<p>I wonder if I am the only one that sucks at all this grammar related stuff =[</p>
<p>^Grammar (writing section) is the easiest to learn. If you have more natural aptitude for critical reading and math, that’s good :)</p>
<p>i love you…</p>
<p>nothing more</p>
<p>Oh my God. This is my first post in months, so CC tells me, and I decided to grace you with my presence (just kidding) because this is AMAZING.</p>
<p>Though I still think people are too much focused on the SAT. There are literally 50+ people on here with perfect scores. Perfect scores aren’t rare anymore.</p>
<p>Anyway, congrats silverturtle! Can’t wait to see where you end up.</p>
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I agree. However, this is still college confidential. So, its to be expected that we’d hav a ton of perfect scorers here. Btw, nice to see you again on CC, Anonymous93.</p>
<p>^second the last part:]</p>
<p>Silverturtle, you are a lifesaver.</p>
<p>wow, this stuff is amazing.
dude, thanks a lot for providing such valuable info</p>
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Less than 0.05% of all test takers get perfect scores (in one sitting). How is that not rare?</p>
<p>@silverturtle
Is that in one month (300 2400’s) or the whole year? In one month seems… less impressive. I believe it’s only for the US, too, correct?</p>
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<p>It’s per year worldwide.</p>
<p>@Jimmy797 - So, there are 300 each year, which really isn’t that rare. And if you include the people who score in the same range as a 2400, say 2350+, then it’s really not that big of an accomplishment. I mean, it is, but there are other things that people should focus on. I’m just saying that there seems to be too much of an emphasis on getting a perfect score, while other achievements are far less common.</p>
<p>And no, I am not a bitter test taker. I did quite well with standardized tests.</p>
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<p>I don’t know about that. :)</p>
<p>I’m not sure that I agree with what you’re saying, though I agree with what I think you’re trying to say: there isn’t anything particularly special about 2400 with respect to other similarly high scores and that focusing on scores at the expense of the other important aspects of one’s application is misguided. </p>
<p>Anyhow, it’s nice to see you on here again, and I wish you the best of luck at Duke.</p>
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<p>You know, rarity is with respect to something. You can’t just say “300 is not rare” without referencing the whole. It’s a fraction after all, and fractions show how rare/abundant something is. In the end, the percentage shows the rarity, and whatever you argue, at less than 1% of test takers scoring a 2400 (way less than 1%, by the way), it’s rare. How big of an achievement it is is a completely different topic, one that I didn’t attempt to answer :D</p>
<p>@Silverturtle</p>
<p>If 0.05% of all the test takers get perfect scores, then 50,000-100,000 test takers get perfect score. That is quite alot, even considering 1-2 million people take it each year.</p>
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<p>I don’t know where you got that .05% figure from or how you arrived at 50,000-100,000. Approximately .0194% (just above the 99.98th percentile) of college-bound students who take the SAT receive 2400.</p>
<p>What the heck? 50,000 - 100,000 getting perfect scores?!</p>
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<p>I’m not really sure why (or if?) we’re debating the number, as it is already known: 297 last year, and 294 the year before that. Probably something similar this year. In any case, this isn’t very relevant to anything. :)</p>
<p>^We (at least I’m not) are not debating it, I was just surprised at how someone can arrive at those numbers. </p>
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<p>^ I fixed the typo right before you posted that. :)</p>
<p>I was the one who said 0.05%, not silverturtle, for whoever said that. I said 0.05% because the percentile for 2400’s is 99+ according to CB so I assumed its 0.05% or less, and as silverturtle said (I trust him with statistics) it’s ~0.02%. I was a bit off, but still, I didn’t have the actual statistics or number of students taking the test, forgive me 
And 0.05% of 1-2 mil. is not 50-100,000. You made the mistake of forgetting to divide the percentage by 100 before multiplying it by the total number of students.</p>