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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ that was from my eye-balling of the graph in the NYT article. No score applicants fell around 1300 SAT applicants, as far as college GPA for the schools in the study, which I believe were about 15-20 elite colleges.[/quote]

Oh actually, it’s a lot lower than 25th percentile. [b]1300 is 1/4 of the way from 1200 to 1600[/b] (the range), but I wasn’t paying attention to the density of the datapoints. Probably closer to 90% of scores were higher than 1300 for those schools during that time period. But that’s where the no-test applicants landed as far as their success in college.[/quote]

No.  I keep saying this but the SAT scores are nonlinear. A 1350 is probably closer to a1600 than it is to a 1200.  A 1200 is ~68 percentile.  A 1300 is ~89-90 percentile.  THIS is why splitting hairs over what seem like big absolute differences at the high end really is useless.  [/quote]

For competitive schools, the medium scores are useless because they are so low percentile. Those hairs being split at the high end are still far more students than the highly competitive admissions schools can admit.

1500 is 98%ile
MIT admits 99%ile of the population (per whatever it's selection criteria is, including luck), and not all of them. [/quote]

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