Should I retake the SAT? 2330

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<p>How, then, do you explain the strong correlations between SAT scores and college success and IQ scores?</p>

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<p>Success in college doesnt depend upon your SAT scores. I have a friend at cornell right now who got 1900 on her SAT and she’s doing really well. I have a similar SAT score and i did summer programs at harvard and penn (I took college-level classes and there were also grad students at the classes) and achieved A’s in them.
SATs are certainly a very weak measure of performance in college.</p>

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<p>You are using personal and limited anecdotes to refute nationwide studies.</p>

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<p>@ ivyambition: I’d suggest that you read the following article. </p>

<p>[Why</a> America Needs the SAT](<a href=“http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/satlogic.htm]Why”>http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/satlogic.htm)</p>

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<p>also, even the college board says that the SAT is not a measure of intelligence, it only measures how good you are at math and english. It says so at the back of The Official SAT Study Guide, the recent version.</p>

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<p>The College Board is just trying to be PC.</p>

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<p>ivyambition, Please also check out <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/754698-iq-elite.html?highlight=christopher+langan#post1062995000[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/754698-iq-elite.html?highlight=christopher+langan#post1062995000&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^ LOL @ silverturtle’s answer. :smiley: But seriously, read that article. It will give you some insights on why the SAT is actually absolutely necessary.</p>

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<p>To answer the OP, I do not think it is worth your time to retake the SAT with such an excellent score. Work on other aspects of your application.</p>

<p>I personally dislike the SAT’s presentation, but I think its merits are in giving some measure of abilities between those from countless different backgrounds and upbringings.</p>

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<p>What do you mean?</p>

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<p>If you score better, you will have a higher chance at top schools. Period.</p>

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<p>Just out of curiosity, could someone point me in the direction of a study that measures the correlation between college success and SAT scores?</p>

<p>IMO, I’m not convinced the SAT can be said to measure intelligence well. Firstly, you’d have to accept that IQ tests measure intelligence to a high degree of precision, which is debatable. Then you’d also have to explain how SAT scores often rise substantially from one year to the next or after prepping a lot, while IQ scores and intelligence in general is supposed to stay constant throughout a person’s life. </p>

<p>And, of course, the actual content of the test. Is knowing what the graph of a parabola looks like indicative of intelligence? Or the definition the word “hubris”?</p>

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<p>Back to the OP:</p>

<p>In 2008 a 2330 was in the top 3118 students in the country.</p>

<p>For some perspective in that rarified part of the 99th percentile . . .if all those people who scored 2330 and above went just to Harvard and Stanford, that would leave every freshman slot open at every other college in the country.</p>

<p>That said, what are your safeties, because . . .
1-Princeton rejects about 3/4 of students with SATs 2300 - 2400
2-Brown rejected about 3/4 of students who had perfect scores on any one section of their SATs
3- 14% of Penn’s incoming class was made up of children of alums
4- Yale accepted 9% of its 22,817 applicants</p>

<p>Take the danged SAT again if you want to . . . but don’t think that increasing your score will significantly affect your application . . . because there is no way for anyone to tell why all those Ivy applicants were rejected in spite of their great SATs.</p>

<p>The test themselves are accurate to +/- ~30 points . . and the schools you will be applying to know that the individual scores we obsess about are that accurate, and no more. And . . . scores can go down when you retake ,too :-)</p>

<p>I think you can be done if you wish . . . so celebrate!!!</p>

<p>Good luck, and love thy safeties!!!</p>

<p>Kei</p>

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<p>RAlec114 said: “If you score better, you will have a higher chance at top schools. Period.”</p>

<p>Statistically,there is no difference between a 2310 and 2340. Period.</p>

<p>Kei</p>

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<p>What are you talking about? The higher the score, the better.</p>

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<p>^ He/she’s probably talking about the score range, or the margin of error for these scores. They are reported along with the actual score itself. On SAT II subject tests, for example, a score of 700 would fall in the 670-730 score range, indicating that the student has the same ability as a person who got a 730.</p>

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<p>That is not what the score range means. If this were true, 640 would be the same as 670, which would be same as 700, which in turn would be the same as 730, and so on; eventually, all scores could be proven to be the same. Such is illogical. The higher the score, the higher the likely ability and the higher one’s chances at admittance.</p>

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<p>I think Kei meant that a 30 composite point difference at the higher end of the test means little since the scores are so close to perfect anyway.</p>

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<p>I agree that the difference is minor, even negligible in most situations; Kei, however, illogically asserted that “there is no difference.”</p>

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<p>@ silverturtle: Looking back on that post, I didn’t phrase it the right way. What the score range means is that there is a certain “margin of error” for each score, indicating that the student could have done better as much as up to 30 points on a given testing day. </p>

<p>…not sure if that still makes sense, but oh well lol</p>