SAT Percentiles - Surprising

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<p>Per Old New
cent SAT SAT
ile</p>

<p>99+ ≥1540 ≥2280
99 ≥1480 ≥2200
98 ≥1450 ≥2140
95 ≥1380 ≥2040
89 ≥1300 ≥1920
82 ≥1230 ≥1810
72 ≥1160 ≥1700
61 ≥1090 ≥1600
50 ≥1030 Figures unavailable.
40 ≥980
30 ≥920
20 ≥850
10 ≥760
0 ≥400 ≥600</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Raw_scores.2C_scaled_scores_and_percentiles%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Raw_scores.2C_scaled_scores_and_percentiles&lt;/a>
I just found this table on wikipedia. woooww......its really surprising to me.
if a 2200 is 99th percentile, why does anyone care about getting 2250 or 2300 ?
i don't get it</p>

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<p>Well because at competitive schools, their SAT ranges are above average.</p>

<p>For example, I'm applying to Penn, and 750 CR, 780 M, and 750 W (2280 total) are what you need to place above 75% of accepted students.</p>

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<p>because people don't care as much about getting into the 99th percentile as much as being as close to 2400 as possible.</p>

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<p>I'm agreeing with with<em>one</em>voice...for competitive schools, scoring "merely" 99th percentile often isn't top 25% of accepted students...therefore, people strive to achieve perfection</p>

<p>btw...I'm applying to Penn too..what are your scores?</p>