Does anyone know which boarding schools below do the super score?
Andover
Exeter
St. Paul
Deerfield
Lawrenceville
Choate
Milton
Groton
Middlesex
Thanks!
You can do a search, because this question has been asked a million times. Here is one example:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/2051457-ssat-superscoring.html
I don’t see the logic in why a school would Superscore if the objective was to form the best assessment of the candidates. First, their is some value in seeing the mix/range of scores a candidate submits and there is the potential for some insight. However, for a lot of examples, there probably isn’t too much insight and it would be squinting at details. So if the objective was then to simply the issue and arrive at one score for a candidate, they should AVERAGE the subscores for each section for a candidate rather than taking the highest score for each section. That would be the most informative score for a candidate and the appropriate score to be comparing against other candidates that only submit ONE test score. By Superscoring, it incentivizes candidates to take the test multiple times because almost certainly their Superscore will be higher than any of the individual test scores.
However, the only rationale I can see for schools to Superscore is that it will create some degree of artificial boost to level of the average or median SSAT score they report for accepted students to their school. I’m not sure how significant an upward boost it is, but it is something and it’s artificial. If every candidate submitted 3-4 sets of SSAT scores and schools Superscore, it would create immediate “grade inflation” for SSAT scores.
I would just call and ask the AO who interviewed you.
OK - kids - this will freak you out. We submitted a couple sets of scores (2 SSATs) to the schools because they were really variable results from test to test. For example, one time math was higher while reading was lower (Ye Olde English poem) but another time, reading was higher and math a tad lower. OK - so we thought it would be interesting to send both because it showed that there are strengths but also variability on the test. Kiddo is accepted and we think nothing of it. Later when school begins, we open up the student portal and there in all their glory are the SSAT scores for kiddo, parents, and all the teachers to see. Interesting. Just when you think you don’t have to think about SSAT ever again - they are there.
At some point, you just need to file under “It is what it is.” Regardless, let’s not derail the thread with discussions of why; that was not the OP’s question.
The shorter list may be the schools that don’t superscore.
(@CMKDad: This discussion is not about why schools superscore or the implications of it. The OP just wanted to know which boarding schools on his list practice it.)
I called the admission office in the list. All the schools in the list do the super score expect Deerfield and Milton.