Total Sat score percentile?

Test Preparation
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<p>I got a 1990 on my last SAT score and though it gives me state and national percentiles for each individual subject, I can't find the percentile for the total score. Is there a way to find out because I tried searching in collegeboard, but I can't find it. Any help will be grateful thanks.</p>

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<p>It’s 93rd percentile nationally. You did nicely.
Don’t know about state.</p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_composite_cr_m_w.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;

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<p>Why do top colleges deny students who score 1930 and take students with 2000+?</p>

<p>Someone with a 1930 is superior than 90% of the test takers.</p>

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<p>Because a 2000 is better than a 1930?
Pretty obvious…</p>

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<p>But that still shouldn’t excuse them from rejecting a person with lower than an epitome score. </p>

<p>Clearly, 1930 is still a strong and respectable score.</p>

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<p>^ respectable yes. but for certain colleges it is out of range.</p>

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<p>^ I asked why.</p>

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<p>where would a 2110 stand on the national percentile?</p>

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<p>97th percentile.</p>

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<p>oh wow not bad…still a mediocore score i guess for the college I want to attend</p>

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<p>It’s out of range because even 1% of students is still equal to thousands and thousands of kids.
It may be 90th percentile but that doesn’t make it a good score, it just means a large amount of teenagers can’t do 7th grade level math (before you jump, let me explain that the math section of the SAT is meant to test middle school level math. The section is out of 800 points and the lowest score you can get is a 200, so the median is 500, 74% of kids score a 600 or lower which would still be a D in school.)
Although a 1930 is superior to 90% of kids, that does not indicate proficiency/ a high amount of reason and logic, it just shows that they have more of these than most Americans. Being more rational and logical than those around you does not correlate to how much rationality and logic you have, so the percentile of a score is not an accurate assessment of a student because of the breadth of students tested.</p>

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<p>But at least it still tells the adcoms that you’re better than the majority of the students. And they want the best.</p>

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<p>For the link given, I’m just curious about how they define 99th percentile and 99+th percentile</p>

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<p>99+ is over 99.5</p>

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<p>I don’t think the difference will be any distinct to the admission commitees sitting at the desk in the colleges. Both scores are near as strong as they are already.</p>