What is an example of a good SAT score?

Question

What is the score that everything higher than that is good and everything below okay or bad?

For say a good college

Answer 1

1900-2100 is generally good, med schools normally 2200+, community colleges anything above 1600

Answer 2

This is not an answerable question.

Just about every college has a page on their website where they post the GPAs and SATs for their incoming students. Usually they post the 25 -75% range. That is, they tell the score that was higher than the lowest 25% of kids, and the score that was lower than the highest 25%. It is the middle range. If you are picking what school to apply to, you should probably look for a school where your score would fall within the middle of that range.

In the elite schools like Harvard and the Ivies, Duke, Stanford, MIT, University of Chicago, etc. the middle range is usually about 1380 up to about 1480 (for two parts -most schools still don't count the third part). Lots of very good schools are about 100 points lower - say, schools like GWU or Vanderbilt.

In a lot of good public colleges the range is more like 1100 - 1250. But there are plenty of kids at state universities who scored SATs equivalent to the elite private schools. There are plenty of schools that take kids with lower scores.

But you really need to specifically check the exact schools that you are interested in....

ps no one gets admitted because they got a high SAT - you have to have the marks to go with it!

Answer 3

Like the other guy said, there is no easy answer. A good SAT score should somewhat be correlated with your GPA--but not always.

In addition, you must also consider the fact that not all educations, motviations, etc are equal, thus a good score for one may not be a good score for another.

In general, its pretty obvious that the higher the score, the better it looks for an application, but the SAT will rarely be the determining factor of one's acceptance or rejection in college admissions.

To give you a certain # would be biased because of my previous education. Do the best you can--thats all you should really aim for.

Answer 4

atleast 700 on each subject.