SATs are not as important as you think.

Dad2
Sun, 06 May 2012 13:30:00 +0000

For most applicants, it is highly desireable to have SAT scores that place them solidly in the middle of the mid- 50th percentile for the colleges to which they are applying. You don’t want to be pulling down their medians, after all. Remember, the celebrities, scion legacies, recruited athletes et al have to be accomodated in the bottom 25%. Conversely, all top schools have a surfeit of applicants whose scores fall in their top 25% and that alone will only get you so far. Basically, if you’re NFL material, don’t sweat your SAT’s if applying to Stanford.