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<p>I would suggest that once you are past the mean of the college (which is about 2200 for Dartmouth and Brown), it makes little difference, but it’s not zero. I think it was Michelle Hernandez who wrote in her book: adcoms are aware of the impact that test scores have USNews ranking and thus, it’s always better to be at or above the mean. Otherwise, an adcom would have to find something else significantly better on the app to accept you and lower their reported mean.</p>