<p>Once your score gets above 2150 or so, the test’s ability to evaluate what you’ve learned and/or to predict future success declines very rapidly. Admissions people start looking at other qualities.</p>
<p>Consider an analogy. Let’s say two Olympic quality swimmers are trying to get hired as a swimming coach. One was the winner in the last Olympics. The other competed in the same event. The difference in their times was 1/10 of a second. You can’t really believe that the faster swimmer automatically will make the best coach. Both of their times are awesome. The people hiring the coach have to look at other qualities, such as personality.</p>
<p>Likewise, admissions committees know that there’s just not much difference between a student who scores 2300 and one who scores 2400. Those 100 points really don’t tell you anything important that you don’t already know. </p>