<p>I heard somewhere that getting a perfect 800 is much more impressive than get a high score like 780 but less than perfect, even though numerically they are almost the same. I'm skeptical. True?</p>
<p>Impressive? Yes.</p>
<p>Going to make a huge difference in admissions? Probably not.</p>
<p>Admissions officers will be impressed by the perfect score, but anything 770+ is a good score in its own right -- a student who happened to get one question wrong on a single four-and-a-half-hour test is not going to flunk out of the class that the 800-student will do brilliantly in. Sure, it's lovely to have the gratification of the perfect score, but once one makes it to the 'high' score bracket, a difference of a few points doesn't matter.</p>
<p>In addition, there's a reason the SAT has score ranges. The standard measurement error on the test means that scores will vary slightly, so an 800 could be a '760 kid' who got lucky, and a 780 could (and usually is) be an 800 on an off day. Everyone will be aware of this.</p>
<p>dont worry about it.....unless its like mandarin, 780 is a great score</p>
<p>ya... 780 is still an amazing score on anything except mandarin. 780 would be like 30 or 40 percentile lmao.</p>
<p>For a non-Chinese person, 780 on Mandarin would be extremely impressive. :) Most of the people who take that test are native Chinese-speakers shooting for an easy 800.</p>
<p>are you all talking about Mandarin SAT II?</p>
<p>ya .</p>
<p>the difference between a 780 and an 800 is the difference between REJECTION and ACCEPTANCE!!!!!</p>
<p>not.</p>
<p>The only difference is one looks more impressive to your parents than the other (guess which one ;))</p>