The SAT II score and it's national percentile which one is better reference factor?

silverturtle
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:57:52 +0000

Silver, would you mind sharing the names of the colleges? It’s just that I would be shocked if ANY adcom had any inkling of the % of the Subject Tests. Moreover, they just don’t care. A 750+ is a 750+. They do look for breadth, of course. And, I believe that they mentally discount the language tests for native speakers – other than URMs.



It has been quite a few months, but I know that it was at least one of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale whose admissions officer giving the information session said that the percentiles (which are shared in the Score Reports mailed to colleges) are more helpful than the scaled scores. The officer used Math Level 2 and Literature as an example: 750 is the 94th percentile in Literature but only the 75th percentile in Math Level 2.