SAT distribution for top colleges--see how they hoover up the top scorers, leaving crumbs for the rest
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It's a way to view a webpage or a version thereof that is no longer on a particular website but was at one point in time if the crawler got to the page. The internet is forever kind of thing. The College Board used to publish their 2015 data showing the exact number of discrete scorers at each 10 point level of the SAT. It now only publishes numbers in large bands, eg, 700-800. |
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DP - See archive.org |
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Patent Plus loans were never unlimited. They were confined to cost of attendance minus financial aid offered. |
Anonymous
Look at the CDS of the 75%. 36%, or 1,614 of students submitted an SAT. Of these 403 scored above 1420. Of the 403 who scored above 1420. I doubt more than 45 of these students scoring above 1550 calculated using any type of tail probability/normal approximation. Connecticut is a high achieving state on the SAT. Its citizens/high scorers eschew UConn. |
Anonymous
Well starting next year, the ParentPlus loan is limited to $20k per year up to $65k per student for undergrad. That by itself won’t pay tuition at the Top 20s. Yes, parents were maxing these loans out to pay cost of attendance. Even parents I would have thought had plenty of money - they said it was for cash flow. |
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It every British mystery novel that I’ve read seems to use the term hoovering for vacuuming. |
Anonymous
But that doesn’t change that the word is based on an American brand vacuum cleaner. It is not a foreign word. |
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With what happened at UC San Diego:
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/11/17/uc-san-diego-finds-1-in-8-incoming-freshmen-performing-below-a-middle-school-math-level/ “The question is, are the UCs interested in and willing to go back to having a standardized test?” Polikoff said. “I’m guessing the answer to that question is no, but if that’s the case, then I think this is a foreseeable consequence of that, right?” Morgan Scott Polikoff, professor of education at USC Rossier, addressed whether or not he thinks that the UCs will make any changes. Professor Polikoff actually is an expert in the use of standards based teaching and is a major proponent of equity in math. Even he recognizes the validity of SAT's but thinks UCSD won't use SAT's. In the future, there are going to be a lot fewer UCSD's which reject the validity of the SAT and an increasing reliance on it. I can't imagine that the admissions committees even at the elites aren't aware of and react to the UCSD saga. |
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| On average, there are very large differences in IQ and hours of study per week among different populations in California. If the UC only admitted by scholastic aptitude and performance, the top UC schools would be racially very unrepresentative of the state at large. |
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Spell it out: if the UC only admitted by scholastic aptitude and performance, the top UC schools would enroll almost no white students, and a lot of people now complaining about how there are too many Black and Hispanic students would find that intolerable. |
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| Genuine question. When discussing scores, are schools using super scores (I presume so)? Similarly, when posters here discuss scores, are you all using kids’ super scores or best single test scores? Or are things all over the map? |
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Some schools do not use the superscore, like Wisconsin. Most do. You’ll need to check your student’s schools. |