I was prepared to come in here and debunk your claim - I didn’t realize they’d changed the scoring system. I got a 1530 before, but now I’ll always wonder what I could’ve scored…
For a while in college, I took potential GRE’s for ETS for money. I’m not sure exactly how they selected me, but it probably had to do with my score on the actual test matching some statistical model they wanted to fill.
I took 10 or 12 test sections over the course of a few months, and got around $20 per section. Although they give you something like 45 minutes to take a section, it was rare when I couldn’t finish the language parts in under 30 and the math ones in under 10 (GRE Math is easy). It was probably the coolest part time job I had while at college. It was well-paid, reasonably interesting, and I could schedule it any time I had half an hour free.
I’d really like to see a cite on that. That colleges are using them less, I’ll readily believe. But when I graduated with a BA in psych ten years ago, I remember reading in one of my texts that it had been demonstrated again and again and again that grades and scores *were * in fact the best predictors of future academic performance. Ironically, even the psych professors who knew this apparently considered that their own judgement was superior and that they would be the exception.
If there are controlled studies showing that SATs, particularly in conjunction with grades, are *not * good predictors of academic performance, I’d be very interested in seeing them!
Bah, if you’re this excited about your scores then you’re probably one of the ones the College Board fucked up:
Kidding. Congratulations.
I only got a 1200 on the old system. I must be a knuckle dragging drool dripping igmo compared to the likes of you people!
Great job!
College admissions rep checking in…
congratulations on the score. 2400 is considered perfect, and a 2310 works out to approximately a 1570 on the old scale (a 35 on the ACT scale).
1-2 people wondered what their old score would have been on the new system:
1200 then = approx. 1760 now.
1470 then = approx. 2190 now.
1530 then = approx. 2260 now.
I work at a moderately selective institution. The average SAT of my current crop of accepted students for the Fall 2006 term is about 1730, which is actually above avg for here. Math, not surprisingly, drags many of the scores down, typically scoring 15-20 points lower than the critical thinking and writing portions of the test.
Again, congratulations. Combined w a solid GPA and resume you should have your tuition well in hand at a number of quality schools.
Not to hijack, but is there a scale to compare an SAT to an ACT? I never took the SAT as I never needed it, just the ACT. Got a 32. What would that equate to?
Nice work. Now have fun with senior college-applying stuff.
And don’t think that nice SAT score alone will mean you’ll get in GA Tech. College admissions is like quantum mechanics. You can’t predict anything with certainty; the only thing you can do is calculate probabilities and try to shift the relative likelihood of events.
Also, it makes no sense.
Not complaining about myself, just a note on stuff I observed this past year.
Boy, you nailed that one right! I had a 3.98 GPA and two 780s and two 790s on my GREs, and STILL only got two interviews when I applied to thirteen different graduate schools. AND got into NONE! Whatever it was they were looking for, apparently I didn’t have it. (It’s turned out to be the best thing after all, but it bothered me a lot at the time).
Survey, don’t read this.
Can we all please agree that admissions offices for undergrad and post-grad work are all screw-ups of the highest order?
A 32 is about a 1420 on the old SAT scale, and a about a 2120 on the new. (I have a handy coversion chart tacked on the wall here in the office).
And threemae, that could very well be the case at many places, especially those institutions ‘shaping’ their incoming classes by making seemingly inconsistent admissions decisions. Here, we’re thrilled to get the number of qualified students targeted at the beginning of the school year, which is the case at most moderately selective institutions. Talking to students who have applied to higher-end grad schools, a common refrain seems to be ‘I thought I was what they were looking for, but I guess not’ or ‘I can’t believe I got in there; according to their posted criteria, I’m not qualified.’ Who knows? My master’s program was not competitive as far as entry, so I didn’t go through that process.
Not surprisingly? That surprises me. On my most recent SAT (taken April 1st, probably the same day as dwalin) I got
Critical Reading: 740
Mathematics: 770
Writing: 590
The math is just simple algebra. The reading and writing are mostly opinions.
Unrelated sidenote: At the end of my essay, several lines below the conclusion, I wrote “Must be hard work grading all of these essays. Have a cookie” And I drew a picture of a cookie. Think that could have affected anything?