Range of accepted SAT scores for Intl.Students.

<p>Hey-everyone. I’m a senior and I’m applying for colleges this fall. As I made my college list, I faced some difficulties of chosing my safty schools. In what way do you chose your safty school? For me, nothing else mattered, except my SAT verbal score, because it’s a bump in my application…kkk Say my SAT verbal score is 630, than do I chose schools that my SAT Verbal score could be in the boundary of middle 50%? For example, according to the collegeboard, William and Mary had an accepted test score that ranged from 630- 730. Just concerning the SAT’s, how high or low should Intl. students apply for college in U.S? If intl. students have a lower criteria for SAT verbals, how much? </p>

<p>Middle 50% of Test Scores/ Percent who submitted scores<br>
SAT Reasoning Verbal: 630 - 730 /95%
SAT Reasoning Math: 620 - 710 /95%
ACT Composite: 28 - 31 /5%</p>

<p>there’s no absolute ‘criteria’ with SATs but I’d say (for so-so colleges) the minimum should be 600. I think it looks a bit weird on the app if your score starts with a 5. and for so-so colleges, the average score (should be) about 690-710…</p>

<p>But sats arn’t that important. this guy got into harvard last year with a 520 verbal and a B average. But his service to the community + leadership skills were really great (he volunteeerd in 3rd world countries for 3 months and all these other things).</p>

<p>what do you mean by “so-so colleges”? Ivies? what level of school are you talking about?</p>

<p>690-710 would be a really good cr score for “so-so colleges” if by that you mean average colleges. a 650+ easily puts you into the middle 50% at least (judging by SAT scores) of the applicant group in mediocre colleges like Boston U (if you can call it mediocre).</p>

<p>For HYP though, you’d want to get 700+ to be in the competitive group. however, ppl do get in with lower scores because the rest of their fabulous app compensates for that.</p>

<p>And there is no relaxation of CR scores of intels just bcoz there are many who get even better scores being intel still… so No help there…the range can be very misleading fo rintels though</p>

<p>I assure it depends on what colleges you are applying to. Say, you’re applying to Williams, F&M and some others. Williams will not put you in the C or D category (means avarage or below average applicants) in the pool of international applications, if you have lower than 600 on the SAT critical reading section. They don’t give much attention on SATs and standeardized test scores but the whole application. Prove yourself to be the best candidate with personality that they are looking for, then you’re in.
F&M is a different case. They look at SAT score first, and if it’s high enough (about 1400+) then you can have a chance. BUT their decision still based mostly on SAT score as well as your financial need.
Another thing to be considered is the background. In some countries which applicants often have high SAT score, a lower than average report will put you in a disavantagous situation compared to other applicants from your country. By that I meant people in Singapore, China, Korea, India… have to try hard to get high score in order to keep pace with the trend, not to make them outstanding among applicants from the same country. But in other conutries when applying to colleges and SAT are not popular, those who score high on the tests will take advantages. In my country Vietnam, the average SAT scores of people who have been accepted by most of the most pretigous colleges and universities are in the range from 1340 to 1420. There’s only one or two scored higher than 1500, and their chances ofcourse were much brighter.
Some other whose critical reading score was 500 and Math’s was 770 got in to 4/8 colleges he applied to. Most of which are in top ten LACs.
To conclude, 630 is a solid score for every applicant, you should not worry about it very much. Adcoms don’t expect every int’l applicant to have a verbal score higher than most of the native applicants. Stay calm, you’re fine with it. Now take time to produce an excellent essay;)</p>

<p>Absolutely right i would say for … i forgot the citizenship part… the point is that top colleges need two things </p>

<ol>
<li>Diversity</li>
<li>Intellect and Quality</li>
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<p>The rest is well if u are better than the country average … with porfile within the college range…</p>

<p>My verbal score was 490 and now I no longer care about that.</p>

<p>where can I find the country average? By the way, I’m Korean.</p>

<p>ohhh fellow korean!
well i’d say that maths would be close to 800… actually, i’d say 85% would have 800 maths…
And verbal will vary i think. But I think the top koreans’ scores will go from 700+. but many are in the 650 + range so you don’t have to worry.</p>

<p>over 85% of koreans have an 800 in maths?? u’re kiddin rite?</p>

<p>Some students from my country went to Intl school, while others went to non-English-speaking school. Also, some went to a prep school in the US before applying to colleges. The average really can’t tell unless it represents each of these groups.</p>

<p>i dount how efficient is a 490 in verbal…</p>

<p>What abt acceptances</p>

<p>I don’t mean to sound extremely rude, but just can’t help it:</p>

<p>“well i’d say that maths would be close to 800… actually, i’d say 85% would have 800 maths…”</p>

<p>Please tell me you’re not studying any social sciences. Or anything outside of math or physics. That has to be one of the stupidest things said ever on these boards…</p>

<p>(There’s no way on earth it can be that high.)</p>

<p>In korea and in china and I guess in singapore, and many other Asian countries, sat math is a joke to them. At one time, I was studying for a Korean math test which is a standard test for all Korean students to take to get into university. I studied the maths 2 (the one to take if you want to do engineering and medicine and others) and I think most Koreans who’s studying for it, can honestly say that, the korean math 2 test is significantly harder and requires much much much much much much more knowledge than SAT1 math… plus you get to use a friggin calculator for the sats, which can have all these formulas downloaded in them… no need to memorise everything…</p>

<p>If the SAT maths test was in korean, I can honestly say 99% will get 790-800. But the language barrier is the only thing stopping them from getting 800.</p>

<p>My friend who attends a private prep school in Korea said most seniors’ SAT maths were in the 750-800 range anyway.</p>

<p>…I don’t think it was THAT stupid…</p>

<p>even IF tht’s true, it probably is only for koreans of chinese who are serious about their SATs and gettin into US colleges. If you have all the hs students take the test, I doubt 85% will get an 800 or close to.</p>

<p>Seeing as I went to a private school in China (Beijing) a few years ago, with a majority of the students being Asians (who don’t hold Chinese citizenship), I recall most students being extremely happy to score an 800. Most students were above average, but most had math scores under 700.</p>

<p>And you’re comparing two unrelated things. For example, now living in Finland, I can say the matriculation exam for long mathematics (which is a joke, btw) is still more ‘difficult’ than the SAT; It’s just that most students have a lot more time to complete the exam despite it requiring much more knowledge. The SAT tests your reasoning skills and requires that you complete a lot of problems in a short time interval. Do remember that to score an 800, you can only get 1 problem wrong (if I recall correctly). Most people will make stupid mistakes or something similar.</p>

<p>(I’m assuming here that the Korean math 2 test is something like an exam that tests knowledge, not reasoning ability)</p>

<p>Oh, and sorry if this message is a incoherent and difficult to follow along with, I’m feeling a bit tired… :)</p>

<p>NoFX is quite right. I’m Korean and I’m in a Korean program where everyone’s studying to go to colleges abroad, and when we take the model SAT, all the under-750s have to take a mandatory class where they go over the questions they got wrong. Last time, out of the 50 students who took the model test, about 8 people took the class and even then they were all 700+.</p>

<p>i wish i went to your school bmelanie…:)</p>