<p>This thread should be helpful to all prep school candidates. Please list scores and percentiles for total test as well as sections. Thank you.</p>
<p>Math 752 87%
Verbal 800 99%
Reading 782 96%</p>
<p>Total 2340 99%
I’m so pumped.</p>
<p>I am an A/O and if you applied to my school, now I know who each and every one of you are.</p>
<p>well, with a name like EnemyOfTheSun, how can you not be an educational profesionnal?
Anyways, lets get back on track.</p>
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<p>How would this be helpful? Even if you could establish that SSAT scores correlate in some meaningful fashion with admissions results (and I don’t believe you could), the random sampling you would get from responses to this thread would not be sufficient to show anything.</p>
<p>What we’ve already seen in similar threads is that some of you get such high scores that everyone else is jealous . . . and some of you don’t. So please explain how this thread would be “helpful.”</p>
<p>Please also look up the English idiom, “beating a dead horse.”</p>
<p>Well, “dodgersmom,” it could be helpful for future candidates to know what score correlates to what percentile. Quite simply, the CC community is wide-ranging and full of motivated kids, incidentally the same kids who will probably be the toughest competitions at prep schools. I know that I looked at similar threads to understand what score I needed to get in order to obtain a good percentile. You feel a lot of anxiety going into test day, especially when the score needed for x percentile is constantly fluctuating.</p>
<p>Additionally, there is no reason for jealousy. If you are insinuating that people may be jealous of my score, then I feel that I must say that I have a 3.5 GPA, and there are certainly people with lower test scores and better GPAs. I studied hard for the test, and am shocked and happy with my score.</p>
<p>With your highfalutin quote references, I can see that you are trying to say that posting scores is pointless. However, as I mentioned earlier, it is not. Reason 1: it helps people who have taken the test get a sense for competition. Reason 2: it helps future candidates understand the relationship between scores and percentiles.</p>
<p>Additionally, there is no need to make snarky comments on a thread where your opinion was not solicited. I’m not trying to insult anybody, and don’t need your criticism.</p>
<p>By the way, GO GIANTS. Actually, I probably shouldn’t say that, or you might smash my head open on the pavement like your cohorts did to Bryan Stow.</p>
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<p>Hi there, if you are an A/O, maybe you could answer my question. My kids are already at a prep school and we are curious about something. What is the average score that a 10th grader would get when they take the SSAT? A bunch of them took the test as 8th graders, so we know what their middle school peers got. We know that all 10th graders are compared to other 10th graders, BUT…do you think the 10th graders that take the SSAT are cream of the crop, like the 8th graders tend to be? Do you understand my question? Basically, what is the level of 10th graders taking the SSAT? Thank you</p>
<p>Enemy of the sun isn’t an AO. Just check previous posts, he/she wasn’t being serious.</p>
<p>Well, my point was that this thread doesn’t have a point, as dodgersmom explains. And it might actually put you at risk if an A/O lurks on the forum.</p>
<p>Score, percentage without grade is not that meaningful.</p>
<p>Actually percentage is meaningful because getting a 2200 as an 8th grader is different than getting that as an 11th. The 8th grader might be in the 97 percentile with that score while an 11th grader might be in the 85 percentile. Using percentile is more helpful because then you do not have to specify your grade level.</p>
<p>By “grade,” I think he meant the GPA.</p>
<p>Additionally, there is no need to make snarky comments on a thread where your opinion was not solicited. I’m not trying to insult anybody, and don’t need your criticism.</p>
<p>I agree that Dodgersmom needs to be less snarky- she can get her point across more with more civility</p>
<p>I agree, perrier2468. I’ve made this point on a couple of other threads recently, hoping to appeal to two of our more prolific parent posters, in particular – who really should tone it down and take greater care in phrasing the gratuitously “helpful” posts they’re directing at children on this board. Up with civility, down with snark and nasty. This is a testy and vulnerable time for many.</p>