pretty sure that any college, even the likes of HYPSMC, would regard a perfect score with some degree of novelty.