<p>Hey guys. I was just wondering... When BSs are looking at your SSAT score, do they focus more on your overall score or does percentile matter the most?</p>
<p>Percentile is all that matters.</p>
<p>Benley is right.</p>
<p>Tennisgeek1 is right.</p>
<p>So for instance, if you got an overall of 1010 (Not saying I did, it’s just hypothetical), but you got a 99th percentile, schools like Exeter, Deerfield, or Andover would take you into consideration? (Seriously, I didn’t get 1010 on my SSAT, just curious)</p>
<p>@BobTheCow
I think the schools automatically assume that if you got a 99th percentile, you’re in the 2250-2400 points.</p>
<p>Howard Johnson is right!</p>
<p>urban flop and fun is fun is right.</p>
<p>BOB! The percentile is BASED on your score! So, if you are in the 95%tile, only 4% of test takers (theoretically) had a higher SCORE than you.</p>
<p>Besides, I think the schools get some kind of comparative report, showing where your score ranks compared to other applicants, last year’s accepted students, etc. There a really long (and very informative) post by Dyer M’ker - or however he currupted Led Zepplin’s song title - ages back. I’m too tired to dig for it. Do a title search on SSAT.</p>
<p>Sorry if I’m snippy. I’m tired.</p>
<p>well boarding schools only look at independent not national, i think they look at both, the percentile is extremely important but so is the overall score. They look at your overall scores to estimate how you will do on the SAT’s. They want you to score high on SAT’s because it looks good for the school.</p>
<p>According to an educational consultant who may or may not know what she is talking about, the National percentile is irrelevant. The SSAT percentile is what matters. A lower score in one area may be ok, but not if it is very low in reading since a lower reading comprehension score may indicate difficulty in grasping concepts. </p>
<p>I was also told that everyone worries about their percentile but the essay portion of the SSAT may be looked at more than one would think. This makes sense when you consider that it is the only piece of writing that is guaranteed to be solely written by the applicant. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I don’t get it. My brother got horrible scores and while his percentage right in each section and overall are awful, somehow his national percentiles are high. Does this just mean a lot of people got awful scores in the past three years?</p>
<p>Missyyujin ~ the national percentages are estimated with a hypothetical pool of ALL students of that grade across the U.S. Therefore, if ALL 8th graders (or whatever grade he is in) in the U.S. took the test, that is the percentile your brother would have received. But the actual percentiles are based on all students of his grade who took the SSAT over the past 3 years. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>In my daughter’s case, the percentile difference was HUGE for math. I guess that means that the students who take the SSAT are really good in math…lol.</p>
<p>For my brother, the percentile different was HUGE for everything. -__-
Thanks, though! :)</p>