I’ve been looking at the SCEA Decisions thread and have noticed one interesting trend – the importance of high SAT II scores in the humanities vs. SAT II scores in Math/Science (Note: in pulling these stats together, I’ve taken out international and URM students).
What remains is a very small sample size, but high SAT II Math/Science scores don’t seem to make a difference for gaining admission; high SAT II humanities scores do.
I counted 11 people who had a score of 770 or higher on an SAT II Literature, History, or Language test. Of those 11, 9 were accepted. Here’s the breakdown:
US History 800 2 of 3 accepted
World History 800 2 of 3 accepted (deferred student ranked 88 in class of 413)
Spanish 790 accepted
US History 780 accepted
Literature 780 accepted
US History 770 accepted
Literature 770 accepted
There weren’t many high SAT IIs in the humanities among those deferred. In addition to the 2 counted above, I saw the following high SAT IIs for deferred students:
US History 760
Literature 760 (student had 3.78 GPA)
US History 740
Literature 730 2 of 2
Now look at the Math/Science SAT II scores of deferred students:
Bio 800, Math II 770, Chem 780, Phys 790
Math II: 800, Chemistry: 790
Physics (800), Math II (800)
Math II (800), Chemistry (760)
790 Math II
760 Biology
Math II 800
Math II 780, Bio M 760
Math II (800), Physics (800)
780 Math II
Math I (790), Math II (800), Chem (770)
Note: some of the accepted students also had high Math and/or Science SAT IIs, but the deferred students with high Math/Science SAT IIs did not have high humanities SAT II scores.
Pretty interesting.
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