<p>lol, ok??? weird.</p>
<p>Yeah really, its alright to shoot for a 2300 and hope you get that, but to cry over a 2300 just shows how detached from reality you really are. Look at any of the admit threads for HYP and you’ll see that there were plenty of 2300ers rejected and plenty of non-URM/athlete/special case 2200ers accepted. Stop worrying about racking up so many activities and so many points on a SAT. Now I can see if you get under 2200 how that might be a problem if you are looking at schools ranked top 10, but after that you really shouldn’t be that upset, especially with just a 2300. Or just a 2370. Hell, even a 2390 is something to retake it over. Range-wise the same as a 2400, but heck, just retake it cause you got one wrong. Remember that there has to be a 60 point discrepancy for one score to be considered superior to another in one section.</p>
<p>Not you Joker. Arachnotron. lol</p>
<p>Arachnotron should just make fun of kids until 5. It would make the time go faster, and funnier.</p>
<p>^gothic
not that ballsy of a statement</p>
<p>i knew you were talking about Arachnotron, lol</p>
<p>I’m always afraid of hurting people’s feelings. So if they want to reach for a 2300, I sit back and smile instead of crushing their dream via the Web. haha</p>
<p>ok so what is the actual time. Why am i hearing that they will come out at 2?</p>
<p>Not taking it again cause I know I did the best I could, which hopefully translates into a good score :)</p>
<p>2 am pst. 5 am est.</p>
<p>If top colleges really didn’t care about scores over 2300, Harvard and Yale wouldn’t fill over a quarter of tier class with people that scored 2390+ (the top end of the median 50%). In fact, these people probably make up more than a third of the non-URM non-Athlete class. They make up a small, small portion of people with scores in the 2200+ range and top schools pick them out and admit them.</p>
<p>oh nvm then im not staying up</p>
<p>^Where the hell did you get those numbers from? The combined SAT ranges may suggest that (for maybe four schools), but you should consider that very few students are above the range in all of those categories. Also, I just looked up Harvard’s range, and 25% of their admits are below 690 in CR; 25% are below 700 in math.</p>
<p>lol i dont want to but i know im gonna stay up all night, im not gonna be able to sleep. SO might as well keep checking my scores.</p>
<p>of course they care, but their sats scores certainly did not get those people in. of course 800s look impressive, but high scores are just expected. If you’re in their range for sats, many other things matter before that.</p>
<p>I got it from USNews, 2007 numbers.
Harvard middle 50%: 1400 - 1590
Yale middle 50%: 1400 - 1590
Since there are dozens of times more people out there with scores at the bottom of the range than those at the top, the rational conclusion is that any individual’s odds decrease precipitously as their score lowers.</p>
<p>This is why I’m retaking, even if I somehow get a 2300 (which I probably won’t).</p>
<p>Hey tards I’m back. Those ranges are the combined ranges of the individual sections. That means that 25% of the class doesn’t have 2390+. It means that 25% got 800 on CR or whatever, 25% got 800 on math, and 25% got 790 or 800 on writing. Woo hoo, that accounts for a huge range of applicants. Someone could fall into that range for one but not the others. Your statistic is wrong.</p>
<p>Uh… a guy from our school just got into Harvard with a 2080… But he runs like 3 miles under 15 min and has tremendous achievements. He isn’t dumb, he is really smart, probably didn’t obsess over the SAT and just took it once. Proves that the score doesn’t make it or break it…</p>
<p>I don’t think so (cicero), because Harvard’s numbers don’t add up that way. ***, in fact, the numbers make no sense:</p>
<p>SAT Critical Reading 25th-75th percentile range: 700-800
SAT Math 25th-75th percentile range: 700-790
SAT Writing 25th-75th percentile range: 690-790</p>
<p>How could the class possibly be 1400 -1590 overall? Somebody at USNews or Harvard is making up numbers lol.</p>
<p>Also, do not mistake correlation and cause. Although there are more 2300ers accepted to HYP than 2200ers, that does not mean that the SAT score was the cause of that increased acceptance rate. There are many more 2200ers applying than 2300ers, and the 2300ers usually have some other credentials that are superior rather than just test scores. Really, the SAT score boost will not increase your chances that much. And if I were an adcom and I saw someone with a 2300 retake I would reject them for being neurotic and out of touch with reality. I actually do know someone who did that, val and everything. This person got rejected almost across the board. Why? Boring applicant. Nothing new was brought to the table. So yeah, congradurashunz, you retook the SAT after getting a 2300, but you still got rejected from all the top schools and the sal with the low 2200s SATs got accepted everywhere.</p>