<p>You do not need a 2300+ for HYPSM. I know multiple kids without those scores into those schools.</p>
<p>2000-Decent
2100-Nice
2200-Good
2300-Wow </p>
<p>I want a 2250.</p>
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<p>But a 2300+ certainly doesn’t hurt.</p>
<p>Personal standards:</p>
<p><2350: failing
2350-2390: decent
2400: good</p>
<p>Standards for others:</p>
<p><2200: meh
2200-2290: decent
2300-2340: pretty good
2350-2400: good</p>
<p>(Note: most of my good friends/people I tend to hang around with are as smart or smarter than me, and I got a 2360. Perceptions may be rather warped.)</p>
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<p>That probably is why your standards are high, even by CC standards. Do you go to a school that’s well-known for its academics?</p>
<p>2200+ is good by me.</p>
<p>Hm, I always though 2250+ would be really good… but then I retook a 2270 because I wanted a 2300+. And now I kind of wish I could’ve gotten a 2400 in one sitting.</p>
<p>Haha, never satisfied/there is no good SAT score?</p>
<p>(Generally though, 2250+ seems good to me for other people, providing that each section is at least 700+.)</p>
<p>For me, 2200 is acceptable, but I wouldn’t be very happy with it…
I’d say a 2300+ is good.</p>
<p>Those who feel as though a 2300+ is required to even have a chance at an Ivy or to be Ivy material is ignorant. I know many people attending Yale who barely broke the 2000+ mark and they’re performing phenomenally in their courses.</p>
<p>2350+
(Anything less than that would be below the 75th percentile of my dream colleges.)</p>
<p>Many of my friends tell me my standards are insane but I have a 2040 and I’m depressed. A good score for me would be 2200+ which I hope to achieve on Oct 9</p>
<p>It’s interesting how some people are impressed by a 2000+, while others think nothing of a 2300.</p>
<p>Anyone in the top 4-5% of American high schoolers are impressive, no matter what your standards are.</p>
<p>I’d say anything in the 2000s is respectable, although anything that would be graded in class as an A is even better. i.e. 2160+</p>
<p>Wow this thread kills my hopes and dreams. 
I want to go to an ivy, and I have a legacy, but I dont know if I can get 2200+. Is 1880 for a 7th grader good? 
I took the SAT last May, but I’m an 8th grader now.</p>
<p>Dude, chill. You have 3+ years to get ready. A lot of people (me included) don’t even do any studying until the end of, or even the summer after junior year. You haven’t even started geometry or trig yet, so a little practice coupled with what you learn in class and you should be fine.</p>
<p>Equal to or greater than 2400.</p>
<p>^^Haha thanks that’s good to know. It just worries me sometimes when all I see on CC are people who don’t get into HPY with 2350 for the SAT…</p>
<p>Lol @Sandwich Girl. Yeah I used to think 2000+ was very good, then my thinking changed to 2200+ is good, then it changed to 2250+ is good, then when I realized over 50% of my class was getting like 2300+ and 9 people in my grade got 2400s I was like ***sauce I need 2300+. </p>
<p>I got a 2320 so this thread is going to do wonders for my ego lol.</p>
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Yes, very. Quit stressing.</p>
<p>And although this whole debate is pretty interesting (seeing a very wide range of opinions), I am a member of the SAT-doesn’t-prove-a-thing school of thought. The SAT is described as something that gauges academic potential and intelligence, yet it is something that can be gamed so easily, and this is from personal experience (Just because I didn’t believe in the SAT’s usefulness as an admission criterion didn’t mean I didn’t take it seriously, haha).</p>
<p>People that I consider to be very bright from my HS could not crack 2000 and some people that I never thought of as academically competitive scored 2100+. So, I can’t just call any one SAT score a cutoff as a good score.</p>
<p>I do consider 2400s as very impressive, though. =P</p>