<p>Just wondering - for ivies.</p>
<p>I was trying to convince my cousin that it is, but now i'm not too sure what to tell him.</p>
<p>advice, CC?</p>
<p>Any doubt??</p>
<p>It’s lowish… Low medium I’d say</p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-I535 using CC</p>
<p>For Ivies (or other top schools), it’s normal. Definitely okay though.</p>
<p>For anywhere else, it’s really awesome.</p>
<p>99th Percentile is low-medium to you?</p>
<p>“2230” is the wrong way to think about it. What are your scores on the various sections? 740/750/740 might be fine. 700/730/800, less so.</p>
<p>@Sikorsky and @rreynard112,</p>
<p>Now I know where to go to know who may be trolling on other threads…
<em>cough</em> this thread*cough</p>
<p>You might as well say “Oh darling… yeah sure… 2230 is okay if this is your best. I mean it just means your stupid that’s all… You can never succeed in life with such IQ, but again… no pressure” </p>
<p>I refuse to believe ppl like some of the CC’ers exist in real life… seriously, the attitude is just UNBEARABLE.</p>
<p>I am simply saying that not all scores of 2230 are equally good.</p>
<p>I am sorry you can’t bear that.</p>
<p>It’s not that that i can’t bear, it’s the " 740/750/740 might be fine. 700/730/800, less so." MIGHT BE FINE!!!</p>
<p>anyway… i was too harsh… but my point is…
MIGHT BE FINE!!!
LESS SO?! </p>
<p>the scores are AMAZING… full stop…</p>
<p>It just makes me sad to be in a World where 2200+ “might be fine”… srsly…
anyway… matter of opinion…</p>
<p>For Ivies, you’ll need 2300+ to be safe-ish.</p>
<p>LOL @2200andbeyondXD</p>
<p>I am not so sure about that. </p>
<p>First of all, I don’t think there’s any serious problem with 2250 if it’s 750/750/750. I stand by my earlier contention that it’s not about the top-line score, but rather all about the section scores.</p>
<p>And second, I don’t think the word safe belongs anywhere in a discussion of Ivy League (and their peers) admissions. The admit rates are often less than 10% (and often way less than 10% for unhooked applicants), and the number of highly qualified applicants who are denied far exceeds the number who are admitted.</p>
<p>2300+ may be what it takes to be “safe” for the Ivys, but consider that only 8000 (out of the 1.6 Million that take the test every year) score 2300 or higher at a single sitting. Given that the Ivys superscore AND you are competing against those who take the ACT (which for the top kids are mostly the same people since most of these people take both tests), then maybe you increase the total of 2300+ (or similar) by about 50% to maybe 12, 000 high school students. But there are 14000 spots in the Ivys and plenty more at schools like MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Williams (and many others) that regularly enrole students with 2300+. Point here is that if you have a 2300+ or for that matter, a 2250+ SAT score, you are “likely” to get into a very good school.</p>
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<p>Really, only about 50%? That would surprise me a lot, given that students can not only have essentially attempts, but also pick and choose scores from separate sittings.</p>
<p>its fine, honestly sats aren’t that important; gpa is the real deal</p>
<p>They aren’t as important as GPA, but they definitely still factor into the equation significantly (If a student had a high GPA, but low SAT score, that brings the question of grade inflation into question).</p>
<p>I would say 2230 is definitely okay for the Ivies (as in it won’t hold you back, and if you don’t get it, it definitely won’t be because of your score). Depending on the situation (i.e. any hooks, ECs, GPA), I would probably still try to get it higher though, since competition is so tough, and in the case of 2 applicants similar in all other aspects, the one with the 2400 will win out against the one with the 2200.</p>
<p>No, it’s a score that is bad, and you should feel bad.</p>
<p>On a more serious note, it would be way beyond what most people consider “decent.” Trying to score any higher may not do you any good, as perfect scorers get rejected all the time at Ivy Leagues. If you have something else that you could be doing that would benefit your transcript, I would do that instead.</p>
<p>Terrible score. Probably should just off yourself right now</p>
<p>A 2230 won’t hold you back from the top schools, especially Stanford, which - based on my anecdotal observations - seems to have a more holistic admissions process. </p>
<p>Still, if you get rejected from the top schools, do you really want to be kicking yourself, wondering if it was that pesky sub 2300 score that did it? Check out this thread, and maybe consider taking it again or trying the ACT:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1173822-my-fast-sat-prep-guide-how-i-went-2080-2340-10-days.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1173822-my-fast-sat-prep-guide-how-i-went-2080-2340-10-days.html</a></p>
<p>2230 is a very good score and won’t get anyone knocked out of the admissions process at the Ivies, but there really is no “Safe” SAT score if by “safe” you mean it will get you admitted.</p>
<p>Sikorsky is correct that not all "2230"s are the same. A higher math score is deemed more rare for girls than boys. An 800 on CR is more rare than an 800 in math. Most schools place a higher value on the CR and Math score than they do on the Writing score.</p>
<p>That being said, a 2230 is a very good score - within the top 1% of the applicant pool. There are thousands of students outside the top 1% of SAT score who will be admitted to Ivies and thousands within the top 1% who will not be admitted.</p>
<p>For those that do not look behind the number, 2230 is a loss of 170 total points. In the range we are talking about, especially where 1 wrong question means the loss of a quarter point, which can mean the loss of a full raw point (by taking you to a .75 from a .50) as well as the loss of the raw point for the question being answered incorrectly, we are talking about possibly the difference between a straight 2400 contrasted with a 2230 being as little as 3-4 MORE answers being incorrect. On a 4 hour exam. With 170 total questions. And an experimental section.</p>