what is a good SAT score?
337526
2400 is perfect, so i would say 1500!
69209
Truthfully, probably not.  The competition to get into prestigous schools is phenomenal and one of the barometers is the SAT.  It obviously consumes a lot of people.\n\nOut in the real world, your SAT score won't take you too far, but a college degree certainly will.  Do your best on your SAT's when you take them so you'll have the best choice of colleges available.  You don't have to score 1600 to succeed, despite what you might have heard.
720414
The link below gives the average scores for the Reading and Math sections up until 2004. Because the writing section was released so recently, there are no conclusive data regarding average and good scores. I would expect an average score now would be between 1400 and 1900 and a "good" score would be above that. 2400 should be the max as it is three sections.
1132293
1100 is an average score for admission\n1250 is a good score for admission but average scor for Scholarship\n\n1300 is good score for scholarships\nFind more about SAT   http://www.admissionglobal.com   or http://www.catzone.org or http://www.entrytest.com
453259
Sorry, but I do not agree with your opinion. Colleges have to have some standard bench mark to judge applicants by and high school results are not standard enough. \n\nIf someone scores 700-800 on an SAT, chances are really good they are not going to get through college. If someone scores 1200+ on an SAT, chances are they are going to do fine in college. In between, there may be room for supposition.
220061
Studying and getting good grades in high school certainly help. Excellent SAT and ACT test scores, also. Check the web sites of colleges you are interested in and see what their test score requirements are. It also helps to be a 'well rounded' student. That means get involved in various activities in and out of school - sports, band, clubs, volunteer work - the more, the better.
765413
That's great! It translates to about 1450 or so on the old SATs, if that helps. Most scholarships haven't necessarily adapted to this score though, so if you see a request for the score out of 1600, add the scores from the Verbal and Math sections.
392712
Take the test and get a good score.
736079
Now that they've established the new SAT, 1600 is well below the perfect score. I took the SAT a couple of weeks ago and made a 1640, which is only a little above average.\n\nI looked online, and the site won't list the usual combined score for students, but usually it's around 700 for reading and math individually.\n\nSo around 1400 if you aren't counting your essay and writing skills points
458684
SAT, its a general knowledges test, you need it to apply to any american University. Each Uni. ask for a certain average in your score.\n\nTOEFL, its an english profficiency test, here as well, Unis, ask for a certain ammount of score in this one.\n\norganizations? depending in your grades you can apply for a FULLBRIGHT scholarship.\n\ncheerios,.
1016008
Since the SAT is based on a bell curve and not on a set standart, the scores fluctuate a lot. The "average" student gets a 500, making 1500 average and anything above, above average.\nHowever, it depends on the college you want to apply to. For example, Harvard probably wouldn't consider anything under 2100, but for the California State University system, a 1600 is probably good enough. However, I don't know the average for people who didn't have English as their first language, though I'm pretty sure that a majority of people who take this test has English as their second language.
1184416
Actually the SAT II is only out of a maximum of 800 points per subject you take it in.  The SAT I is the basica SAT test and it tests you on Reading, Writing, and Mathematics.  Each one of these categories of the exam giving you a score between 200-800.  The SAT II test is an exam based on single subjects such as Biology, History, Literature or foreign languages among many others.  However the scoring system for each test is the same giving you 1 point for a correct answer 0 points for omitted and a minus 1/4 point for a wrong answer.  I hope that this has helped you out.
805965
I'm not aware of any such link sorry. But what I know is, most colleges do not have a cutoff point for the SATs. So with your above average score, you should be able to apply to most colleges easily.
760087
Umm...actually. The total score now is 2400. They've added a writing section and changed the Verbal section to Critical Reading.\n\nI wasn't aware that mark you based on where you are. :| The highest score you can get in MA...is the same as the highest score you can get anywhere else. 2400. Though only very few get as high. I believe only 200 or more students got a perfect score in the new SAT.
1011440
Depending on your score, it might be good, but you need it to be great. First of all you have to decide whether or not you want to go to a state university or an ivy league. If you want to go to an ivy league school, you will need to take the SAT again. The higher your score, the better chances that you will get into the school that you want to. If you think you got a good score, take it again, it can't hurt. If you get the same score, then no worries. Get a better score, then use it to your advantage and get the scholarship money...the less your parents spend on school, the more you get. If you happen to get a lower score (God forbid) then use your inital score and keep on moving. It is a win-win situation no matter how you look at it. Again, the higher the score, the better the chance for you to get into the school of your choice, and get scholarship money to pay for school.
623682
The SAT does a fairly good job of predicting how well students will do in the first year of college.  Whether that matters--college is usually 4 years and then there is a lifetime of work ahead of you after that--is another story.  But there is some value to the SAT in figuring out whether you developed any real analysis skills while you were in high school.\n\nBut the real answer to your question is that if you want to go to college, the SAT matters simply because the colleges say it does.  Just like grades and recommendations, the SAT doesn't mean everything, but if you want to get admitted, it means quite a bit.
1100989
A 4.0 GPA is better because it shows that you are willing to put in the work and be responsible on a consistent basis. That is what colleges want to see. A high SAT score is meaningless without anything to back it up.