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[quote=Anonymous]I've seen the Less HS Stress website. It's basically says that lots of high scoring kids go to schools that may surprise you. He walks through how Michigan and other big schools have far more students scoring in the top echelons than you would have imagined. I'm wondering if anybody has done something similar for smaller schools further down the popularity ladder. It seems that he only looked at schools larger than 2,000 but there are SLACs that are smaller than that.

It seems to me that there are probably some schools that have high admit rates but also have a pretty solid composite SAT score. But common wisdom says that SAT score would drop with selectivity. (There's another thread I just saw about a parent who is worried that if her kid attends a "2nd Tier" SLAC, she won't be among her intellectual/academic equals.)

Has anybody seen an analysis that would shed some light on whether that mom's concerns are true? The Colleges That Change Lives book talks about how these schools tend to have a broad range of scores among their freshman class, and that this is a positive thing, not a bad one, with respect to the classroom experience. But the book doesn't provide data to support this view.

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