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<p>Scores of 1600 were always very rare until “recentering,” and they haven’t been particularly common since recentering. </p>
<p>[SAT</a> Equivalence Tables](<a href=“http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:gArfnxL4d0sJ:www.collegeboard.com/highered/ra/sat/sat_data_equiv.html+recentered+SAT+scores&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a]SAT”>http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:gArfnxL4d0sJ:www.collegeboard.com/highered/ra/sat/sat_data_equiv.html+recentered+SAT+scores&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a) </p>
<p>Yale has never been in a position to admit only students with perfect SAT (or ACT) scores–its entering class each year is too large.</p>