With the new SAT it would be 1270 out of 1600. Not great, but not bad.
I looked it up and it is the 80th percentile. For a white male (or an Asian) this would not be enough to get into a top school.
Hogg has posts on Reddit specifically whining about how poor his SAT score is though.
“With the new SAT it would be 1270 out of 1600. Not great, but not bad.
I looked it up and it is the 80th percentile. For a white male (or an Asian) this would not be enough to get into a top school.”
I think it's been "recentered" a couple of times over the years, too.
If he had self-identified as a blue-eyed trisexual Native American woman, was able to throw a ball accurately through some point in space, or was a legacy, he shouldn't have had too much trouble being admitted to a top school.
The SATs were normalized years ago. A 1978 1150 was better than a 1250 in 2018.
Context is very important.
A GPA of 4.2 out of 4 paired with an SAT score of 1270 out of 1600 fairly screams MAJOR GRADE INFLATION. It has caused a mediocre student to believe he is a genius — no doubt he thinks something is wrong with the SAT test. Colleges are not oblivious to this phenomenon.