Highest average SAT scores post-covid of the top 35 colleges as we evolve into a more test required environment

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Anonymous wrote:1590 - went to UMD. Rejected from MIT.

1580 also rejected from MIT. They did get an interview, though. Also rejected from Mich and GAtech.

CS major, male at UMD now with merit.

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The biggest standout to me reviewing this is what a difference a school like Brown is with 80% of its students submitting scores that produced its high SAT average versus a number if other colleges that have less than 50% of their srudents reporting thus included in their “high” average.

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Anonymous wrote:1590 - went to UMD. Rejected from MIT.

1580 also rejected from MIT. They did get an interview, though. Also rejected from Mich and GAtech.

CS major, male at UMD now with merit.

Not surprised your child was rejected at Michigan with a 1580. 25% of Michigan's class (really closer to 40% because Michigan is test optional) score below a 1350. So your kid would really be an anomaly there. As such Michigan places little emphasis on the SAT. Your child's score would have been in the top 5% of enrolled students. But it shows you institutional priorities can skew who is admitted. Michigan being a public, state-serving institution isn't the best fit for the classic hardcore high stats kid.

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Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

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Anonymous wrote:Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

It shows how selective UVA is. UC has really built out and democratized their system. UVA remains a small snob school.

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Anonymous wrote:Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

It shows how selective UVA is. UC has really built out and democratized their system. UVA remains a small snob school.

I don't know what that means The data shows definitively that SAT scores correlate to student outcomes. UVA's SAT scores are far higher than the mid UC's (or at least when the UC's used them).That tells me UVA is better!

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Anonymous wrote:Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

It shows how selective UVA is. UC has really built out and democratized their system. UVA remains a small snob school.

I don't know what that means The data shows definitively that SAT scores correlate to student outcomes. UVA's SAT scores are far higher than the mid UC's (or at least when the UC's used them).That tells me UVA is better!

UVA is "better" relatively to the lower tiered UCs. Congrats?

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Anonymous wrote:Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

It shows how selective UVA is. UC has really built out and democratized their system. UVA remains a small snob school.

I don't know what that means The data shows definitively that SAT scores correlate to student outcomes. UVA's SAT scores are far higher than the mid UC's (or at least when the UC's used them).That tells me UVA is better!

UVA is "better" relatively to the lower tiered UCs. Congrats?

UC Irvine now gets 121K applications to 56K at UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:1560 and still got rejected from Harvard and Penn!

Same rejected from Princeton. Good gpa as well

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Anonymous wrote:1560 and still got rejected from Harvard and Penn! [/quote

There's more to an application than a test score.

What is there? Good Gpa they have it

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's become a bit of a disgusting game. The test isn't about knowledge, it's about who paid most to retake over and over again to get absolute top scores. It weeds out a lot of kids who could absolutely do just as well at competitive schools.

retaking the test over and over (people usually only do 1 or 2) doesn't give you *that* big of a bump.

Regardless, some of the top colleges are finding that SAT scores in conjunction with grades are a better predictor of success in college than just grades (inflated more often than not) alone.

I don't think they do because they are rejecting kids with good SAT and GPA so far we will see if RD is different.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

It shows how selective UVA is. UC has really built out and democratized their system. UVA remains a small snob school.

I don't know what that means The data shows definitively that SAT scores correlate to student outcomes. UVA's SAT scores are far higher than the mid UC's (or at least when the UC's used them).That tells me UVA is better!

But you need to look at how many of UVA’s admitted students submitted scores. It isn’t that high.

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Anonymous wrote:Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

Low SAT Michigan? Not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiousity, UVA's is so much higher than when the University of California system used to use the SAT. For example, at UC Irvine, the 25% SAT was 1190!!! It shows how strong UVA is compared to the other publics, especially low SAT ones like Michigan.

Low SAT Michigan? Not.

25% of Michigan's freshmen class got below a 1350. And this with only 50% submitting SAT scores. So yet, Michigan's SAT is low.

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OP thank you for posting this list. Very instructive.