Threshold Theory for SAT/ACT scores...

evergreen5
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:41:38 +0000

Scoring a 1600 vs a 1560 does make a difference.

I wouldn’t know how much truth there is to this, but I would hope that adcoms are smarter than to think student A is higher-quality having gotten four more questions correct on the entire SAT than student B. My sense is that this difference would matter more at some slightly-lower ranked schools than at HYPSM, e.g. Vandy.

At the moment, the 99th percentile starts at 1480.