How many people with 2300+

Test Preparation
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<p>How many people in the nation get 2300+ SAT score each year? I heard its between 4000-6000 but not 100% sure. Also, if you get 2300+ and only 5000 people in the nation get such a score, aren't you guarenteed a spot at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, UPenn? I mean each one of them takes in 1500 freshman and only 5000 people get 2300+...:))))</p>

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<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2011.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>then again this is seniors…i hit 23+ as a junior</p>

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<p>Nope, you are not guaranteed a spot if you get 2300+.</p>

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<p>It is the seniors who apply and they may have those scores from any year.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>8000 seniors nationally scored 2300 or above in 2012 and in our district most of the SAT takers are done by their Junior year. If that is representative, there are plenty more……</p>

<p>And no you are not guaranteed a spot…</p>

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<p>If you were guaranteed a spot at any top-tier school with a 2300+ there would be a LOT more asians in those schools…</p>

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<p>You are definitely not guaranteed a spot at those top schools. If you were there would be almost no point in this website because the only thing people would need to know about college admissions is that you need an SAT score 2300+…</p>

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<p>The reason 2300 doesn’t guarantee a spot is because believe it or not, schools look at more than just a score from a 4 hour test.</p>

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<p>Someone I know didn’t get into yale with a 2400, so there you go</p>

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<p>The College Board figures given in that site above are for the senior class for any SAT tests taken anytime during high school and scores are for a single sitting. The actual number of seniors applying to college each year who are deemed to have 2300 or above is easily double or triple those figures given by CB simply because the majority of colleges superscore SAT tests and thus many get 2300 or above as a result of colleges using the highest section scores from multiple tests.</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>Statistically the conjecture that “superscoring” has a 2x-3x impact on the number of 2300+ scores is unfounded. In practice college board data shows that test retakes are slightly more likely to lead to a lower score than a higher one. And at the 2200+ SAT score level, where improvement often means getting almost every question right the likelihood of improvement on retakes is sharply diminished compared to that at sub 2000 scores. </p>

<p>I would take the college board numbers for the number of 2300+ scores at face value and not over-think them.</p>