<p>^^^^ do they differentiate between US-Asian and Canadian-Asian?</p>
<p>a 2200 is 99%</p>
<p>a 2300 is 99%</p>
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<p>Anyway, retake only if you are sure you will improve. My friend retook a 2150, going for a 2200, he ended up getting a 2040.</p>
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<p>2300-2400 - 28.1%
2100-2290 - 10.6%</p>
<p>Sure, one can claim some correlation rather than causation, but I think that the difference is too significant to solely be attributed to other factors. Plus, unfortunately, the OP does have to compete against his own ethnicity.</p>
<p>Why is everyone underestimating the difference 100 pts can make? That’s is a HUGE boost in admissions. There’s not much comparison between a 2300 and 2200.</p>
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<p>A 2300 is closer to 99.5 percentile. If you can do better than an additional .5% of the applicant pool, your chances go higher.</p>
<p>Besides, it’s not like the OP is going to turn into a robot just by retaking the test (and nor will he/she develop some sort of hook by not retaking it). If you have the opportunity to vastly improve your admissions chances by doing a little work (15-30 min/day should suffice), why wouldn’t you take that?</p>
<p>Arnt those stats from Princeton Superscored SATs? Or are they single sitting? I thought those were superscored because Princeton wants to kinda “inflate” the scores to make them seem higher</p>
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<p>The percents just mean that percent of applicants with a score in that range got accepted…it does not mean that you will vastly improve your chances. For example, 28.1% of people who scored in the 2300-2400 range got accepted, which is a but higher than people who scored int he 2100-2290 range; but that is expected, because fewer applicants have score in that range.</p>
<p>So lets say for simplicity purposes that 100 people who had a score in the 2300-2400 score range applied…that means 28 people were accepted from this group. If there were 264 people who had a score in the 2100-2290 score range, 10.9% of that is still 28 people.</p>
<p>So as you can see, this does not mean that admissions will pick more people from the higher score group.</p>
<p>I would just work on the rest of my application.</p>
<p>oh geez. i totally dig you, man.
but think about it: if you’re asking yourself if it’s rediculous to retake it, then your gut feeling is probably right.
make a list of the pros and cons, and decide FOR YOURSELF whether you want to retake it. your parents can’t force you to retake it if you don’t feel like it.</p>
<p>Gaoez, that makes no sense. Of course, if an applicant puts himself/herself among a smaller tier of applicants, he/she will have better odds. What exactly are you trying to argue? Percentage IS the chance one has. Quantity has nothing to do with this and I never argued that it did.</p>
<p>Despite what everyone might think, a 2300 is in an entirely league from 2200. The 100 point difference cannot be underestimated.</p>