Which is more impressive - 800 CR or 800 Math?

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<p>Title says it all.</p>

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<p>CR. Much rarer and, for most people, harder to achieve (CR often seems to be the lowest section).</p>

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<p>^ Agreed. Math can be studied, but CR is mostly a learned skill; either you have it or you don’t.</p>

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<p>If you either have it or you don’t, it’s not a learned skill.</p>

<p>CR is definitely harder.</p>

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<p>Disregarding perfect 800s…would colleges rather see a high cr score and low math, or high math and low cr?</p>

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<p>I’ve been wondering that as well. I scored 800 CR but only 680 math…</p>

<p>I would say high CR and lower math just because high CR is rarer.</p>

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<p>Unless you’re a math/science major.</p>

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<p>to losers on CC?
CR.</p>

<p>to adcoms?</p>

<p>both.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;

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<p>So according to that chart 800 writing is the rarest, followed closesly by CR, with Math the most common by a relatively large margin. As writing is largely discounted by many adcoms, if we’re equating impressiveness with rarity, then CR is our answer.</p>

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<p>CR defn. :(</p>

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<p>Unholy Sigma, how did you possibly deciper that just according to that chart? All they say is that writing is the 99+ percentile, with CR and math both in the 99th.</p>

<p>These are the tables I used when considering this question:</p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_males_females_total_group_critical_reading.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board; (CR)
<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_males_females_total_group_math.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board; (Math)</p>

<p>I don’t know – people say CR, but you can get more questions wrong on the CR and still get an 800 (I got one question wrong and still got one), whereas one question on the math can take you down as low as a 780 sometimes.</p>

<p>A perfect 800 is slightly rarer overall, it’s much rarer in males and more common in females. Last year 7,861 total students got an 800 in CR – 3,979 males and 3,881 females. For math, the number was 9,501-- 6,560 males (a difference of almost 3,000) and 2,941 females (a difference of only 1,000, and in the opposite direction).</p>

<p>But raw numbers don’t really mean that it’s better, because a smaller number of people get a 790 on both sections.</p>

<p>Honestly, I don’t think one is far more impressive to the other objectively – I think it’s a subjective thing. I am impressed by both, but an 800 math impresses me more personally because scoring an 800 CR was easy for me – I got a 760 on my first try as a sophomore. However, I couldn’t get any higher than a 660 math on the SAT. (I’m also female.)</p>