<p>In the same geographic direction as scualum – Harvey Mudd. Fabulous science/math/engineering, part of the Claremont Consortium, so you have Pomona, Scripps, Pitzer and CMC next door to campus (literally). S’s tour guide at Mudd was a double major in engineering and film. Ditto UChicago – S is a math major who wanted a humanities program with substance. Feel free to PM me.</p>
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<p>The wait is over!</p>
<p>DS just called from school, and the PSAT scores are in. He easily scored well enough to be Commended but not well enough to be NMSF. Exactly where I thought he’d be. He sounded a little disappointed, but I put my most supportive mom voice on and talked about what an accomplishment Commended is, and he agreed. Plus, he said “And I know (friend) and I will get Natl Hispanic Scholar!” That’s my optimistic boy. :)</p>
<p>Apparently, some of the kids in his homeroom, where they received the scores, shared numbers. He said one girl we’ve known since kindergarten is one point shy of the cutoff last year. I hope she sneaks in as she’s had quite some hardships in her life.</p>
<p>Can’t wait to see the subscores. SATs for real are on the 24th, so not much time to work on a “weak” area. I’m just so glad the suspense is finally over.</p>
<p>P.S. And apparently he’s not taking my advice to not share his scores! :)</p>
<p>glad your (and S’s) lesson in patience is finally over YDS! And glad he has a positive outlook and good luck with the prep for the SAT to you and others taking it in Jan.</p>
<p>Major Congrats to your son!!</p>
<p>(To Pugmadkate, post #1755)</p>
<p>Case Western in Cleveland.</p>
<p>I am presuming your Texan son doesn’t mind cold winters, if he is looking at schools in Boston.</p>
<p>Case is excellent in bio & all sciences, but there is a strong theatrical/arts bent to its student body, many cross-registering with Cleveland Institute of Music for combined majors.</p>
<p>And the film society has an annual pretty cool Rocky Horror Show event–my S has photos to prove it. :eek:</p>
<p>Congrats to your son, Youdon’tsay!!! And hurrah to National Hispanic Scholars! :)</p>
<p>Wonderful! Commended is a real honor!</p>
<p>Wait is over here too… they passed out the tests this morning… DD was not thrilled with her results - but is now focusing on working towards doing better on the “real thing”</p>
<p>I would like to direct your attention to the discussion of score choice in the “loophole” thread, especially vicariousparent who had previously called the CB concerning choice for SAT II tests. The latest replies say that score choice has been taken off the table for SAT IIs. Since I am taking my moments away from my day job to browse around here and not lookup the actual policy statements on CB (another way to say I am being lazy), I’m wondering if anyone else was not asleep as I was if this has changed from the fall when score choice was initially announced.</p>
<p>I need some help. It seems on these boards the common wisdom is that Math2 SATII has a better curve than Math 1, but according to the score report I just got for D’s SAT’s they say that an 800 score on Math2 will only put you in the 90th percentile, while a Math1 800 will put you in the 99th. What am I missing?</p>
<p>QM- it means that 10% of the kids get an 800 on Math 2 whereas only 1% get an 800 on Math 1. So yes that does tell you that more kids get the higher scores on Math 2. Whether it is easier is a question of the student’s background. D plans to take Math 2 in June when finished with precalc.</p>
<p>Thanks, all. I think he’ll be happier with his score once he sees the yummy cake I made to celebrate! </p>
<p>The bigger news, perhaps, in our house is that S2 made the school basketball team. He’s short. It’s something of a miracle.</p>
<p>jackief, I quit following that post for a bit, but now it’s gotten so long that I think I’d have trouble catching up. I’m glad you mentioned the change on SAT IIs. I was thinking I’d just have son take a whole bunch this June and pick and choose among them. He only needs one more. I guess I need to investigate this further.</p>
<p>QM, I don’t see how you can have an 800 and be in the 90th percentile. Do you have a link to the CB site with those percentiles? But it would make sense to me that the test with the easier curve would mean a higher score/lower percentile as more people would be getting that higher score. Unless 10% of the kids get perfect scores. Is that possible? Not in my world.</p>
<p>My son is taking the Math 1 on the 24th since he decided to not take the regular SAT. I’ll let y’all know his thoughts afterwards and then what his score and distribution was. That will give you an idea of the curve for that one.</p>
<p>He may take the SAT2 Math 2 after this year (pre-cal) depending on how he does on the math 1.</p>
<p>For the program he wants to apply to at UT, he needs one or the other to show “math readiness”, but the minimum score is low - like in the high 500’s. If he can’t do that well on them, then he sure as heck shouldn’t be trying for that major ;)</p>
<p>Congrats on the basketball team!! I remember those days, worrying about if my sons would make the team or not - sweating the phone call!!!</p>
<p>YDS - congrats to S2. My kids like (don’t love, but like) sports and thankfully at their small school they get the opportunity to play. D2 was on the middle school bball team last year trying it for the first time. She is back to nordic skiing with older sis this year. Trying to decide what she (D2) wants to do for the spring, nice when they can try different things, esp for sports that have a JV level.</p>
<p>Here is the link to the %iles for the subj tests, and yes it shows that 800 is 90%ile for Math 2
<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_subject_tests_percentile_ranks_2008.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>look on the bright side, 800 is 56%ile for Chinese :eek:</p>
<p>Thank you. I guess I understand.</p>
<p>BTW jackief, that Chinese score doesn’t surprise me. It’s a whole bunch of fluent native speaker taking essentially a 3rd grade test.</p>
<p>Well, that’s not fair!! Why isn’t the English test easy like that!! lol!</p>
<p>Thank you all for the suggestions. It’s wonderful to have a new list to look into. </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone for all the good news!</p>
<p>Note that for the sciences in the SAT II, an 800 is the 91% percentile for physics. Being aware of same, having taken Math II and happily scoring an 800, my S who’s now taking AP Physics C will be taking the SAT II in physics come June. Still up in the air is whether he’ll do US History as well, to show he’s well rounded. (I have to laugh as I write this since he’s on the water polo and swim team, and his pants fall off him without assistance of a belt. Rounded body wise, not!)</p>
<p>My older son scored a hattrick - took Math 2, Physics and US History SAT2s all on one day and perfect scores at on all. It’s not that the Math 2 and Physics SATs are so easy, but that only strong students dare to take them. Back in the day I got a 790 on the Math2 and I think the percentile was around 80.</p>
<p>Math2 really does have a better curve - you can get a few wrong and still get an 800, not so on Math1. I don’t know why it’s like that, but it is.</p>