Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment My 7th graders' SAT scores, save or purge?

Here's a question. How (and when) can you use SAT to show a kid is an 99.9th %ile? Or 99.99th %ile?

What is SET?

Thank you everybody for your advices!!! It's so helpful to hear from so many different perspectives! The only reason I would want to keep the scores is for any programs or camps before high school that require SAT scores to qualify. I would not rely on this for college admission. My husband wants to save purely for sentimental reasons! 😉

I still can't decide but leaning towards purge.

I will come back and let everybody know my decision.
Thank you so very very much!!!

I'm not sure about the decimals but the score report tells you the percentile.
730 in this test is 96%.

That might be for all test takers. But this
http://www.davidsongifted.org/young...holars___Qualification_Criteria_384.aspx
suggests that a Math SAT score of 630 in Grade 7 puts one at the 99.9th %ile (of 7th graders in general, not just those who take the test, which is a self-selected group) so 730 is well above that. I've read that qualifying for SET http://cty.jhu.edu/set/ puts one at the 99.99th %ile.

You can't demonstrate those high percentiles with SAT in late high school because the ceiling is too low.

You can demonstrate high percentiles with math competitions. But I still don't see a reason to discard young and high SAT scores.

I know. Just found this on Duke tip website, the result summary reflects the 28,600 seventh grade scores received by Duke TIP this year, 730 in math is 99 percentile, 550 CR is surprisingly 90 percentile, and most unexpected to me is the 500 W score is 86 percentile!