Perfect SAT score students (1600 or 2400) - Where do they study now?

bclintonk
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:02:40 +0000

There just aren’t enough perfect 2400 scores to be concerned about. According to the College Board, among 2008 College Bound Seniors, only 294 scored a perfect 2400 in a single sitting at any time in their HS career. Who cares where those 294 people go to school? They’ll all get into very good schools, and if their grades and ECs are up to par they’ll all get into some of the very best schools, whether or not they get into their top choice. And from the colleges’ point of view, why even both to distinguish the 2400 from the 2300, as there are fewer than 6,000 with 2300+ single-sitting SAT scores—a really small pool. Now of course, superscoring might increase these numbers by a factor of, what, 2? 3? 4 at most? But we’re still talking about very small numbers.

The difference between a 2400 and a 2350 is basically just statistical noise. The colleges don’t care. Neither should we.