<p>Old SAT perfect scores, before the blunting of the content and truncation of the score scale, were extremely rare, maybe 20-30 in the world per year. More than 40-50 percent admission for those. Today, if you have a 1600, and go beyond that with a hypothetical 850 on the math using competition results, or on the verbal with mastery of foreign languages, a high score on the national Latin exam or a national ranking in Scrabble tournaments — you are in at most of the top 10 schools absent grades below the top decile. That level of testing is rare.</p>