<p>Do schools care more about your overall percentile? I think I did really well in vocab and reading but not so great in math. I estimate I got maybe a 69th percentile in math(based on omitted answers and how many I thought I may have gotten wrong) and 90 percentile in vocab and reading. </p>
<p>Will schools (Choate,Taft,Andover) just look at the low math score and ignore the others?</p>
<p>Maybe I should wait 'till I receive my scores before worrying...</p>
<p>Well, I did the about the same- at least 14% lower in math than on verbal and reading -and I can't say for sure, but I think they look at both sides.
Maybe you were overall a great student (overall 90+%) but you aren't the strongest math student? If they need a strong math student, there may be a problem. If not, you're fine.</p>
<p>Correct me if I'm wrong. :)</p>
<p>This can vary from school to school. If you look at the Salisbury presentation posted on the educational consultant thread, you will see the study Salisbury did to find the correlation between SSAT scores and first year gpa. I don't remember which test component was best for Salisbury. A number of years ago, I heard the Director of Admissions from Exeter state that SSAT math component was the best predictor of academic success at Exeter. Please don't think that you need to get a 99% on math to be competitive at Exeter or that a 15% gap is cause for worry when your scores are all high. I believe schools conduct these studies and correlations vary by school.</p>
<p>Actually, the ssatb prepares reports for the schools when the schools provide the necessary data. They are called validity reports, similar to what Burb Parent described for Salisbury. SSATB also strongly urges schools to look at scaled scores rather than percentiles. The report that the school receives, while it contains all the info that student reports have, also compares your scaled score to those received in the previous admissions cycle by so the school can compare your score to those of previously admitted students and current applicants. </p>
<p>Let me search for the links from ssatb.....</p>
<p>Actually, I'm going to start a new thread called "Useful links" where people can post links directly that may be of use during the admissions process.</p>