<p>I resent her comment too.. my SAT I score was a 1470.. and I didn't know what to expect on the writing and got a 690 which isn't too bad.. but I could do better (only took it once). I am not extremely hardcore, and nor do I spend all my time studying. I do have a life, and I don't understand why you think people on here lie. As egotistical as that would be, it seems even moreso to me that you have to deny other people's scores to make yourself better in comparison. I'm sorry, but I can't stand it when people generalize like that.</p>
<p>First off, to pepgirly14, you can say whatever you’d like to yourself in a lame effort to make yourself feel better, but don’t post your deprecating thoughts on this forum, please… I happen to be a skilled test taker, that scored 2300 on my third and final sitting of the SAT I (2330 super-score). I barely studied for it (any of the three times), and get good grades without all-night studying too. Not everyone has to sacrifice fun in their life to have an impressive resume, and people like you can either continue to try to put those with good SAT scores down to make yourself feel better, or start focusing on making yourself into the best ‘Pepgirly14’ you can be. I hope you pick the mature route.</p>
<p>To address the issue of the importance of SATs, they must be treated as part of your application, not your whole app. Only then can you assess their importance. See, I (as previously mentioned) got a 2330 (super-scored) on the SAT (1600/1600), and got rejected from four of the nine schools I applied to (Yale, Berkeley Engineering, Chicago, and MIT), and wait-listed from three (Brown, Columbia SEAS, and Wash U). I got into Rice with some money, and Harvard (the school I will be attending fall of 2011).</p>
<p>I got rejected from Chicago, but one of my friends with a significantly lower SAT got in. I got wait-listed from Wash U, and a different one of my friends got into there with a lower SAT score.</p>
<p>It can help if it is very good. It can hurt if it’s particularly bad. Those are both, by the way, relative terms (good and bad are not objective, and depend on the school; to get a rough idea of good and bad scores for a school, check the middle 50% range of scores). However, kids get into Harvard and Yale with OK SAT scores, and get rejected from less competitive schools with great scores, because they are not all that makes up an application. If you can express passion in your application, or show your diligence, or illustrate your integrity, those can go a long way in mitigating whatever harm a weak SAT score can do, and weak qualities can undermine a 2400.</p>
<p>I hope this helps put the importance of this college board standardized exam in context. Good luck!</p>
<p>Dude… 5 year old thread…</p>
<p>Ha, the OP is probably graduated and already unemployed by now…</p>
<p>Nevertheless, a lesson worth repeating. Nice post, Trevorjbs.</p>
<p>…My scores haven’t even come out yet =(</p>
<p>And I think I bombed the whole thing.</p>
<p>Arrrhhh!!</p>
<p>Well look on the bright side,</p>
<p>colleges like to see improvement.</p>
<p>So work harder, do more practice tests,</p>
<p>and you’ll be fine!</p>
<p>wow… pretty old thread</p>
<p>anyway, </p>
<p>a 2090 is nowhere near a 99th percentile</p>
<p>as i recall, the score for a 99th percentile is exactly 2230.</p>
<p>I thought it was like 2290</p>
<p>You know that the avg SAT score is a bit more than 1500</p>
<p>Some facts:</p>
<p>It’s quite rare to get a 2300 - in 2008 5684 kids got 2300 or better; that’s about 1/3 of 1% of the country</p>
<p>There are over 14,000 frosh slots in the Ivies, and over 50,000 slots in the Top 30 schools.</p>
<p>2200 and above is top 1.5%</p>
<p>well “average” also happens to be a “C” grade, and probably isn’t what people aim for :)</p>
<p>actually, arwen, with grade inflation it isn’t anymore. It USED to be “average”.</p>
<p>True that 
I guess WE know that scores and grades aren’t everything and we shouldn’t assume cOlleges don’t realize that</p>