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[quote=Anonymous]Standardized tests (5%): U.S. News factors median test scores for all enrollees who submitted scores used in the admission process for the mathematics and evidence-based reading and writing portions of the SAT and the composite ACT. Both SATs and ACTs were converted to their 0-100 test-taker percentile distributions and weighted based on the proportions of new entrants submitting each exam. For example, if a school had two-thirds of its test-takers submitting ACT scores and one-third submitting SAT scores, its ACT scores would weigh twice as heavily as its SAT scores toward this ranking factor.

For the third year, the following two-year approach to the methodology was in effect:

By default, we assessed schools on their fall 2023 SAT/ACT scores if they were reported on at least half their new entrants.
For schools not meeting the first condition, we assessed them on their fall 2022 SAT/ACT scores (scaled to fall 2022 percentile distributions) only if they were reported on at least half their fall 2022 new entrants.
For schools reporting SAT/ACT on less than 50% of both their fall 2023 and fall 2022 entering classes – including test-blind schools – we did not assess them on standardized tests at all. Instead, for those schools we increased the weight of graduation rates an additional five percentage points, from 16% to 21%. This substitute was chosen because it was the statistic from the rankings formula that correlated closest to standardized tests.
A change from previous editions was that schools with eligible SAT/ACT scores received slightly more credit when based on a higher proportion of students who submitted. For more information, see the article, "A More Detailed Look at the Ranking Factors."[/quote]

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