<p>SimpleLife, I wholly agree :D</p>
<p>However, if you apply to a school as someone who is very into math and specializes in math, anything below an 800 will raise some eyebrows.</p>
<p>^ umm not really</p>
<p>^ I agree. It won’t raise eyebrows. People on CC are a little more perfectionistic and paranoid than necessary. Schools want real people. Real people aren’t perfect.</p>
<p>Does anybody have a consolidated list of answers?</p>
<p>top ivy/private schools usually accept people who don’t have perfect test scores–usually its people who have outstanding grades and outstanding leadership and EC’s. My sister is a prime example–2100 SAT’s, first one in college, 4.3 GPA, started own club, volunteered numerously, and great essay–got into Stanford. And now she has a bio major.</p>
<p>No, I’m sorry if my realistic view conflicts with your pragmatic view of college admissions, but if you apply as someone who is good with math or science, anything but an 800 will look bad. You can’t consider yourself good at math and not get an 800, the test is ridiculously easy to get an 800 on, and 10% of the people that take it get an 800.</p>
<p>People on CC are perfectionists. No one in your high school are like the people here on this site.</p>
<p>the UC’s have made the SAT II’s optional in 2012. I wonder why.</p>
<p>Man **** the UCs, their going to go bankrupt in a couple years.</p>
<p>I bet it’s because students who come from schools that don’t teach to standardized tests have a huge disadvantage. They are expected to teach themselves potentially an entire class which is somewhat unfair. Of course, that is just a hypothesis.</p>
<p>Would 1 skip and 3 wrong give me an 800?
what about 1 skip 4 wrong/5wrong?</p>
<p>1 skip 4 wrong would give an 800.
1 skip 5 wrong would be a 790.</p>
<p>ok thanks so much! Btw, are the statistics already out?</p>
<p>What statistics? Usually anything that’s not an 800 is below the 90th percentile.</p>
<p>like how did you figure out that 1 skip and 5 wrong is a 790?</p>
<p>The raw score for a 800 is almost always an 44.
-5 wrong is 44, -5 wrong and a skip is less than a 44 or 43</p>
<p>^I’m confused by this. If each question wrong is .25 point off, how is five wrong a 44 raw?</p>
<p>50-5*1.25=50-6.25=43.75=44</p>
<p>So if you skip 5, get 5 wrong, then the raw score is like a 39?</p>