25th Percentile: What It Means for Your Kid’s College Admissions Chances?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the college.

This

[Anonymous]

What if you look at CDS and see your student is 25th percentile in total score but not in one of your subscores. My daughter is applying CS and her ACT composite and math are 25th percentile but her English is lower. English is her first language, ironically. If a school is test required are her chances shot?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid's scores were around the 25th percentile for every school he applied to. He didn't submit the scores anywhere and got into all of the schools (8 of them EA and the other two accepted him RD after they deferred him).

and hooked?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if you look at CDS and see your student is 25th percentile in total score but not in one of your subscores. My daughter is applying CS and her ACT composite and math are 25th percentile but her English is lower. English is her first language, ironically. If a school is test required are her chances shot?

Is your child neurodivergent? Mine has this same issue. He is on the autism spectrum and has ADHD.

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Name the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything is reverting to the pre-Covid norm.

This is just not true. A majority of schools remain test optional, with some limited exceptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Name the school.

UMD and UVA

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Not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but it seems to relate to the thread. If with TO a schools scores skewed high, if they revert back to test required should a 2026 look to percentile pre-TO or skip to today. For example, in 2019 when UMD was test required the range was 1290 (25th%) -1460 (75th). It's much higher now during TO. If they go back to test required next year would a 1290 SAT for a 2026 grade stand a chance?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Name the school.

UMD and UVA

DC admitted UVA EA last year with a 1390 (I think that’s around the 25th percentile). Naviance showed strong chances of admission with that score and GPA, and DC also thought the assumption would be that an unreported score was lower.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name the school.

UMD and UVA

DC admitted UVA EA last year with a 1390 (I think that’s around the 25th percentile). Naviance showed strong chances of admission with that score and GPA, and DC also thought the assumption would be that an unreported score was lower.

Good luck!

I do not believe this. Don't listen to this, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name the school.

UMD and UVA

DC admitted UVA EA last year with a 1390 (I think that’s around the 25th percentile). Naviance showed strong chances of admission with that score and GPA, and DC also thought the assumption would be that an unreported score was lower.

Good luck!

I do not believe this. Don't listen to this, OP.

I’m PP and I have absolutely zero incentive to lie. What part of this is unbelievable? We are in-state and you have no idea what my DC’s GPA, AP scores, or ECs look like.

[Anonymous]

OP:

DD got into her ED school. She submitted her score, which was on the 25th percentile. It's a school where about 60% of kids submit...if you look at the 2019 Common Data Set, the same score was higher than the median.

Hope that helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name the school.

UMD and UVA

DC admitted UVA EA last year with a 1390 (I think that’s around the 25th percentile). Naviance showed strong chances of admission with that score and GPA, and DC also thought the assumption would be that an unreported score was lower.

Good luck!

I do not believe this. Don't listen to this, OP.

Have you lost your mind?

to the PP: Very in line with what I saw at FCPS public. On Naviance I can clearly see 2 1230-1200 SAT 4.2-4.0s (albeit in a sea of red) who were accepted to UVA. Why are people so delusional?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name the school.

UMD and UVA

DC admitted UVA EA last year with a 1390 (I think that’s around the 25th percentile). Naviance showed strong chances of admission with that score and GPA, and DC also thought the assumption would be that an unreported score was lower.

Good luck!

I do not believe this. Don't listen to this, OP.

Have you lost your mind?

to the PP: Very in line with what I saw at FCPS public. On Naviance I can clearly see 2 1230-1200 SAT 4.2-4.0s (albeit in a sea of red) who were accepted to UVA. Why are people so delusional?

I guess it doesn’t fit the narrative here that you “must” have a 1500+ and 4.4+ GPA to be admitted to UVA from a DMV public. Either that, or people truly don’t understand the concept of 25th percentile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name the school.

UMD and UVA

DC admitted UVA EA last year with a 1390 (I think that’s around the 25th percentile). Naviance showed strong chances of admission with that score and GPA, and DC also thought the assumption would be that an unreported score was lower.

Good luck!

I do not believe this. Don't listen to this, OP.

Have you lost your mind?

to the PP: Very in line with what I saw at FCPS public. On Naviance I can clearly see 2 1230-1200 SAT 4.2-4.0s (albeit in a sea of red) who were accepted to UVA. Why are people so delusional?

NP. I would assume such outliers did not submit those scores.

That said, the PP admitted after submitting the 1390 sounds perfectly reasonable to me for a public university, even a highly-selective one.