<p>SSAT, ninth grade, once, 99 percentile overall (but not straight across all subjects)</p>
<p>Accepted Episcopal, Peddie, Concord Academy
SSAT scores aren’t everything! Don’t forget to practice the timed essay - it’s actually the most important component.</p>
<p>^ beatles, where did you hear that the timed essay is the most important part?</p>
<p>i got 99th percentile, accepted at 1 (FA waitlist), waitlisted at 4, rejected from 2. then again, i’m international + need full aid, so all in all, not too shabby :p</p>
<p>Divealive, GemmaV once said to not underestimate the timed essay because schools use it to measure your writing skills to those in your applications. However, I probably shouldn’t have said earlier that it was the ABSOLUTE most important part; all parts bear weight. People don’t think about it, that’s all.</p>
<p>99-99-99 taken once, waitlisted at exeter</p>
<p>Your current school may not have given you strong recommendations so that they won’t lose you.</p>
<p>I took it once, I got 98% overall. I was waitlisted at Exeter, Deerfield, Milton, Concord, and Hotchkiss; rejected by Andover. What was said up there ^ though, reminded me. My timed essay during the SSATs were pretty crappy. I’m a slow writer in the first place, and writing is one of my weaknesses, so that probably contributed to my waitlists. xD</p>
<p>Hi everyone ! I’m from Vietnam .
I took twice and pushed my ssat score 63% ( only 14 days for preparation ) to 88%
accepted : Berkshire - my dream school :X</p>
<p>Congrats, littleIan!!</p>
<p>Berkshire is lovely and I’m really happy for you.</p>
<p>went from 55% -> 86%</p>
<p>Got accepted from Choate
Waitlisted at Hotchkiss and Andover</p>
<p>Taken once, 99%</p>
<p>SSAT is not too big a deal to get you accepted, but significant enough to get one rejected if there is nothing else going.</p>
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<p>We know that already. Bush did it, even without taking SSAT.</p>
<p>what is the max score possible? and what are the 3 sections? need to knwo for my siste rthanks</p>
<p>I assume the max is 99 and the three sections that are scored are math, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. But, as mentioned above, there is also an essay. It doesn’t get scored, but it does get sent to the schools your sister applies to.</p>
<p>It has 3 sections and each is worth 800 points=2400 total. The two-digit numbers some people mention are percentiles, and those change depending on your grade and gender…the same raw/scaled score can have different percentiles depending on these factors.</p>
<p>Note that because of variations from test to test (some iterations are harder than others), they scale the score. So it is possible to answer every single question correctly and still not get a 2400.</p>
<p>FWIW, an AO told me last year that “anything in the high 80s makes the SSAT score a non-issue”. Meaning it won’t count against your candidacy.</p>