SSAT Scores

dadprep
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:50:31 +0000

Not sure if this helps or not…I was talking to the Head of School at ny son’s school this week about his SSAT Scores. She said that she likes the students at our school to be in the 45th percentile and above in order to be competitive.

She also said that SSATs aren’t typically used as the deciding factor to not accept students. They are more often used as a tie breaker. Her example was…If a student has really good grades and lower SSAT Scores, the school won’t necessarily use those scores to decline acceptance. My interpretation of her comment is that the SSAT Scores are weighted less than grades, application content and interview.