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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The average SAT score nationally is 1028. The average ACT score is 19.

There are some states - Texas, Florida, Michigan, Rhode Island, Idaho, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, New Mexico, Colorado, and DC - the lowest - that don't even break a 1000.

But students from those states are being penalized for scoring in the 1300s and 1400s.

Any student from DCPS that scores above 1300 is a hero and a bright kid. And those scores should count in context.

TO has distorted everything. Good for Yale and Dartmouth and MIT for requiring scores. A 1350 from Anacostia and similar means a lot. And it's time to stop punishing smart kids from poor schools. TO has been a disaster for them. [/quote]

This. Exactly. All these small-minded posters who think they're 1500 kid didn't get in because some dumb kid who didn't have to submit their scores did are completely missing the point. Finally, incredibly bright students with 1300-1400 and 31-32 scores can have the opportunities they deserve. TO skewed the scores so high that they became irrelevant. Reinstating levels the field--for everyone--not just high-scoring, highly-tutored white kids. 1600s are really not setting kids apart from 1400s. The AOs understand this so much better than bitter DCUM parents.[/quote]

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