<p>For my class, it is pretty damn accurate (pardon the French). The top 3 SAT scorers in my school are also the top 3 students. Then a student with a 1900 is ranked 4th (really smart, just doesn't test well), then the 4th highest scorer is ranked 5th. So out of the top 5 students in my class, 4 of them were the top SAT scorers. </p>
<p>I know that what is true of my class isn't always true of other classes. So, how well does the SAT correlate to your class ranks?</p>
<p>For my school, pretty much accurate too, the top scores are mostly kids in the top 10 ranks.</p>
<p>def not accurate at my school</p>
<p>i got the highest score on the psat and most likely on the sat too although not everyone's taken it a final time yet and i'm ranked like 20something</p>
<p>my best friend is the valedictorian and she didn't do very well on the sats..</p>
<p>It is decent. We had no perfect scores, but the top 2 (plus #5, or something) all got 35's (from Illinois...ACT regins supreme). The rest of the top got 34's and 33's, generally. I will say, however, that I was unimpressed with some of the kids' corresponding SAT performance. One of the 35's took that SAT and got a 2090, which is obviously not even close to the same level. Some other kids (generally strong math/science weak humanities) were similarly favored by the ACT. So...the top kids all got good scores, but not necessarily better than slightly lower ranked kids, especially when other tests (AP, SAT II) are thrown in.</p>
<h1>1-2310</h1>
<h1>2-2310</h1>
<h1>3-2360</h1>
<h1>4(me)-2300</h1>
<p>then i dont know anyone else...so not really in order, but we are allll prettty close. #3 and i both have higher 1600-scale scores than #1 and #2.</p>
<p>^^That's a pretty smart school. We didn't have one 2300. The top scorer got a 2280 (1560/1600), but an 8 on the essay kept him from breaking 2300. </p>
<p>My school's top 5 are:</p>
<h1>1 - 2280</h1>
<h1>2 - 2240</h1>
<h1>3 - 2270</h1>
<h1>4 - 1900</h1>
<h1>5 - 2220</h1>
<p>Me: #21 - 2030</p>
<p>This was the order at the end of jr. year. The top 3 students are separated by less than a point (on the 100 point scale) and the 2270 kid had the highest semester avg this year, so these ranks could change.</p>
<p>"One of the 35's took that SAT and got a 2090, which is obviously not even close to the same level."</p>
<p>The opposite is true at my school. Everyone seems to do better on the SAT. I think it's because we're in NY, where the SAT is supreme.</p>
<h1>1 - 2190</h1>
<h1>2 (me) - 2320</h1>
<h1>3 - 2000</h1>
<p>...</p>
<h1>15 - 2150</h1>
<p>Skewed six ways to Sunday.</p>
<p>haha.. my school is ridiculous compared to this... At my school we say " Rank measures effort, standardized testing measures wit."</p>
<p>1.29
2.31
3.30
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14.30</p>
<p>so yeah..</p>
<p>Our valedictorian scored worse than our salutatorian.</p>
<p>2040 vs. 2280 </p>
<p>Biggg difference. The valedictorian has around a 4.7 weighted and the salutatorian has around a 4.6 weighted. </p>
<p>And I also know that there are people who rank around 10/200 or 13/200 who have higher scores than the valedictorian. They atleast scored a 2220. Oh, and I think that 3/200 got around a 2250. </p>
<p>But then again, 6/200 got like a 1950... <em>gasp</em> Our school is quite messed up...</p>
<p>Statistically, or as far as populations are concerned, there should NOT be any correspondence between SAT score and class rank. Any such perceived correspondence must be only a coincidence. </p>
<p>PS - You might want to tell College Board about your findings, they would love to find any evidence that the SAT correlates with anything other than amount of preparation conscientiously completed.</p>
<p>I agree with Chris</p>
<p>Here is our Top 3</p>
<h1>5 1510/1600</h1>
<h1>121 1580/1600</h1>
<h1>131 1550/1600</h1>
<p>No correlation whatsoever with class rank</p>
<p>My GPA (very high) did not at all correlate to my first SAT (rather pathetic).</p>
<p>Mine did not correlate at all. I'd say my GPA is around the 30% (in very hard, competitive private school) but I had the highest SAT score of 2380 in the school. Weird, but yay!</p>
<p>1-2190
2-2150
3-2050
4- 1710</p>
<p>LOL some others in the top then with 1700s... they just try SOO hard in school</p>
<p>My school doesn't rank, but from the people I know, I'd say GPA and test scores have a strong positive correlation.</p>
<p>That's interesting, Hepstar. It seems to me that strong math/science kids do better on the ACT--that 35/2090 fits that description. Strong humanities kids like myself seem to do slightly better on the SAT (34 ACT/2290 SAT). The top SAT scorer got a 34 ACT/2340, class rank 6ish/768 (she also almost cancelled the SAT after she took it because she thought that it went so poorly). 1600 scale is something else entirely...I got a 1580 and that was the highest score. I'm ranked 14/768. Basically, test scores at my school are all over the place. Add in SAT II's and AP's, and you really start to see who's the cream of the crop, in my opinion.</p>
<ol>
<li>2300</li>
<li>2260</li>
<li>2380</li>
<li>2320</li>
<li>2300</li>
<li>2310</li>
<li>2140</li>
<li>2030 (me)</li>
</ol>
<p>we have ~400 people in our senior class. i guess there's correlation with class rank?</p>
<p>btw, out of those top 6 people, 2 got into stanford, 2 got deferred from stanford, 1 got deferred from princeton, and not sure about the other one, just heard he got 2310.</p>
<p>Today, my school recalculated the class ranks based on the senior mid-year grades. The top 5 ranks changed around quite a bit. </p>
<p>My school's new top 5 are:</p>
<h1>1 - 2240 (used to be #2)</h1>
<h1>2 - 2280 (used to be #1)</h1>
<h1>3 - 2270 (stayed the same)</h1>
<h1>4 - 2220 (used to be #5)</h1>
<h1>5 - 2170 (used to be #6)</h1>
<h1>6 - 1900 (used to be #5)</h1>
<p>The sal overtook the val for the top spot in the class. It surprised everyone, since the 2280 kid has always been considered the "class genius." The 1900 kid dropped in the ranks a bit due to BC Calc, which he had a B in.</p>
<p>In my junior class (out of 485 students), the PSAT's went something like this:</p>
<h1>1 - 228</h1>
<h1>2 - 186 <- she's dropped by now though</h1>
<h1>3 - 219</h1>
<h1>4 - 219</h1>
<h1>5 - 228</h1>
<h1>6 - 209</h1>
<p>...</p>
<h1>15 (me) - 223</h1>
<p>I guess it correlates somewhat.</p>
<p>My school doesn't rank.
How do you guys know the top scores in your school or anyone's SAT score but your own? does your school announce the scores or something? I know my school has two 240 psat's this year. But I haven't heard of any 2400 SAT yet so far. It's about all that I know.</p>