SSAT scores - retake?

GMTplus7
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:23:05 +0000

Weatherby, the OP said her kid’s individual scores are in the 90’s-- well inside of the the baseball infield, let alone the ballpark. I think it would be a waste of time to re-take. Not to mention a huge amount of stress.

Do you mean “Jumbo” effector Tuft’s effect? Tuft’s effect is phenomenon where kids whose walk-on-water profile get rejected by school because the school thinks the kid is unlikely to accept their offer of admission (i.e. the kid is likely to accept the Harvard offer instead of theirs). Both elite schools and “safety” schools jealously guard their yield-rate and want to maintain a low-as-possible admit rate. It is possible for a kid to look too good.