<p>I was wondering this. I am aiming for a 2400 (Have gotten it once on a BB test so far and multiple takings of 2300+) and am wondering how much weight is the 2400 given?
Does it give significant extra chance for Ivy's and top tiers colleges, like the top 10 overall ones?
I am in the top 10% of my class, the upperbound of it, closer to the top 5%, and have a good high GPA...and really good course rigor. Does a 2400 really make my application "complete" in the sense that I will have the highest chance possible of getting into the schools I want to? I have very focused EC's, a handful of leadership positions (3-4) , and consider myself well rounded overall in terms of admissions. Does the 2400 send my over the top, or will I still have the same chances as any of those hundreds of other highly qualified candidates? Thanks!</p>
<p>I am not an admissions pro. But IMHO, for purposes of discussion, I do not think a perfect score is better than a near perfect score. There is so much more to a candidate than his or her score. I believe the adcoms would tell you the same thing. I think obsessing over the score is a waste of time. Aren’t there better things that one can do?</p>
<p>too many 2400s these days. i dont think its worth much at all.</p>
<p>There’s only a few hundred 2400s a year out of over a million scores. Hardly “too many.” That being said, there should be no difference in terms of college admissions in regards to a score of 2400 vs 2300+.</p>
<p>youll find out that a 2400 wont do nearly as much for college admissions as you think</p>
<p>Most people who can score 2300+ are probably capable of scoring 2400 under different conditions (a different version of the test, not making a careless mistake, etc.). I think colleges realize this, and do not consider a person with, say, a 2350 to be significantly less qualified than a person with a 2400. A 2400 looks impressive and all, but I really think it’s not going to be a deciding factor in an application to a top school.</p>
<p>In most cases, 2300+ is fine. 2400 is great though, don’t be too pretentious about it.</p>
<p>I have friends who are at harvard and stanford who got 2080 and 2150 respectively in their SATs. They have told me the essay’s that you write are extremely important. 2100 is enough, solid grades in school, ECA’s and excellent essay’s will get you in no problem.</p>
<p>All that a 2400 will do for you is ensuring the adcoms pay attention to your essays. There’s hardly a difference between 2300-2400, slight difference between 2200-2400, and small difference between 2100-2400. </p>
<p>The difference between 2100 and 2400 can be as little as 6 points on the real test. Colleges, especially the top ones realize that many factors can affect a student’s score on a particular test day and that one test cannot define a student. Colleges merely use the SAT as a mean to vaguely compare applicants. Unless you score significantly lower/higher than other applicants to the same college, your SAT won’t matter much.</p>
<p>It is still impressive, but it won’t compensate a one-dimensional application.</p>
<p>^Thanks for the opinions guys. I do consider my application fairly rounded yet focused on things that I have a passion for. I have about 8 EC’s that I have put good time into including internships and great work experience(I want to go to a business school), I have high test scores, and a pretty high GPA, like 3.85-3.9 UW. Will also have a total of 5-6 AP classes taken including senior year, everything else is honors. I was just wondering how much that 2400 would put me up with my already good stats.</p>
<p>I had a “casual” talk with an admissions officer and he said that the admissions especially for the top schools (IVY’s MIT etc) only look whether the applicant has passed 700 on all sections. They do use the SAT score to reject someone, but they don’t use it to qualify someone over someone else (if you can get what i mean)</p>
<p>Once you get over 2300, it doesn’t matter, unless you have a 700 800 800 (i still see a distinction between a 700 and 800)</p>
<p>It’s not even about 2300, guys, it’s about 750 on all three sections. An evenly balanced 2250 is better than an 800-800-700 2300.</p>
<p>not unless you’re applying to somewhere in canada ;)</p>
<p>I dont think a 2400 would add much really, it is kind of over kill. I think the only IVY league school that I have heard that is pretty tough on SATs is MIT. A class mate of mine got 2280 and was wait listed for MIT but accepted into Harvard.
A 2300 would be more than enough; however, if you have a 2300 or 2400 it wont get you far if you dont have anything else in your application. A friend of mine at Harvard was
telling me how so many students who have 2400s or near perfect scores in their SATs are rejected. Harvard and Stanford care more about the character of the student and how well rounded he or she is than some SAT score. Obviously, SATs are important but not as important as other factors e.g. essays that show passion and charater. </p>
<p>2100 is more than enough</p>
<p>Every score beyond 2100 is known to be an “auto-ivy” score. It means that if you’ve got more than 2100, you have very big chances to get accepted into AT least one of the Ivy League universities.</p>
<p>I perfect score is more impressive than, say, a 2370… but if you’re counting on test scores and class rank, and your extracurricular are marginal, then you’ve got close to no chance anyway.</p>
<p>The rate of admission for students goes up as a student’s score progresses from the 96th to 98th to 99th to the upper echelon of the 99th percentile, so all this “a 2400 isn’t any better than a 2250!” isn’t true, no matter what college deans say. </p>
<p>See this study: [CiteSeerX</a> — A REVEALED PREFERENCE RANKING OF U.S. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES](<a href=“CiteSeerX”>CiteSeerX)</p>
<p>That link doesn’t say what you say it says. And 2250 is already 99th percentile…</p>