Average SAT Score Went Down!!!

<p>From the College Board:</p>

<p>Middle 50% of
First-Year Students Percent Who
Submitted Scores
SAT Critical Reading: 660 - 760<br>
SAT Math: 680 - 780
SAT Writing: 660 - 760
ACT Composite: 28 - 33 </p>

<p>YAAYYYYY! I have a better chance now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):):)</p>

<p>Ahh yes, these are submitted scores, but they are not the scores of the admitted students. One could argue that the applicant pool might have somewhat lower test scores, but possibly have no effect on the scores of the accepted students.</p>

<p>wait, but aren't these the scores of first-year STANFORD students who submitted scores last year?????!!!!</p>

<p>KSAzN may be talking about those students who did less well on the SAT and chose to send the ACT. If added in they might lower the average of the accepted students for the 25 to 75 range for the SAT. There are probably not many who did the opposite.</p>

<p>Those scores hardly changed from the year before. At best, the range of the scores shifted by 10 points. That isn't going to help you get in. Given that they round off the averages, the actual difference could be even smaller than 10 points.</p>

<p>haha that's bad news, my SAT scores were higher</p>

<p>and ksazn, those are admitted applicant scores</p>

<p>25th percentile 75th percentile
SAT Critical Reading 660 760
SAT Math 680 780
SAT Writing 660 760 </p>

<p>From </p>

<p><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/&lt;/a> </p>

<p>All this pertains to enrolled students.</p>

<p>even a small difference in scores is still a difference. So, technically, off of raw scores, we do have a slightly better chance. :) I was kinda wondering, though, why the scores did drop a bit. What do you think?</p>

<p>Are these scores composite by section or single testing?</p>

<p>Well, at least my math score just made the cut (680).</p>

<p>If only SAT scores were worth as much as you thought they were.</p>

<p>I know, seriously. If only.</p>

<p>If only....<em>shakes head sadly</em>....</p>