Lit 720, Good Score?

jamesford
Mon, 25 May 2009 22:11:27 +0000

As has been pointed out, percentiles can be greatly skewed. With the SAT 2’s, you are not being compared to the college applicant pool as a whole. You are being compared to a smaller subset that is taking a particular test. In the college application process, you are not being compared only to the people that took literature or chemistry.



This information is valuable to admissions officers, as it puts perspective on the score.



Officers see the score, not the percentile. Other applicants’ scores are what puts perspective on the score.



Because an 800 on the Literature test is the 99th percentile and an 800 on the Math 2 test is the 90th percentile, the former is more meaningful to admissions officers.



Most colleges are fairly liberal in allowing students to choose what tests to take. You will not be penalized for scoring high on an “easy” test.