SAT score percentile
Is 1490 a good SAT score?
National percentile
98th
Top 5% nationally
1490 is a very strong SAT score.
You are in the top 5% of test takers nationally, which is at or above the median for most selective universities. Retesting usually returns less than deepening coursework, activities, and the material an application is actually built from.
- SAT total
- 1490
- User percentile
- 98th
- Percent scoring below
- 98%
- ACT equivalent
- 33
What to do with this number
A score only means something next to a college list.
National percentiles and concordance tables tell you where a score sits across the country. They don't tell you whether it's competitive at the specific schools your student is considering, or what to work on between now and application season. HIYP tracks a student's scores, grades, courses, and activities year by year and turns them into the next concrete step.
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