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2150 - 98 percentile
2200 - 99 percentile
2300 - 99.65 percentile
2400 - 99.98 percentile</p>
<p>You work out how different they are...
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This is the key post. There are a hundred kids with a 2150+ for every kid with a 2400.</p>
<p>Here's another way to put it. If you're a 2200 person who would like to think your score is the equivalent of a 2350, do you want to be considered equivalent to a 2080 as well?</p>
<p>Nearly any college that's not totally number driven will consider a 2080 and a 2200 equivalent. The college board, the organization with the most vested interest in maintaining that differences in test scores are meaningful, tells them so every single time they send out a score. From the college board's site:</p>
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To consider one score better than another, there must be a difference of 60 points between your critical reading and math scores, 80 points between your critical reading and writing scores, and 80 points between your math and writing scores. . . . Colleges know this and they receive the score ranges along with your scores.
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<p>They're framing it for students in terms of comparing one of their scores to another, but the margin of error in the test is roughly the same in comparing two different applicant's scores.</p>
<p>(In response to Murasaki)</p>
<p>I didn't say no Asian would get in. I said even 2400 may not be sufficient (so why talk of 2250!). Which non-SAT factor are you alluding to? Wait, I know, it is discussed extensively in other threads :-)</p>