<p>^ You did not read our posts. Greed summed up mine perfectly - the collegeboard takes into account self selection of test takes. </p>
<p>You have made no argument against this except to say that “people” have told you so. I must tell you something about my position too: You’d be foolish to disagree (with it); I’ve had numerous guidance counselors and private college advisors tell me (that it is the score, not the percentile that matters).</p>
<p>If you can REFUTE our argument, then please do. If you are just going to make unsubstantiatable references to what other people have told you as a point against what we are logically arguing then I agree with Greed:
‘golden honestly doesn’t understand math.’</p>
<p>You are implying that in college admission departments there are secret tables of comparisons between the 20 SAT subject tests. Why would they have that? Why would the collegeboard not just send in the percentiles if that is the case, why bother converting to a 200-800 score? </p>
<p>SELF SELECTION</p>
<p>The 200-800 score is what the colleges look at.</p>
<p>Let us take an example: By your (logic?) an 800 in math 1 would be better than an 800 in math 2 - percentiles 99+ and 90 respectively. This is obviously baseless, because the math 2 is the harder test, so why penalise the top top students who nail the harder test? Math 2 has a nice curve and math 1 has a horrible curve to ensure that these two 800’s represent a similar achievement.</p>
<p>Think, don’t just say “Well some people said this thing and they appeared to know what they were talking about and I listened and then I saw this argument and I though hey people said this and they seemed to know what they were talking about so I will say it.” Substantiate, reason, argue.</p>