Class of 2022 Stats

[Anonymous]

I thought this would be helpful to the DCU community as some colleges are releasing their common data sets for their recent class. We can add schools as they release.

GeorgiaTech: 30-34 ACT, 640-730 EBRW, 690-790 Math
Michigan: 30-34 ACT, 660-730 EBRW, 670-780 Math
Berkeley*: 29-35 ACT, 660-750 EBRW, 670-750 Math
Virginia: 30-34 ACT, 660-730 EBRW, 670-770 Math
William and Mary: 30-33 ACT, 660-730 EBRW, 650-760 Math
Emory: 31-34, 660-730 EBRW, 690-790 Math
UCLA: 28-34, 640-740 EBRW, 630-780 Math
Williams: 32-35, 710-760 EBRW, 700-790 Math
CMC: 31-34, 670-730 EBRW, 680-770 Math
Cornell: 32-34, 680-750 EBRW, 710-790 Math

[Anonymous]

Wow, the average ACT score when my younger sister went to Michigan in 2007 was 29. Now that's below the 25th percentile.

[Anonymous]

Folks: the scores/gpas for the accepted class of 2023 will be much higher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks: the scores/gpas for the accepted class of 2023 will be much higher

This is enrolled data. Surprised by a few UCB, and Emory to be specific.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain what these numbers refer to, what Common Data Set means? Yes, I googled but did not really get it.

[Anonymous]

I believe the ranges are for the 25th to 75th percentiles of admitted students.

You can't compare these ranges to scores on prior versions of the SAT. They've been rescaled repeatedly to increase the scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what these numbers refer to, what Common Data Set means? Yes, I googled but did not really get it.

Common data set is a formatted resource that colleges publish that give information on a host of institutional data for the university. From demographics, graduation rates, GPA SAT/ACT for the enrolled students, financial aid, etc.

The numbers posted are middle 50%tile SAT scores for each section, and ACT middle 50%tile scores for each schools' enrolled freshman students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe the ranges are for the 25th to 75th percentiles of admitted students.

You can't compare these ranges to scores on prior versions of the SAT. They've been rescaled repeatedly to increase the scores.

No enrolled Students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe the ranges are for the 25th to 75th percentiles of admitted students.

You can't compare these ranges to scores on prior versions of the SAT. They've been rescaled repeatedly to increase the scores.

I'm pretty sure the stats for the common data set are based on enrolled student, not admitted students. I'm assuming that the average accepted scores at public flagships are higher than these because the people turning down Berkeley, UVA, & Michigan are going to schools likes Harvard, Johns Hopkins, & Williams not VA Tech, UC Santa Barbara, & Michigan State (obviously nothing is wrong with these schools)

[Anonymous]

Here are some I compiled from the CDS (so these are for enrolled students- admitted students generally have a higher profile):

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe the ranges are for the 25th to 75th percentiles of admitted students.

You can't compare these ranges to scores on prior versions of the SAT. They've been rescaled repeatedly to increase the scores.

I'm pretty sure the stats for the common data set are based on enrolled student, not admitted students. I'm assuming that the average accepted scores at public flagships are higher than these because the people turning down Berkeley, UVA, & Michigan are going to schools likes Harvard, Johns Hopkins, & Williams not VA Tech, UC Santa Barbara, & Michigan State (obviously nothing is wrong with these schools)

You are correct - CDS reports enrolled student data, not applicant or admitted stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are some I compiled from the CDS (so these are for enrolled students- admitted students generally have a higher profile):

For the LACs, ED helps SO much. I wonder what percent receive aid who apply early. Not many people have the option to not compare aid packages.

[Anonymous]

Posted numbers like these I fail to take at face value. I'm not saying there is purposeful manipulation, but the numbers just don't seem to add up. If you look at the SAT for example, the 98th SAT user percentile currently posted for the math section is 770. 2.1M students took the SAT last year. So then only 42K students scored 770 or higher on this section. Yet almost all of the schools listed claim that 25% of the enrolled class scored at or above this number. And many top schools are not even on this list. And you have to account for those attending lower ranked schools for financial reasons. It just seems like there aren't enough high scoring kids to go around for all these schools to have such high reported stats. UVA, Berkeley, UCLA and Michigan, for example, have very large classes. I would take these numbers with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posted numbers like these I fail to take at face value. I'm not saying there is purposeful manipulation, but the numbers just don't seem to add up. If you look at the SAT for example, the 98th SAT user percentile currently posted for the math section is 770. 2.1M students took the SAT last year. So then only 42K students scored 770 or higher on this section. Yet almost all of the schools listed claim that 25% of the enrolled class scored at or above this number. And many top schools are not even on this list. And you have to account for those attending lower ranked schools for financial reasons. It just seems like there aren't enough high scoring kids to go around for all these schools to have such high reported stats. UVA, Berkeley, UCLA and Michigan, for example, have very large classes. I would take these numbers with a grain of salt.

This is a very interesting point I hadn't thought of. (like the old song, things that make you go hmmm...)

It'll be interesting to see what happens going forward, as recent scoring scales have made it difficult to score highly on math (780 would be -1 for recent tests, whereas for class of 2022, -1 or -2 might even yield an 800). Perhaps the motivation behind College Board's scale changes included massaging the scales to lower math scores at the top, though it's unclear why they made it easier at the same time, rather than harder.

[Anonymous]

Super scoring is one thing that makes these numbers unnaturally high.