<p>Can someone explain how harvard's 75 percentile is 2370?..
if only 800+ people a year get a sat score of 2370?
And what about other colleges if you add up the entire 75 percentile students who were addmited to top colleges you would find 20000+ people who got 2350+
When there are actually much fewer in that year of the test.
I hope someone is able to help clarify this.</p>
<p>Where did you find out that 2370 is harvard’s 75th percentile (I hope you didn’t just add together the 75th percentile for each section…)? If that number is legitimate, then you have to take into account superscoring.</p>
<p>what is superscoring?..
no I took it from here [Harvard</a> University | Admissions Facts and Statistics](<a href=“http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/harvard.asp]Harvard”>http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/harvard.asp)</p>
<p>Let’s assume Harvard’s entering class is about 1700.</p>
<p>The number of people who get a 2370+ combined on the SAT every year is 1060 from <a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>Some percentage - probably less than a quarter - of people admitted to Harvard only take the SAT. So the pool we’re looking at is now closer to 1400. Twenty five percent of that (the upper quartile) has us down to 350.</p>
<p>So there are 350 slots for those 1060 scores. Harvard also has a high number of applicants who took some time off after high school, so they probably have a few more folks applying than those who just took the SAT in the application year.</p>
<p>It’s also in Harvard’s best interest to superscore* SAT tests for purposes of reporting scores. That confounds the numbers entirely.</p>
<p>Conclusion: It’s entirely plausible whether or not Harvard reports one-sitting or superscored results.</p>
<p>Myth busted.</p>
<p>*Superscore means that the highest scores from sections over multiple testing dates are used instead of a single test date’s composite.</p>
<p>Superscoring is taking the highest sub-score over multiple test dates for a composite score. For example:</p>
<p>JUN 08 - 800 CR, 700 M, 700 W
OCT 08 - 700 CR, 800 M, 700 W
DEC 08 - 700 CR, 700 M, 800 W</p>
<p>Your highest single sitting score is 2300, but your “super score” is 2400.</p>
<p>^ Highest single sitting is 2200 ;)</p>
<p>Well, it seems Harvard superscored their own statistics to make it look better :)</p>
<p>[College</a> Search - Harvard College - SAT®, AP®, CLEP®](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=1251&profileId=6)</p>
<p>Also, there are people who took the SAT as a freshman and got about a 2370. So there are actually more people applying to Harvard with better than a 2370.</p>
<p>None of you has it perfectly right but “secret asian man” is sort of onto it. </p>
<p>They DON’T superscore each student’s individual scores and then do the statistics. That would make the 2370 number highly improbable. Instead they take all three SAT sections’ 25%-75% range and then add those up (sort of cheap since it doesn’t give the applicant a clear picture of his or her individual chances.) This is NOT statistically the same as superscoring and then doing the stats…it’s more like mix and match the best.</p>
<p>25%-75% Ranges for Three SAT Sections
SAT CR: 690-800
SAT M: 700-780
SAT W: 690-790</p>
<p>2080-2370 is the 25%-75% range, as you can see by adding the endpoints for the lowest and the highest, and this corresponds to the above link.</p>
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<p>I believe the statistics referenced (composite SAT numbers) is for ALL 2009 COLLEGE-BOUND SENIORS. This would include those seniors who had taken the test in freshman, sophomore, and junior year. The stats are compiled for the entire class of 2009 itself.</p>
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<p>. . . so that their reputation can catch up to . . . whose? :)</p>