<p>There is not a whole lot of difference between 2100 and 2200 and 2300. Once you are at around 2200, they simply take SAT score out of the equation in top colleges.</p>
<p>I completely agree! I know a girl who got a 2300 and actually started CRYING because it was “so low.” What the hell, girl? What the hell</p>
<p>i remember getting my SAT score and being so happy. everyone was saying “OMG you’ll get in everywhere” and being the naive fool i was, i kinda believed them</p>
<p>talk about pressure. rejection after rejection rolled in. i wasn’t a slouch when it came to HS activities, but i fell way behind a lot of applicants, SAT scores notwithstanding.</p>
<p>You know it doesn’t help that you post on the chance forum with a 2200 and people say, “OMG THERE’S NO WAY YOU CAN GET IN TO HYPSMC GET UP TO 2390 AT LEAST!!!”</p>
<p>I do agree with the sentiments that wanting to improve your score is okay as long as you don’t get pretentious about it.</p>
<p>Guys, should I retake a 2400? I know it’s a perfect score, but a couple of people finished before me on some sections and I really want to be the first one done.</p>
<p>GPA is more important.</p>
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<p>I’ve seen this asked on here before.</p>
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<p>What is the source of this information? For example Princeton has a correlation chart between scores and % rate, and you can clearly see that students with scores in 2300+ bracket have a higher acceptance rate than, say, 2200-(2300). Harvard accepts 40% of 2400s. Yes, it could possibly mean that all of those applicants with higher scores may have something else in their applications, but I think that nevertheless the relation is obvious. Top schools will always tell you that SAT “is not all that important”, so more people are encouraged to apply and lower their admission rate.</p>
<p>I know FOR SURE that my admission outcomes would not be the same if my SAT was, say, 2100 or 2200 instead of the 2330 that it is. It’s all very intangible but in this hyper-competitive climate where 13 applicants vie for 1 place in H or Y, 100 more points is surely better than none at all.</p>
<p>But yes, its very annoying when people ask, in caps with smiley faces, if they should retake a 2360 or higher as if they’re really “devastated”. Because that’s a lie. You may WANT to take it again because u’re a perfectionist but a >2300 is in no way a cause for devastation.</p>
<p>In my day, SAT scores peaked at 1600 and we walked five miles in the snow BAREFOOT just to take them.</p>
<p>Actually, I’m thinking the same thing about these “PPLZ!!! A 2200 IS NOT BAD!!!” threads.</p>
<p>^Agreed. I see “I hate when people on here ask if they should retake high scores” much more often than “Should I retake this high score?”</p>
<p>It’s still a bit disgusting to see these pretentious, sheltered, over-achievers whine and complain about getting a 2200 on the SAT, or not getting accepted into Yale or Harvard. I swear if these people ever have a bout with reality I am sincerely sympathetic.</p>
<p>^90% of those threads are jokes. I see very few genuine ones. Maybe I don’t go on the right subforums, but I see all sorts of the threads that blast retakers.</p>
<p>As a math and science person, I’d probably retake if I had, say, a 2250 with 800 CR, 800 writing, and 650 math.</p>
<p>If you were a math and science person, a 650 in math would be completely unexpected.
And yeah, you can always combine scores.</p>
<p>You getting yours back tomorrow?</p>
<p>As someone who hasn’t gotten an A in a math class since the 6th grade, I was pretty happy with my 630 on the math section.</p>
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<p>It’s even more annoying to see pretentious over-achievers that are bitter about their low test scores complain about threads that really only exist in their imagination. ;)</p>
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My Indian (the Asian variety) friend was accepted into Cornell with a 2250.</p>
<p>But I see where you’re going at. That’s why I’m retaking my 2250.</p>
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But if you have to candidates with almost the same GPA, and comparable activities, recs, etc. …
then the difference between a 2150 and a 2350 is going to be the deciding factor in that case.</p>
<p>I never took the SAT, and I’m transferring!</p>
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