What's your "real" SAT score?

Applying to College
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<p>People always say that the SAT isn’t everything. There is also GPA, ECs, essays, recs, and courseload. Below is an interesting way to calculate your “real” SAT score, which takes into account all of the above factors. Although it is far from perfect, I think it is somewhat accurate.</p>

<p>Step 1 - SAT score</p>

<p>Start out with your original SAT score (out of 2400)</p>

<p>Step 2 - Class Rank:</p>

<p>valedictorian = add 2400 points
top 1% = add 2250 points
top 3% = add 2100 points
top 10% = add 1900 points
top 25% = add 1700 points
top 50% = add 1400 points
bottom 50% = add 1100 points
bottom 25% = add 800 points
bottom 10% = add 600 points
dead last = add 300 points</p>

<p>Step 3 - ECs and Awards:</p>

<p>Outstanding = add 1200 points
Very Good = add 1050 points
Decent = add 900 points
Average = add 700 points
Sub-par = add 500 points
Non-Existent = add 300 points</p>

<p>Step 4 - Recs & Essays:</p>

<p>Outstanding = add 600 points
Very Good = add 520 points
Decent = add 450 points
Average = add 350 points
Sub-par = add 250 points
They Suck = add 150 points</p>

<p>Step 5 - Courseload:</p>

<p>Hardest Possible = add 600 points
Very Tough = add 520 points
Tough = add 450 points
Average = add 350 points
Below Average = add 250 points
Powder-Puff classes = add 150 points</p>

<p>Final Step:</p>

<p>Whatever your total is, divide it by 3 to get your “real” SAT score. My “real” SAT score is ~1960, compared to my SAT score of 2030. The best score you can have is 2400, just like the real SAT.</p>

<p>Here’s how I calculated mine:</p>

<p>SAT score: 2030
Class Rank: top 10% (add 1900)
EC’s: Decent (add 900)
Essays & Recs: Very Good (add 520)
Courseload: Very tough (add 520)</p>

<p>Total = 5870 points</p>

<p>5870 divided by 3 is about 1960.</p>

<p>What’s your original SAT vs. your “REAL” SAT?</p>

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<p>Original 2140,</p>

<p>“REAL” - 2060.</p>

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<p>1820…wow that sucks</p>

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<p>Official SAT – 2210</p>

<p>“Real” SAT – 2086
Can’t help it, the class rank killed me. There are only 36 students in my class and I’m rank 4. So that’s top 25%…1700 maaaan…</p>

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<p>4/36 is closer to 10%, so you should get the benefit of the doubt with a small class. If you put top 10%, your “real” SAT is more like 2150. As I said, it isn’t perfect.</p>

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<p>This is something you just came up with on your own. There are no facts or actual data behind it.</p>

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<p>^^Yeah, pretty much. It isn’t meant to be the “final judge” of your chances of admission. It is just something I made and I’m trying to test it to see how is correlates with SAT scores.</p>

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<p>Official SAT - 2360
“Real” SAT - 2170</p>

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<p>official sat-2400</p>

<p>“real sat”–2273…</p>

<p>2400
top 3% = add 2100 points
Outstanding = add 1200 points
Very Good = add 520 points
Hardest Possible = add 600 points</p>

<p>i think you should lose points for using a calculator to do this lol…</p>

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<p>Real - 2300</p>

<p>Actual - 2240</p>

<p>… but for ECs and recs, it’s all relative. You might think it’s awesome, the admissions officer might think it’s terrible (or vice versa - hopefully).</p>

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<p>Real – 2346. I liked my official score better.</p>

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<p>real -2064
actual 1970</p>

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<p>Official - 1920</p>

<p>“Real” - 2020</p>

<p>I wish my real score was my official score.</p>

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<p>official 2120</p>

<p>“real” 2046</p>

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<p>I did this just for my own amusment.
Official - 2090
Real - 2097</p>

<p>That’s pretty nifty isn’t it?</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t rank, so I just used the other categories and divided by two.</p>

<p>Official: 2270
“Real”: 2260</p>

<p>Close enough. :cool:</p>

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<p>Official - 2240
Real – 2270</p>

<p>Valedictorian, very good ECs/Recs and Hardest Courseload possible.</p>

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<p>Actual - I estimated about a 2150 bsaed on my 34 ACT
Real - 2146.67</p>

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<p>Official - 2260
“real” - 2253 + 1/3</p>

<p>eh, what does that mean?</p>

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<p>2120 - woo woo.</p>