<p>Does Collegeboard congratulate you ? do they send you flowers if you are a girl :) ?
Or does it simply show as a 800/800/800 on your collegeboard "my scores" page without anything else ?</p>
<p>Nothing special happens.</p>
<p>^ false. CB mails you your choice of a xbox 360, $200 make-up package, or a $150 giftcard redeemable anywhere.</p>
<p>thou shalt receive 2400 points from CB</p>
<p>I take the $200 make-up package !</p>
<p>@olleger: If only collegeboard was that charitable! But I do believe the scores themselves are reward enough, eh?</p>
<p>Well, if you scored a 2400 SAT or 36 ACT in high school, you will be invited in September of your senior year to compete in the very prestigious award called the Presidential Scolars Award. The program also picks out the best arts students from another competition, the’youngArts Award’. It offers no price money however.</p>
<p>Each year, approx. 150 seniors are selected to go to the White House and meet with the president.</p>
<p>[U.S</a>. Presidential Scholars Program: Eligibility](<a href=“http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/eligibility.html]U.S”>U.S. Presidential Scholars Program: Eligibility)</p>
<p>^ To be eligible for the program you have to score 2300+, not necessarily 2400.</p>
<p>I think that they take a certain number of the top scorers in the state each year, don’t they. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be a 2400 in that case</p>
<p>^ for the ACT, must it be a 36? would a 34 or 35 suffice?</p>
<p>Wait…2300+? Is a 2300 enough? I’m satisfied with my superscore, but my highest single-sitting is only 2300; if that knocks me out of the running for the Presidential Scholars program…then I’ll unfortunately be re-visiting the test. =(</p>
<p>Actually, assuming Wikipedia is halfway accurate, the 36/2400 statement is, indeed, accurate. However, more than just students with 36/2400 will receive invitations to apply to the Presidential Scholars program–that is, if there are fewer than 30 males and 30 females with perfect scores in your state.</p>
<p>Evidently, the cut-off score in each state is determined by the lowest female or male score of the state’s top 20 male’s scores and top 20 females’ scores.</p>
<p>This is highly unfortunate for me. =P Although I have to ask, given the way in which the SAT and ACT concord…how would they rank a 2350 against a 35? It seems rather difficult.</p>
<p>You will get lots of mail from places you’ve probably never heard of.</p>
<p>Also, there’s a formula somewhere to calculate equivalencies between ACT and SAT scores. I know we used it to decide which to send, but I don’t remember where we found it.</p>
<p>In case anyone is interested: [Estimated</a> Relationship between ACT Composite Score and SAT CR+M+W Score](<a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html]Estimated”>http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html).</p>
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<p>I thought that Collegeboard can’t actually send out your scores to schools unless you choose them on like the score report thing?</p>
<p>silverturtle - I’ve seen this chart several times in the past and found it highly useful. However, in this case, the chart seems rather ineffective, since each ACT score covers such a broad range of SAT numbers. When determining Presidential Scholars eligibility, 2310 obviously ranks below 2370, but where would the 35 fall–above 2310 and below 2370? At the 2330 level?</p>
<p>Does anyone have cutoffs by state for this program?</p>
<p>I am interested in the answer to Essays’s question as well.</p>
<p>Two kids in my class of 110 got single-sitting 2400s this year. One is a very unassuming boy who actually got a little embarrassed by it. The other went on the news because her parents called up the television station. idk… her parents were trying to be proud i guess?</p>
<p>Conclusion: Nothing super special happens. You get a better (still not guaranteed!) shot at getting into a buch of top-tier institutions, that’s all.</p>
<p>@zexodus yes 2300 is good enough. anything 2300 or above.</p>