<p>i got about 2250?? on SSAT.</p>
<p>My Math score was 800 and 99%</p>
<p>is it enough to get accepted to Andover?</p>
<p>Who knows??!! My math score was 99% as were all my scores and my total was 2360, I have straight A's and I was rejected from Andover.... but I got into EXETER...... :)<br>
You never know until you apply!</p>
<p>That's enough to keep you in the running at Andover and possibly get accepted. I have a little lower (2247) and I'm expecting a rejection/WL. I'd suggest you apply to a bunch of schools - safeties, matches, and reaches. You won't know how important this is until you actually get the decisions on March 10th. </p>
<p>Are you applying next year or waiting for decisions this year?</p>
<p>I applied to Andover this year. And I applied to this high school called Thomas Jefferson High School for Technology and Science. It's like magnet school in my county.</p>
<p>i already got rejection from Exeter.</p>
<p>I might apply again next year, if i didn't get into any schools.</p>
<p>As you'll hear a lot on this board, your SSAT score is amon the least important (if not THE least important) parts of your application. More important are: hooks, ECs, recommendations, interview, grades, current situation, if you are applying for financial aid, and others. </p>
<p>A good SSAT score will definitely not guarantee you admission at Andover, though it should be a part of a good application.</p>
<p>While it is clear that a good SSAT score will not guarantee your admission, I think that a "not so good" SSAT score is going to make it pretty hard for you to gain admission. It is not that the SSAT is not important, I think that the top tier schools just expect most of their applicants to have pretty good SSAT scores.</p>
<p>...for consideration. But at another top school this year I was told that close to 300...THREE HUNDRED!...applicants who had at least one 99% SSAT score were flat out rejected.</p>
<p>At many schools --top 15-20 -- the reaction to a 99% score is...</p>
<p>"YAWN...Okay, you think you got game? SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT, APPLICANT!"</p>
<p>You better have some meat in your application, because the 99% is like having a sparkly cover to an art portfolio. It gets attention, but you need to impress them with the stuff inside.</p>
<p>There's a certain burden that you get with that score, too. Have you embraced challenges in your academic career? Are you one-dimensional? And do you have some of the interests and ECs that, by luck of the draw, are in demand this year?</p>
<p>At yet another school the Dean of Admission told me that this year he dug a little deeper (but, in truth, not very deep at all) to find two candidates who play a certain instrument. I kid you not. If you played a flooglephone this year and wanted to go to this school, you got a second look-see. Great news, right? Well, not if you play the flooglephone and will be applying to that school next year, it isn't. That stuff is simply out of your control, Mr. and Ms. 99%er. And you have no idea going in what you need to be flaunting, so you'd best let it all hang out. In this case, the AdCom didn't know they needed to land a flooglephone player for next fall until after the application deadline passed. Call it madness. Call it luck. Call it fate.</p>
<p>I think I'll call it "99%sezwhat?"</p>
<p>IMO, a PASSION for an activity that goes beyond the classroom and brings something to share with the bs community is what will set [you] apart from the many, many applicants with good to great stats (SSAT scores, recs, grades, etc, etc).</p>
<p>I think the key is that kids should be well rounded and have multiple interests, not just academics, but let's not "pooh-pooh" these kids getting 99% on their SSATs, it is still quite an accomplishment, and they should be proud.</p>
<p>True, true, 2sonmom! But the question was -- in a nutshell -- "What prize do I get from Andover for that score?" Applause. Congratulations. An interviewer who sincerely wants you to apply.</p>
<p>If we cut to the chase, however, you can't parlay the score into an offer of admission from a school such as Andover. The real meat of the application...the stuff that will distinguish you from among the many 94-99%ers who flood the school with applications...is elsewhere. The whole point of the SSAT score is to provide a common denominator. Right there one should realize that it isn't used to distinguish applicants. 1800 applicants spread out evenly over 99 percentiles is -- roughly -- 18 applicants per %ile. And you know that few apply with under 50%ile scores. In fact, if you graph it, the graph will collapse the right side of your desk from the sheer weight of the high end scores. You still have to stand out among that vast population.</p>
<p>A pat on the back is deserved. The useful pointer, however, is for the OP to dazzle the Andover admission office in other ways.</p>
<p>Agreed! And this is a good lesson for these kids to learn before they apply to colleges with only stellar SATs scores in their hands!!</p>
<p>HeWasNumber1,</p>
<p>It may seem that the replies you are getting are not very encouraging. It has been a long year with many students posting "chances" threads with very similar statistics. There comes a point of exhaustion with these questions, especially after the train has left the station (and the UPS truck has driven by your house 3 or 4 times).</p>
<p>If you haven't gotten the fat envelope by now, expect a thin one any day.</p>
<p>It is not a poor reflection on you as nobody can score in the 110th percentile. </p>
<p>The simple statistics say that only 10% of the students score in the 90th percentile and above. That 10% may sound like a small number, but the top 10 schools could fill all their slots with the top 10% and leave even more students with rejection and waitlist letters. </p>
<p>There are a couple of hundred schools that use the SSAT for admissions with tens of thousands of incoming students every year. From that you can conclude that well over 1000 students get in the 90th percentile.</p>
<p>As much as you want to think that your test scores are unique, they are quite common as this is a great country with a great many intellegent kids who want a great education.</p>
<p>And all you can do is the best that you can exploring every possiblity for self-improvement around you and try to keep a positive outlook on life. You have already proven that you have the intellegence to be successful. Just go and do it your own way.</p>
<p>when the adcom sees 99%.....something lights on in thier heads and they sometimes make wierd decisions....</p>
<p>This is along the lines of all the kids who aced their SAT's last year who were rejected by Harvard. I don't know about all these high, high numbers or maybe a lot has changed in the past 4 years, but my older son's best friend got admitted to Andover, Exeter and Deerfield with 90-95's on his SSAT's and no legacy. Big fa $$, too. It's a lot more than just the SSAT's; this kid was an excellent student and a very, very interesting person. I'm sure his interviews and essays were awesome.</p>
<p>Yes, but a 90-95% is still pretty darn good, do you really think that same "very interesting person" would have been admitted with a 60% SSAT? The point is the top tier schools expect good SSAT scores because, let's face it, the work is hard at these schools and these tests give some type of measurement of future success. So get those good test scores AND be involved in other activities and you have a better CHANCE to be admitted.</p>
<p>On ssat scores, I've concluded that they don't matter if they are in the range of accepted students at a school. A 99% is within range at the most competitive schools. So is a 94%. When the scores are significantly above or below the typical range, that is when ssat scores become an important factor.</p>
<p>If you don't have a hook of any kind then scoring in the 98%-99% range is simply your ticket into serious consideration by the adcom.</p>
<p>SSAT is the most important, while also the least important at the same time.
You need to pass a certain threshold to get yourself in the running, but once you are in the running SSAT means nothing</p>
<p>The passion to school is also very important and your personality... just show how special you are!</p>
<p>My d has been accepted to Andover w/ a 68% SSAT! She is a very good student, well rounded, artistic, athletic, a very talented writer, she is living proof that SSAT scores are not the end all, the adcom definately considered the whole package with her, and how much she will be involved w/in the school community if she decides on Andover for September.</p>