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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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 [b]enrolled[/b] 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.[/quote]
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.[/quote]

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