<p>For schools of Caltech's caliber?</p>
<p>A 730 is the 72nd percentile. If you’re scoring in the 72nd percentile of the people who take SAT physics, you need to consider whether or not you could even do well at Caltech.</p>
<p>I think people can hardly give you a perfect answer without knowing more about your stats. any information about your essays, APs, GPA, and researches? I believe those AOs judge an applicant as a whole, not by his or her SAT Physics score only. But for an average qualified applicant your score is low, definitely.</p>
<p>and you’d better check out what Caltech students say about the importance of tests before you post. (I think there’s a “how to chance” thread in this forum? It’s weird I cannot find it now. 
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<p>That would depend. If you are an international student or IB student who is taking a slightly different cirriculum to the one that the SAT Physics exam is based on then it is not too bad. In other circumstances I don’t think it reflects too highly but there may be other areas of the application that would discredit this score as being an anolmalous value.</p>
<p>That being said the descisions come out TOMORROW, it’s not that friggin long to wait…</p>
<p>Well I also scored a 730 in physics… And I got in today :)</p>
<p>For comparison, 700 on Physics SAT and got waitlisted today. HAHA.</p>
<p>750 and accepted ED… also 4 on ap physics b…</p>
<p>Lmao, I got a 630 Physics and got in.</p>
<p>800 and rejected</p>
<p>correlation?</p>
<p>hmmm 790 and got in. :)</p>
<p>790 and got in. Though I took 6 and got 5 800s and one 790. And I’m pretty sure they only look at the highest scores. Moral of the story: Do well on your others ones and it shouldn’t matter.</p>
<p>790 on physics and 780 on bio. 800 math. And got in ;)</p>
<p>It’s low…but it shouldn’t be the deciding factor for a school of high caliber anyway. Back in the day, I didn’t even take the physics SAT II, and physics is easily my favorite and strongest of the 3 standard sciences people do. I just took the AP exams. </p>
<p>Rule of thumb – any of these tests should be pretty easy for you given the proper preparation – there should be no intrinsic trouble. But does it end up being the absolute determining point? Not if you have other higher tests to submit. Caltech, while certainly holistic, seems to be a stickler for actual hard and fast academic performance measures, because there’s no getting around doing hard and fast science and maths there.</p>
<p>730 sophomore year w/o AP and accepted EA</p>
<p>Seriously man, you can miss like 15 and still get a perfect.</p>