<p>Middlesex School is my #1 choice</p>
<p>Verbal: 90%
Reading: 84%
Math: 63%
Total: 83%</p>
<p>I am taking them again on 1-10-09. The 63 was from me omitting 12 questions in one section, because I lost track of time...</p>
<p>I am a stellar mathematical student. I have the highest average in my grade with 102.03. If I test accordingly will my first test hurt me?</p>
<p>Verbal: 93%
Reading: 84%
Math: 82%
Total: 90%</p>
<p>The average SSAT score for admitted Middlesex students is a 86%</p>
<p>What do you all think. If I score a 90 will my 83 get disregarded</p>
<p>It won't help you, but I don't think it'll hurt you, either. I think it shows them that you have the ability to improve and that you can tell when you can do better (achieving your full potential! hah, boy do i sound corny)</p>
<p>I don't think it'll get disregarded, but I don't think it'll hurt you. This is just my opinion, though, the adcom's opinion could be completely different!</p>
<p>By the way: Standardized tests don't mean that much to these tests. Of course, you SHOULD do well to a certain level (like improving that 63%..) but they look at your ECs and essays more. After all, if they see a great SSAT score, they'll go, "so they're proficient academically.. what do they have to offer to _____ school?"</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks!
I agree. improvement can be a positive factor. As long as I can show them my full potential.</p>
<p>It will not hurt you if you didn't submit. You can take the test as many times as you want, submit the score you satisfied with.</p>
<p>Schools consider the best scores of all of the scores you submit to them. They also only see the score reports that you direct the test service to send. Your test and/or score history will NOT be sent. You have control over which reports are sent to which schools.</p>
<p>If you submit scores from more than one test date, for example Math 63 and Math 87, the school will consider your math at an 87.</p>
<p>Oh really that is great because I tested again and felt very confident about the math portion. So you are saying the schools take the highest score in each portion when they consider your application. Do all schools do this?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I don't know about every school since it is not a policy usually publicized by schools, but it is the usual answer given by schools. They all want to see an applicant's best performance. So, if you send scores from two test dates, they will consider your best of each of the three subjects.</p>
<p>The admission officers only see your highest scores. So no matter how low you scored on that first test the will only see the higher one (which is the second one for you). But unless you have a %97+ or %80- they won’t even worry about them. They really look at you EC’s, essays, interviews, and grades a little bit.</p>
<p>Yah… I my new scores were 87%. I scored an 86% in math! When you combine my sections I have</p>
<p>V:90
R:84
M:86
T: 90 or 91</p>
<p>I have a question about the percentages quoted by everyone when they talk about the SSAT. I saw on my son’s result report that there were percentages compared to other students taking the SSAT’s and also further down on the report, there were percentages compared to all eighth graders in the U.S. His results compared to other SSAT takers were tragic, but compared to all U.S. eighth graders, were quite good. So which ones does everyone talk about routinely?</p>
<p>Most are referring to SSAT percentiles (not national). It’s the SSAT percentiles that the schools use. The SSAT is generally only taken by the brightest students, so there is often a huge difference. 38%tile ssat-wise, could still be 98%tile nationally because of the caliber of ssat takers.</p>
<p>We’re talking about SSAT percentiles, like the actual ones against other test-takers.</p>
<p>National percentiles are the ones that are compared to all 8th graders.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, his SSAT (not national) score probably wasn’t THAT bad. It’s just the CC has the tendency to make everybody feel inferior, due to all the 99th-percentilers. They seem really common here, but worry not, they’re rare in real life!</p>
<p>Thank you neatoburrito and DiveAlive. Well, yeah, the scores were pretty darn bad. Okay, so, we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start all over again.</p>
<p>How do you decide if you send the scores into the school or not? Do you see your scores before they send it into the school? I’m confused.</p>
<p>You can sign up for an option that costs a little extra but can be worth the cost - electronic score reporting. SSAT will report your scores to you via email and you can then decide whether or not you want to send in the scores yet.</p>
<p>Ok, do you select that when you sign up for the test?</p>
<p>Yes, when you create your online account. What you have to keep in mind for when you take the test for the first time, however, is that if you take the SSAT multiple times, the scores that will be reported to your schools will be super scores from all the times you took the test. This means that your percentiles will be averaged. So, if you scored in the 70th percentile the first time you took the test and scored in the 90th percentile the second time, the score reported to your scores will be 80th percentile - you won’t choose which scores to send to your schools.</p>
<p>hhtp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/552200-ssat-weakness.html</p>
<p>This thread says that you can take several test and only send in the score of your choice with the Web Service Bundle. It says that at the initial registration, you don’t check any school codes. And then at the test not to check any codes. But when you get the results on your emial, you will add the codes on your account and then it will send it directly to the school.</p>
<p>Just copy and paste the URL address above into your address bar.</p>
<p>I am not actually too familiar with the web service bundle - I didn’t use it and took the SSAT only once. However, what I have heard on most other threads is that when students have taken the SSAT multiple times, their scores are averaged. I don’t know if these students used the web service bundle, though.</p>
<p>Maybe someone else is a little more familiar with the web service bundle?</p>