Is a 1500 a good SAT score?

Answer 1

The best possible score on the SAT is a 2400, a score achieved by just hundreds of the more than a million students who take the SAT each year. The average SAT score is about 1540.
But what's a good SAT score? While many students and parents ask that question, there really isn't a great answer. A good score on the SAT is different for each student, and depends on where you want to go to college.

Here are some rough, unofficial estimates of the average SAT score at various schools. The average isn't necessarily the score you need to get into a college--there are plenty of factors other than SAT score at work, and by definition half of the students at any school are below the average. But it's a good ballpark figure if you're trying to decide whether your SAT score is good enough.


Harvard - 2200
Williams - 2125
University of Virginia - 2000
UCLA - 1900
Iowa State - 1825
Ohio State - 1800
DePaul - 1750
Arizona - 1700
University of Indiana - 1650

Answer 2

It's a very good score. Most schools require 1000 for admissions. The really good ones require 1300. 1600 is maximum.

EDIT: After reading several other answers, it has become clear to me that the scoring system for the SAT has changed. If it's a 2400 scale now (instead of 1600), it's probably only an average score.

Answer 3

It's an extremely average score.

Answer 4

That is pretty good.

I think that would get the attention of most universities when you put that on your application.


ADDED:

Oops, it depends on what scale is being used, a 1600 scale or a 2400 scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT

Answer 5

depends on wether you count the writing section or not, if it's only math and reading it is damn good but if it's all 3 it is pretty bad

Answer 6

It's fair.

Answer 7

pretty good, yeah.

Answer 8

yes, it's 99.65%