<p>I personally got a 1480 out of 2400, and I know that's low, but I see people getting 1900-2000 and they are saying THATS low. So what is low? I know it depends on colleges, but for a top tier college (like UC's and Ivies) what is considered high? Idk I'm just shocked that people who score higher than me considered their scores low.</p>
<p>The national average on the SAT is around 1500/2400.</p>
<p>Top tier colleges generally have an average SAT of 2250 and up, but usually your race and gender can make a difference as well. If you’re Asian, for instance, you need 2300+ to stand a chance at many top tier colleges.</p>
<p>Many of the people who flock to College Confidential are the kinds of people who really want to get into more-selective-than-average colleges, so although 1900-2000 isn’t really low compared to the rest of the nation, it’s lower than their standards and lower than the average of the colleges they WANT to get into. </p>
<p>It’s a matter of perspective, really.</p>
<p>2300+ is normal for ivies.</p>
<p>The UC’s offer a wide range of score brackets. You’ve got Merced whose middle range runs from 1340-1680. Your score is in range for that particular UC. Then you have Berkeley that whose middle is 1820-2230. Your score would be low for Berkeley. Of course, all the other schools land in between so it all depends on what schools you are looking at. </p>
<p>1900-2000 are high scores for most of the schools in the country. It means those people have outscored about 90 percent of everyone in the nation who tested. It’s only the relatively small number of highly selective schools for which they would be low. Just happens lots of people on these boards seem to be going for those particular schools.</p>
<p>I feel like, as you score higher, then what’s considered “low” becomes higher. </p>
<p>It also depends on how you think you can do. I went into the SAT thinking I could score 2100+ with no studying. I scored a 1980, so I thought the 1980 was so low. Then, I studied, and the second time I took it, I scored a 2240. After that, I felt like a 2100 was low. And after scoring a 2330, I felt like a 2200 was low… haha.</p>
<p>High and low are only used as terms to describe in relation to something. A 1000 would seem very high to someone who scored a 500, for example. It’s all relative.</p>
<p>Different schools have different sorts of scores they want to see, but that’s about all that greatly matters.</p>
<p>On the website where you can view your scores, they also give you the percentile in which you fall, which gives a much better comparative measure of your success at the test.</p>