<p>quick question, my friend is freaking out over here. what's the difference between a 790 and an 800 on math 2c in terms of what colleges see on the app? how much more would an 800 factor in compared to a 790?</p>
<p>10% of kids who take it get 800s.
13% get 790 OR 800.</p>
<p>Whatever floats your boat.</p>
<p>yeah I have the same question. How much better is an 800?</p>
<p>It wouldn't matter. 10 points can't help or hurt in the college proccess.</p>
<p>I disagree a little. It depends upon where your friend will apply. Math-intensive schools might see anything less than 800 on the IIC as an indicator that there are some deficiencies in a person's pre-cal background because making less than an 800 indicates that the person missed more than 7 questions out of 50 on a pretty easy test. However, it definitely won't matter if your friend doesn't apply to places like MIT.</p>
<p>Lola-cho, I think that you are incorrect. The average score for mit is not an 800. The average is quite below 800 (not exactly sure, but I think it was around 755 last year). A difference so small would not make a difference! Standardize tests do not have as much effect on admissions as gpa or extra ciriculars do. I talked to someone about college admissions (she works at georgia tech) and she said that THE most important thing was ec's, then gpa, then sat/act ect. If your friend has a relitivly high grade in pre-calc, then they won't think anything of it (and if you missed 7 questions, you would generally get a 780, that was the college board official sat II book scale).</p>
<p>wow 10% of the ppl taking sats get 800? that's actually quite alot!</p>
<p>800 may mean a raw score of 43 or more; but 790 means your score is definitely less than 43. So it is a little different.</p>
<p>yeh but 10% is because every math/science genius wiz is taking the test, and there are many many many of them, especially when compared to people who take other SAT II's like language.</p>
<p>actually, the math iic is not that hard. I never understood why sat and sat ii math is always so simple. </p>
<p>I always wanted them to make the curve harsher because that is the only way students can distinguish themselves.</p>
<p>totally agree agrophobic! well.. not the last bit, cos that sounds a bit cocky.. jk! but wow.. didn't know the may sat results came out already! so happy with my score, after all those depressing math reuslts from the barron's prep book!</p>
<p>Sorry if I came off as cocky, but the reason why I want the math SAT and SAT II to be harder is because it seems to me(and others) that it is much easier to score a 800 on them than on, say, the science subject tests. So I don't think its fair that for people good at math we don't have a test that can seperate us from the rest, while for people good at say, science, do have a hard test that can set them off from the rest.</p>
<p>I dunno, just my opinion on this.</p>
<p>You can safely say it makes no difference at all, as MIT's 25-75 in SATII Math is 740-800.
I am somewhat of a hypocrite though, because I am retaking a 760 SAT IIC.</p>
<p>Agrophobic, Jenny, you distinguish yourself in mathematics not by doing well on the SAT II Math IIC, but doing well on the AMC and similar competitions. Doing well on SAT I/II math is somewhat of a given, if you want to be considered even good at math.</p>
<p>stix, i doubt ECs are more important, especially at Georgia tech. According to PR's web site, Gtech rates GPA as very important, and SATs and ECs as important. For most schools, it goes GPA, SATs, ECs. Maybe for some LACs it would be GPA, ECs, SATs, or ECs, GPA, SATs (some dont even require it). Any techie school would take a math genius (say he got far in math competition) over a community leader with a lower math score.</p>
<p>Yeah, AMC and then AIME scores are way more important than SAT I math scores, especially considering the level of difficulty on said exams. I only got a 670 math on the SAT, but scored a 117 on the AMC 12 and qualified for the AIME. Unfortunately I died on the AIME; 0 right. yay!!!</p>
<p>wow 670 math SAT and 117 on AMC. I bet thats rare. I got 800 math SAT I and a 98.5 on the AMC, did about 14-15 questions right after test. 117 is awesome.</p>
<p>madskier, I didnt say it was more important, only that if you want to show talent in math, you do so by performing well on the AMC, not SATs.</p>
<p>I got a 99.5 AMC(I thought you had to answer 15 not 12 so I screwed that up) and 800Math</p>
<p>Well, I probably should have mentioned that I was without the assistance of a calculator while taking my SAT math. But I'm really not that good at basic math. I hate to say it, but the reason I got such a "good" score was my luck on the AMC. Plus I should add that I made a mistake on my score. That 117 was for amc 10, whereas I scored a 108 on the AMC 12. I figured out 14 of the questions with ease, 4 of them I guessed well on.</p>
<p>And yes, I did do horribly on the AIME. That was probably the longest 3 hours of my life. And all for a fat 0</p>
<p>(sighing as I hold the results in front of me...)</p>