<p>Also, my son’s HS SAT average is ~1640. Does it mean anything to admin’s if one scores 600 over the average student or does this stat even come into play in admissions?</p>
<p>To be honest, in my personal uneducated opinion, he better be pretty amazing at something else. Getting a 1600 might give Harvard the impression that your son isn’t too passionate about studying, or simply working hard in general. Is he?</p>
<p>The fact that your son scores 2200 SAT in a school that averages 1640 isn’t uncommon. Basically any public HS will be around that range. Your son did well. Congrats. But his achievement there alone isn’t unique among H applicants.</p>
<p>Ah, I misread the OP. That must be why I’m messing up so much on CR. 
There’s a chance that Harvard may recognize he did far better than his classmates, but an incredible SAT score alone will not get one into Harvard, most likely.</p>
<p>Your son could make a note of it on his resume.</p>
<p>e.g.,</p>
<p>SAT I: CR ???, M ???, W ??? (22?? [H.S.'s average is 1640])</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>though, such a device is used usually when one is trying to distinguish oneself from many, many distinguished candidates from a single source.</p>
<p>If your son’s SAT I composite were listed alongside the school’s average composite on his H.S. transcript, that would be most helpful.</p>
<p>“Ivy feeder schools” come in different shapes and sizes. My kids attended two very different ones, both of which sent 25-30 kids/year to Ivy League schools. One was a public high school with about 550 kids/class. Its average SAT was about 1100 (1600-point scale, M/CR only). But, apart from a few athletes, none of the kids it was sending to Ivy League colleges had SATs anywhere near that low. Most of them were above 1450, sometimes substantially. The other was a private school with about 95 students/class. Its 1600-point scale average was around 1320. But again the average for the students going to Ivy colleges was much higher than that.</p>
<p>I think adcoms do look at the school average, but mostly to get a sense of what kind of school it is, so they understand the transcript.</p>
<p>The true private feeder schools will have an average SAT score in the following range: 1800-2100 with most around a 1900.</p>
<p>I second originalthought’s statement. My school’s definitely not an ivy feeder school and has an average of 1500 on the SAT (my school only sends about 5 at max out of 500+ students)</p>
<p>Your guidance office will send a school profile with their part of your application. It contains many important pieces of information about your school including average SAT scores. You might want to request a copy from guidance or look on their website. It’s nice to know what your school reports.</p>
<p>If you find your school’s is inadequate, like we did, volunteer to help revise/reformat/update based on the many great examples you can find online. An admissions rep at an Ivy school commented to us that our school’s was inadequate and that to admit a student the previous year from our school he’d had to do his considerable research. He made some suggestions that I used and our school adopted. I think my D benefitted considerably.</p>
<p>Our school is NOT a feeder school, though, so this may not be relevant to you.</p>