<p><em>lets deep breath out</em>
I thought i was the only school w/ crappy school average sats..
all 3 r around the 300-400 range!(GAHd!)
Were speds what do u expect all 3 put together normally is a respectable score for 2 put together(400/400/400=1200=600/600)</p>
<p>1340 or so was the avg of the class of 2005 but they werent a very strong class overall. My class is crazy competitive so it'll probably be a lot higher... thank god we don't rank</p>
<p>ACT is forced for juniors at my public school as well.</p>
<p>CO. Springs Dist. 11</p>
<p>My school's average this year is like a 1240 (610V 630M)</p>
<p>It depends on the number of people in your high school taking the SAT (or ACT for that matter). In Illinois and Colorado, practically everyone takes the ACT, so average ACT scores there are depressed compared to states like Iowa where approx. 2/3 of the students (only those college bound, naturally) take the ACT. It's the same with the SAT. In some states, the ACT is prevalent and only those planning to go out of state take the SAT. So, if only 30% are taking the SAT and those are the most successful and motivated students, and the average is 1200, it could be just a slightly-above-average high school.</p>
<p>I believe it was last year when Thomas Jefferson (a magnet school in Northern Virginia) was the top scorer with an average/median of 1482. It may have been the year before. And I suspect TJ has about 100% of its students taking the test.</p>
<p>Basically, if around 2/3 of your students take the test, and the score is above the median, it probably has more academically inclined students than the average high school. A 1200 would be quite high.</p>
<p>Tarhunt: Do you know where you got 1482 from? It seems absurdly high to me. I go to college with a lot of Stuyvesant kids and one told me their average was 1410 last year.</p>
<p>College Admissions Testing Scores for 2005 Graduates<br>
ACT # 159 Average 25.7
SAT I #346 Mean Verbal 580 Mean Math 608
SAT II No. Mean Score<br>
Biology E
65 593
Biology M 47 630
Chemistry 19 666
French 7 623
Literature 48 640
Math I C 99 638
Math II C 91 717
Physics 5 626
Spanish 10 646
US History 32 719
Writing 183 667
PSAT/NMSQT 302 Juniors<br>
Mean Verbal 57 Mean Math 57.1 Mean Writing 57</p>
<p>At my school, the top score below mine is an 1890 on the new SAT. Second below mine is like an 1850 or something, and next is like 1650. Are we dumb?</p>
<p>My DD's school averages around 1080. It's a medium-sized public school in NJ.</p>
<p>My high school's average was 1430 out of 1600. I went to a public school in New York City.</p>
<p>okay</p>
<p>I went to Stuy ;)</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready, TJ apparently has the highest SAT scores of any American high school (or maybe just public schools. Something like that anyway). I googled it out of curiosity and the first source I came up with (which granted was a wikipedia article) had 1495 as the 2005 average. 756 M, 739 V. Seems reasonable to me, I don't know. I know 8th graders going into TJ this year that already took the SATs and got 800s in math. Seems like all of them were in the 750-800 range. And a lot of kids at TJ probably have good memorization/study skills so by junior year getting that high on verbal seems likely.</p>
<p>That's really amazing. I always thought Exeter/Andover/Stuy were the best.</p>
<p>Yeah I know. But when you look at it, I think the actual test to get into TJ is sort of similar concept to SAT, isn't it? So they are admitting many kids who have already shown aptitude for such a test...makes sense that with three more years after taking that, their SAT average would be pretty high.</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready:</p>
<p>Stuy is a great school and has some of the highest SAT scores in the country. Paul Attewell used both Stuy and TJ in his study on the effects of class rank on Ivy League admissions. I got the 1482 number from that study.</p>
<p>TJ accepts fewer than 20% of applicants from a very high-performing and wealthy suburban school district. It's not hard to get SAT scores like that if you're just selective enough.</p>