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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Georgetown requires high SAT scores. Michigan does not. The quality of the student body demonstrably reflects that.[/quote]
And yet Michigan enrolls many more high-scoring students. So either Georgetown rejects high-scoring students in favor of lower scoring ones, or high-scoring students strongly prefer Michigan (or both).[/quote]

Michigan is test-optional. 100% of the student body has to submit scores at Georgetown.

Geez. People still try to compare test optional (where only ppl with high scores submit and a good portion are so low they can’t submit) with test required schools.[/quote]

No, I’m comparing numbers of students.

Georgetown has 1,239 FTFY students reporting SAT scores, with a 75th percentile score of 1530. That’s 310 students scoring 1530+

Michigan has 4,503 FTFY students reporting SAT scores, with a 75th percentile score of 1530. That’s 1,126 students scoring 1530+

1,126 is more than 3.5 times 310. As I said: “Michigan enrolls a lot more high-scoring students.”[/quote]

In other words, 70% of Michigan's students scored below 1370 on the SAT. That is Michigan's 25% SAT score.  There are 8,100 students. Only 55% submitted an SAT score. So 6,000 students out of 8,000 are low scoring sub-1370.

Not the flex you think it is, lol.[/quote]

lol no you can’t just assume that. The decision to submit is messy, you don’t know ex ante where the 25th percentile is going to be for your year and anyone below the previous year’s reported median is a possible candidate to not submit.[/quote]

Georgetown doesn’t even have a binding round. With their EA you can still apply to other schools. Michigan has 34,454 undergraduate now has an ED and an EA round too. Georgetown has 7,833 undergraduates and is test required.

They are so different. I can’t imagine a kid liking both. My kids only applied to mid-size schools with little to no Greek life and no heavy football culture. My nephews only applied to large public universities with big football. [/quote]

It's because of the ranking...that's the reason.  That's why the kid choosing between Georgetown and Michigan isn't choosing between Georgetown and Penn State, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, etc., or between Michigan and Lehigh, Villanova, Loyola, Boston College (though Michigan vs. BC kind of makes some sense), etc.

DCUM is filled with people asking kind of ridiculous college choices which only exist because people applied based on college rankings, and they are left with strange choices that make little sense.[/quote]

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