<p>Actually, tjd, a small but growing number of schools DO superscore the ACT.</p>
<p>I’d recommend that the OP try taking the ACT - a fair number of students do quite a bit better percentile-wise on the ACT compared to the SAT (eg, a student may have a combined SAT at the 85th percentile, but get an ACT composite at the 95th percentile).
Give it a shot - it’s a different type of test (and IMHO, seems like the essay prompts for the writing portion are not nearly so wacky and stressful. YMMV.)</p>
<p>*790 CRs are the same group that are also getting an 800 M and 800 W. If that were the case, you’d have about the same number of people getting 2400s as you do 800s. *</p>
<p>Students are taking the SAT multiple times.</p>
<p>one time a student could get M800 CR 720 W700 (2220)
the next time could get M720 CR 800 W720 (2240)
the next time could get M700 CR 720 W800 (2220)</p>
<p>yet, the highest single sitting score is … 2240…even though the school superscores the student to 2400.</p>
<p>Mom2, it’s not that I don’t understand your point, just that I don’t agree with it. I read a study recently (sorry, I can’t find the reference to it now) that indicated that there was very little difference in the raw number of people who get 2400s in one sitting, and the number who superscore to 2400. This is supported by the “improvement” data that Collegeboard posts. Adding up the 75th percentile scores in each category is simply not a feasible approach to determine that the 75th percentile at Princeton is 2390 … remember, the individual categories are “superscored” too, in the sense that only the highest score for the student is represented. So, to get a 2390, all students above the 75th percentile would have to get individual scores above the 75th percentile.</p>