Hi ! My SAT is a 1310 composite (710 ERW and 600 Math). I’m planning on applying ED2 and I’m wondering if I should even submit my scores at all. I’m worried that they’ll bring down my application (3.5 unw gpa, 4.4 weighted) because while I’m on the high end of their ERW score range I’m 30 points lower than they’re average in math.
Should I send in the score anyway? Am I overthinking it?
Called the admissions office today and they said to only send it in if it strengthens my application which made me even more stressed. Thanks for your help!
I probably wouldn’t send it. From everything I’ve seen, colleges are standing by their assertion that test optional won’t hurt an applicant. You have a solid GPA and likely good ECs and letters of recommendation. Because the score is lower than their average, I don’t think it strengthens your application. Good luck to you! My D is applying to Moho as well.
I wouldn’t send. S21 sent a 31 to Rice and I think it hurt him.
The only way that you should send this is if you’re applying from a high school that is known to have very low academic standards - non-magnet inner city, or underfunded rural. If that were the case, your pretty good SAT (and that English score is nothing to be ashamed of) would confirm that you are prepared to succeed academically. But if you’re coming from a good high school with high standards, where they can expect that a student who’s gotten grades like yours would probably have gotten a high SAT score, had they been able to take one, then don’t send it.
Average sat at my high school is 1180. Does that make a difference ?
Yes. 50th percentile for SAT is about 1050-1060. So your high school’s average SAT being 1180, is almost 75th percentile. That says that your high school is a very good one. For instance, I just checked the average SAT score at the highest rated suburban high school in my area, and at the highest rated one in the state, and their averages were both BELOW 1180. So I would not send that score, unless there is something about you that would make them think that you would have gotten a score lower than the one you did. For instance, if you were a recruited athlete with mediocre grades, that score would say, “Oh great! He has the aptitude to do the work at our college, while he plays football/basketball/shuffleboard.” But I’m assuming that you don’t have a “hook” that might make them surprised that your SAT was as good as it was. Since it won’t help you, and since you have good grades from a competitive high school, I don’t think you should send it.
That’s enormously helpful thanks so much