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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When u cite 75th percentile of GPA & SAT, it really helps if u clarify if those refer to applicants, acceptances, or enrollees.[/quote]

If you are referring to SCHEV, those stats are gleaned from incoming students and published usually around October. . 75th percentile means 25 percent had higher; median covers next two quadrants, the bottom 25% are often but not always where the legacies . They are all enrolled students[/quote]

Look closely at percentage submitting scores.[/quote]

+1. Unless you look very closely, average test scores are extremely misleading for everyone but Ferrum College, which last year was still requiring all applicants to submit them.Ferrum's 75/50/25 of 1190/1040/920 looks pretty low compared to VCU's 1290/1160/1040, until you realize that barely a quarter of applicants submitted test scores to VCU. (Either that, or Ferrum screwed up their data submission.)[/quote]

This can also go for GPAs, as well. UVA reports that nearly 700 incoming freshmen didn't submit a GPA.  At the other end of the scale, the 75th percentile for GPA at Virginia Union University is 3.5. But with only 18 out of 232 freshmen submitting GPAs, that is definitely not their 75th percentile. [/quote]

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