Last year 1060 was the average sat score for the world. There were 1.6mm test takers. At 1270 only 360k test takers takers out of the 1.6mm scored 1270 or higher. It’s 20% higher than average. And 85th percentile. Not elite. But not average
How many were juniors seniors or younger I don’t know. But I would believe that most of these taken by juniors and seniors.
Here’s the number of students going to college.
“2015, there were 11.8 million college and university students under age 25 and 8.1 million students 25 years old and over. The numbers of younger and older students increased between 2000 and 2015 (source).”
If we divide the 11.8mm college students under the age of 25 by 4. It’s roughly 3mm freshman. If we assume many of the people are not freshman coming from high school. Say taking longer. Going back etc. let’s reduce by an extra million for random populations. 2mm. Assume half take the act instead. 1mm. So 1mm if sat test takers are seniors and they are going to college. Perhaps community college but many to to hundreds of 4 year schools.
There are 3.6mm graduating seniors. Only 10 percent of this group score 1270 or better.
1270 is not average. It’s just not. And is cc forum bias leading to our judgement of the relative strength of the score. Yep.