What's your "real" SAT score?

Applying to College
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<p>system doesnt work for prestigious boarding schools and NYC feeder day schools when every kids in the top 50% would have been top 1% in an average public school</p>

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<p>^^ True only if Ivies/top schools recognize that and therefore recruit heavily from your school. If that is the case, then those people shouldn’t even be looking to collegeconfidential for assurance.</p>

<p>At my school, because the IB program attracts the top students from the county, the majority of the top 20 have higher weighted GPAs than the valedictorians at the other schools in the county (and we all use the same system). The Ivy leagues, however, don’t notice/care and we still have to fight to get into their ranks (haven’t gotten anyone into HYP --however 1 into MIT–, but usually 2 or 3 will matriculate to the “lower” ivies: Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, etc. per year).</p>

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

<p>That’s actually not a bad idea if you go to a super-competitive magnet school and your rank is misleading. It might actually be more accurate that way.</p>

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<p>Ooh, totally subjective self-assessment, fun!</p>

<p>Step 2 - Class Rank:
top 25% = add 1700 points (actually, top 12% - sigh)
Step 3 - ECs and Awards:
Very Good = add 1050 points
Step 4 - Recs & Essays:
Outstanding = add 600 points
Step 5 - Courseload:
Very Tough = add 520 points</p>

<p>Original score: 2310
“Real score”: 2060</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m sticking with my actual score.</p>

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<p>Yes, it is subjective. I based my courseload assessment on what my counselor put on the common app (Very Demanding). I posted my essay in the essay forum and people said it was pretty good, so I gave myself the “very good” rank. </p>

<p>I actually thought of this after seeing something called “Real Age,” which takes into account your diet, exercise, heatlh history and family history in order to calculate your “real age,” which can be compared to your calendar age. I tried to apply this concept to the SAT. </p>

<p>How do you know if your “real” SAT is good? If your “real” SAT is higher than your actual SAT, it is good. If it isn’t, it isn’t the end of the world. The system is flawed, but so is the “real age” system since both are subjective. From what I’ve seen so far, the people with high SAT scores tend to take a bit of a beating in the “real” SAT system. I believe this is because many of these people go to competitive schools where ranks are misleading.</p>

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<p>you guys are losers</p>

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<p>not losers, just bored as hell</p>

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<p>We should probably take it into consideration, though.
If you’re a loser, you need to subtract 250 points. Total losers subtract 500 points. The super-awesome get +300.</p>

<p>…yeah, bored sounds about right.</p>

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<p>This is so subjective.</p>

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<p>Official - 2010
“Real” - 2027…lol</p>

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<p>haha - yes. It is…</p>

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<p>Official: 2270
“Real”: 2123</p>

<p>but I’m not sure if I graded recs, EC’s, and similar categories too harshly or too easily. </p>

<p>ah well. I’m hoping they just look at my official score, in any case.</p>

<p>Actually, I’m hoping they look at my score out of 1600 (1540) instead.</p>

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<p>SAT-2200
REAL-2206
weird eh</p>

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<p>Interesting concept. If only schools’ grading systems, ranking, course difficulty could be objectively measured and schools could use something quantifiable that takes more than SATs into consideration.</p>

<p>D’s #'s…original 2250 / “real” 2300. close</p>

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I agree. I have 800 on reading and 760 on math (=1560), but “only” 710 on writing (=2270).</p>

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<p>official- 2090</p>

<p>real -2097</p>

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<p>“real” 2293
actual 2230</p>

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<p>Official: 1930
Real: 1950
not bad.</p>

<p>Although, I dont like the clas rank, because there is a BIG difference between 10% and 25%…there should be a 15-20% in there.</p>

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<p>I don’t think there’s supposed to be a correlation between your official and “real” scores. Official score is your test taking ability, “real” score is your college admissions acceptability. Just like the “real” age would be how young you look/feel… you’re not supposed to get the same.</p>

<p>Also, this’d get more replies in the SAT forum, I’d think.</p>

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<p>By the way, I haven’t taken the SAT yet, but my practice SAT score (without practice) was 2290, and I’m a junior, but I can assume what my stats are going to be (it’s subjective anyway, right?).</p>

<p>Practice: 2290</p>

<p>“Real”: 2137</p>

<p>Top 3%, decent ECs, very good recs, hardest possible courseload.</p>

<p>Maybe I need to work on my ECs…</p>