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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The IPEDS data on admission statistics (accessible via the College Navigator interface) is reliable. The CDS data is less so, sometimes because colleges choose not to reports it at all, or because they use an unusual definition for what gets reported.
Bowdoin's and Bucknell's habit of reporting scores for all matriculating students, whether those scores were submitted with the application or not, is an example of this. Over the years this obscure difference in reporting standards has caused some to infer that, e.g. Bowdoin students are less academically distinguished than students at the WASP SLACS, or that Bucknell students don't match up to Lafayette students, when in fact they have exactly the same testing profiles.
The OP cited the correct 2022 IPEDS info for Bates: 17% of matriculating students submitted SAT scores, and 12% submitted ACT scores with their application.[/quote]

I don’t buy that IPEDs, which aggregates data from schools is more accurate than the numbers provided directly by the schools. [/quote]

DP: schools are federally mandated to submit the data each year to the NCES, which aggregates the data on the IPEDS platform. Interesting that there is a discrepancy. It’s possible that the data was entered incorrectly in IPEDS but more likely the college website is incorrect. Otherwise, schools are purposely provided false data to the government. [/quote]

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