800 in Both Math and Critical Reading

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<p>My S got an 800 in both of these on his SAT, along with a 740 in writing. I have seen statistics on the number of students getting an 800 on math and the number getting an 800 on critical reading. I have also seen statistics on the number who get 2400. Are there any statistics on the number of test takers who get 800 on both math and critical reading?</p>

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<p>for what purpose?</p>

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<p>bragging rights</p>

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<p>Don’t know, but shout it from the fb rooftop? I’m just kidding --that is really awesome and I would bet he’s within a range even lower than the top 1%. Since NMF are roughly scoring the equiv. to a 2200 on the SAT and they’re within the top 1% nationwide, then a perfect score would have to be lower than that number. So it’s really an amazing score no doubt.</p>

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<p>Since you have both figures, you might get a fair approximation from multiplying the percentage getting an 800 on math by the percentage getting an 800 on critical reading.</p>

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<p>This would vastly overestimate the rarity, since there is a strong positive intercorrelation.</p>

<p>Here is what you are looking for: <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-cr-m-2010.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-cr-m-2010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thank you silverturtle. This is exactly what I wanted to know. It seems like a pretty small cohort, although i guess about a thousand of the 1305 drop out on the road to 2400.</p>

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<p>It does seem to be pretty small, but you knew that already.</p>