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What is an average score and what is a good score?

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  • Laura Rheinauer

    Associate Director, Educational Connections

    www.ectutoring.com  
    703-934-8282

    A native of Allentown Pennsylvania, Laura Rheinauer received both her B.A. in History and M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Lehigh University. Passionate about the field of education, she wrote her Master's thesis on efficacy issues surrounding after-school tutoring programs. Throughout her undergrad and graduate years she worked as a reading tutor. After working in admissions at both Lehigh and Dickinson College, Laura now assists high school juniors and seniors in making their college application stand out to an admissions committee. Laura moved down to VA to join Educational Connections as Associate Director to oversee the SSAT administration, test prep, and specialized reading programs. Orton-Gillingham and Wilson trained, Laura helps place students with reading disabilities in appropriate multi-sensory programs with their assigned tutor.

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    Host: What is an average score and what is a good score?

    Laura Rheinauer: In 2007, the average SAT score was a 515 in math, 494 in writing and a 501 in critical reading. You asked to good score. It's really hard to say to someone this is a good score because it's so dependant on you, your abilities, your background and especially the schools to which you are applying, what I usually suggest to figure out a good score is to look at the colleges that you are applying to. Most of them are going to give you a score range that tells you these are the accepted students that applied. This is where their scores fell. So look at your own scores, see if that falls in the range. Of course, they will accept the students that are above that score or below that score but a good score is dependant on the colleges to which you are applying and again, a good score if you have never been strong in math and you end up getting a 500 maybe that's a great score for you.

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