<p>does this hurt/help me with admissions (my sat score is much higher anyway) [School is in the 74th percentile on SAT scores]</p>
<p>it's a public</p>
<p>it just means that you have to be maybe top 1 or 2 percent of your school to be considered competitive, instead of like top 10% for a very top-notch private school.</p>
<p>Haha, only on CC is that even a problem. My old school’s average SAT score was a 1470 (yes, all three sections). I scored that in two sections. My new school is like a 1550.</p>
<p>That’s rather good actually, my school’s average is a 1610.</p>
<p>I don’t think that the college would know about your school’s average SAT scores unless it is an elite prep school from which they receive many applications. My school’s average SAT score is 1343(3 sections) while that of the magnet school here is 2015.</p>
<p>My school’s is probably 1200-1400 (all three sections). But I don’t think colleges will see that unless your school releases that data.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t know why you’re worried… my public school has an average of 1200 (on 2 sections) so I guess that’s probably an 1800 and we’re considered one of the top in the state and send 80-100 to top 15 every year… a 1720 is really really good.</p>
<p>My public magnet has a 1761 average. Odd, I really can’t imagine HALF my class getting below that score, cause it’s a really good school. So don’t worry a public with a 1700+ average is good.</p>
<p>Agreed. Any public with 1700+ is actually quite excellent. My high school (public and not a magnet school) has a 1722 average. Lots of people are admitted into top schools. Off the top of my head, from last year: UPenn, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown, Duke, UChicago, WashU, Dartmouth, Columbia, MIT, Rice, Cornell, JHU, Northwestern, so on and so forth. (Heck, I think the only one we don’t have a rep. at is Yale.) So, point being, don’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>Haha, my current school’s average is less than that. That’s decent for a public school.</p>
<p>lol, the problem lies in the fact that we don’t send too many kids to top schools a year</p>
<p>~24/550 went to the top 24 schools [us news] last year</p>
<p>that’s only 5% of the kids</p>
<p>You just need to ensure that you take the hardest classes available and rank within the top 10% of your class (if your school ranks).</p>
<p>spectravoid… this is still a CC only problem. My old school has graduated a class of 225 every year and only once in the last five years did we send a student to a school even remotely recognizable on CC (College Park in-state aside). We sent a full pay, double-legacy to Rice.</p>