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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trinity College: 
[b]9%[/b] submitted an SAT score 
25%-50%-75%
1340-1385-1453

The conventional wisdom is do most likely submit if your SAT is above the 25% and definitely submit if it is above 1385.  I am surprised at how few submit and how low the SAT scores are.  From these numbers it doesn't appear to be that selective.

Even Conn College has a higher submittal rate: 54% submit.  Its SAT scores are lower, 1160-1280-1400.  But still not "overly" selective.

Wesleyan's is 41% submit.  1300-1420-1500.  Definitely more competitive, but not like most of the private colleges in the T50 in national universities.

It looks like the quality of student is not as high as one would expect.  Is it a function that the high scorers gravitate to research private schools?  While not a SLAC Tufts has a higher quality student on paper than Wesleyan. (Same for other NE privates like Harvard, MIT, BU, Northeastern, BC, etc.)
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As has been discussed on this board several times, the data Wesleyan reports on its CDS reflects the test scores of all matriculating students who sat for a test, not just those that submitted a score with the application. All incoming freshman must submit a score whether they did so with the application or not. Consequently, theCDS range skews “lower” than other comparable TO schools (if you think Northeastern, BU, and BC are materially better, I don’t know what to tell you.) To get an idea of what the distribution would look like for admitted applicants who submitted scores, I would suggest you look at Wes’s very detailed class profile information on the website. I offer this not to rebut this stupid argument that test scores are the single measure of student quality (get bent NoVa mom) but to inform applicants considering applying TO. This seems like an anti SLAC post in sheep’s clothing anyway. [/quote]

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