<p>This is kind of random but I figured this was the place to post it, as I guess it’s equivalent to the “Misc” of CC.
I’m kind of curious if there are any other students like me, with a lowish class ranking and a high SATs score.</p>
<p>You don’t have to post your exact scores or class rank but put your ratio.
Divide your SAT score by your class rank to yield your ratio. (Let’s say you’re ranked #60 and have a 1800 sat; you’re ratio would be .0333)
For example, my ratio is .09866</p>
<p>Well the class rank is very dependent on the class size. However, mine would be 0.024. </p>
<p>Mine is probably .0339, not sure of exact rank, just an idea from deciles. If my school weighted it might be something like .03 or .025.</p>
<p>What I think would be more effective would be to divide your SAT score by the percentile your class rank is in decimal form. It wouldn’t really be a ratio but more of a score. Because this way of doing it can account for class size, because somebody who has a 25 person class can graduate 18th in it and have a pretty good ratio even if they have bad grades.</p>
<p>Example: My class rank is 32/407, my SAT score is 1910.</p>
<p>32/407= 0.0786 (or 7.8%)</p>
<p>1910/0.0786 = 24300 (I guess that’s an ok score)</p>
<p>For my score let me pick two extremes, Ivy League caliber and your lucky to be attending community college caliber.</p>
<p>So an elite Ivy League Caliber score</p>
<p>Class Rank: 1/500 (0.2% percentile or 0.002)
SAT Score: 2250/2400</p>
<p>2250/0.002 = 1,125,000 (really good score)</p>
<p>Now lets pick an absolutely pathetic extreme</p>
<p>Class Rank: 420/500 (84% or 0.84)</p>
<p>SAT Score: 1000/2400</p>
<p>1000/0.84 = 1190 (really bad score)</p>
<p>What do you guys think? I think a way to improve it is have a cut off for percentile when you hit the top 2% or whatever, just because when you get to the difference between 3, 2, 1 you get huge increases in percentiles per class rank. So after you get to the top 2% or whatever you just make it all be 2% or 0.02 decimals.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t the ratio of SAT to GPA be more telling?
One could put both up: SAT:unweighted GPA (use scale of 0-100 for GPA) and SAT: Weighted GPA (scale of 0-110 or whatever is the top given the weights)</p>
<p>That’s actually a far better method. @RHSclassof16
And class rank is too non-standard to provide an accurate assessment, as was previously said</p>
<p>Irregardless of how silly this idea seems, I do agree a better way to do what you’re doing is to divide the SAT score by the percentile, not raw rank #.</p>
<p>so as 20/400 (.05) and a 2280, that would be a 45,600?</p>
<p>@qCollegePlz Yes. Which is really good.</p>
<p>How about ACT scores? Why do ACT scores always get disregarded?</p>
<p>because they are inferior to the chosen weapon of the masterrace</p>
<p>@Hawkace Because the almighty SAT is superior, everyone knows that. </p>
<p>I like the ACT more than the SAT though.</p>
<p>I prefer ACT more too. Im pretty sure its more popular than the SAT now, but I always thought that it was more of a regional thing</p>
<p>From what I’ve observed at my school, most people who receive relatively high ACT scores (30-33) are unable to attain an SAT score that roughly equates (they study for both too); they usually only get around 1800-1950 on their SAT. Of course, there are exceptions, but, in my opinion the ACT is an “easier” test, in that it measures curriculum-based knowledge rather than what some might term arcane vocabulary and unnecessarily nebulous questions (SAT style).</p>
<p>^Well put… but ACT is superior</p>
<p>Haha, to each his/her own.</p>
<p>while we are all exchanging opinions, it is mine that yours is false</p>
<p>Cool</p>
<p>28,048.78</p>