<p>if you got a really good score on the ssat's (say 790, 790, 730) and you applied, what do you think the acceptancessuggestions are? for the ivy's, with the SAT's, it's 75% acceptance rate for someone with a perfect score on the SAT's (2400)..which is pretty good. what other factors would be most important for someone with a top, top score?</p>
<p>W00PSS I MEANt to quotes that. My computer is so messed up! anyones, I was just curious. What about at lower-tier schools?</p>
<p>I think a sex offender conviction is the biggest determining factor in BS applications. Hands down. Even more significant than perfect SSAT scores.</p>
<p>But I'm being negative. I think a Nobel Prize...or even a mere Pulitzer Prize has more impact than some stupid SSAT score.</p>
<p>In fact, I could sit here all day and come up with things that would make someone's SSAT scores all but irrelevant to an Admission Committee at a top prep school.</p>
<p>Picking your nose and wiping it on the Ad Com's upholstered chair during your interview: forget what those SSAT scores say.</p>
<p>A two-night sold out solo engagement at Royal Albert Hall playing your personally handcrafted kazoozlephone: damn the SSATs, full speed ahead!</p>
<p>So, you see, my point is...well, I think I made it. If not, I don't think those SSAT scores will mean much.</p>
<p>well ya. I was just going over chances threads and i saw one guy who had those w/ other stats and I was wondeirng how they could turn that down. a school's prestige depends on their academics. We know that.. if you don't, look it up. It's a pretty well known fact here on college confidentiial.. that doesnt mean other facts arent taken into place, but i just wanted to know how many kids with these amazing scores are turned down. they want to boost that average ssat percentile to get up to the top. You know it, they now it, they deny it. It's true. But I was just wondering what facts would cause them to deny an applicant with great scores like that. Because theyre not a minority? Because they're not the captain of the football team? Because they're not the best celloist in New Jersey or because they're not a dog-sleeder from aLaska? ..cmon, those are the exceptions. those are who they lower the ssat rates for..for a relatively normal kid w/ great requiremenrs (reccomendatioms, grades, scores, good extracurrics, good intervoiews, creatirve essays), how many of those kids are turned down? i just hav this feeling that they're fibbing about this whole diversity thing. when im on facebook, looking at friends profiles at prestigious schools, .. i mean, people arent really diverse. yes, there are some minorities (no native americans, few hispanics, lots of asians, and a good amount of black kdis), but, to be honest, theyre still not diverse.. a lot of the blak kids are really rich and a lot of thehispanics are too...like, kids of statesmen in south america and nigera,,, .. and they can get away w this and thats fine, i'm not complaining. i was just wondering how crucial "contricuting ot comunity" is.... inother ways than race/jock/state/class/amazing, rare talent (bazooka champion).. ?</p>
<p>If your ssat scores are within the range of accepted students and everything else is great (grades, recommendations, sports, ec's etc.), it puts your application in the running. At the most competitive schools, a 99% is in the range of accepted students. I think ssat scores become an important factor if they are significantly higher or lower than the typical range. </p>
<p>There are far more qualified applicants than there are places for them at the most competitive schools. People don't tend to apply unless they believe they can be accepted. As a result, the applicant pool is very competitive and very different than a representative sample of the general population.</p>
<p>"I think a sex offender conviction is the biggest determining factor in BS applications. Hands down. Even more significant than perfect SSAT scores".</p>
<p>"But I'm being negative. I think a Nobel Prize...or even a mere Pulitzer Prize has more impact than some stupid SSAT score".</p>
<p>D'yer,</p>
<p>Wow. Keep up the posts. Very funny and often insightful when you look past the ridiculousness, and I might add a major reason to visit the site. Good times.</p>
<p>Burb Parent,</p>
<p>I should compliment you as well. Your info. has proved invaluable the last couple years. Thanks.</p>
<p>Thanks, Blue. I'm actually most proud of my nose-picking thing.</p>
<p>Hmmmm....that doesn't sound quite right, but I think you get my drift.</p>
<p>Thanks Blueliner! I decided to pass along what I learned last year going through the process. There isn't that much information available to people who do not have a boarding tradition in their families or whose kids do not go to a school that prepares them for prep secondary schools. </p>
<p>On the ssat, I would like to add that I think applicants with all 3 tests at 99% and all other applicant components very good to stellar, have an advantage. This is because many schools like to point to how many National Merit Scholars and finalists they have, and straight 99%s bode well for a qualifying PSAT. Of course, it also bodes well for academic success as well. I am basing my conclusion on just one case last year. An applicant with straight 99s, what must have had a stellar application, and who came from an underrepresented state, received what sounded like a likely letter from Choate. I think he ended up at Andover. </p>
<p>Blueliner -- Good luck with acceptances this year!</p>
<p>Burb Parent, I hope you are right, my son has 3 99% and straight As, but we are still keeping our fingers and toes crossed. Admissions can be a very fickle thing. Our older son did very well on the SSATs 2 99% and a 97% and he is a National Merit Finalist, so you may be right about the scores and the correlation to the PSATs.
Waiting for prep school admissions AND college admissions is turning me gray!</p>