<p>I think kyledavid80 is right to say you shouldn’t count on your SAT to get you into Stanford. (or Berkeley!) I personally know a very strong Math/Science concentrator, who got 800R/800M/760W the first and only time he took the SAT, and got 800 in Physics SAT II and 800 in Math IIC, was denied outright at Stanford (not WL) and admitted to MIT. He had very strong grades, too, and had challenged himself with 12 AP classes in all, including Euro and US history, Spanish, Eng Lit etc, so he wasn’t one-dimensional science.</p>
<p>(Obviously, he also had ECs - he wasn’t just scores and grades - and had some high level awards in his science ECs.)</p>
<p>Net - the top tier colleges are unpredictable - there’s no sure thing.</p>