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[quote=pbraverman]I've always preferred "normal" to "average," and I have always considered the "normal range" to run, roughly, from the 20th to the 85th percentile.

It is tempting to use test scores to compare, because numbers are easily compared and there is no grey area about whether 60 is better than 40 — it simply is. As a PP notes, school admission offices are generally very savvy about weighing the non-numerical parts of an application. If a school works well with "average" students, and most schools do, then "average" students should do fine there. :)

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