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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recommend that you don't use superscoring in this analysis.  Superscoring seems like a public relations gesture to stressed out students.  Rather than something that really impacts a lot of candidates to get them admitted.  And you don't have any data on what improvements are typically seen with superscoring.  Any assumptions might be quite off.[/quote]

Here's the thing..the percentiles are based on single sittings. There is random variation in scores that a single student will get--even without additional prep--and superscoring provides students the ability to use only the "upside" of this variations.  In an analysis like this--where you're looking at the highest achieving students who are going to be disproportionately taking the test multiple times and getting professional test prep, super scores are going to make a big difference. If you look at the "user group percentiles" for single sitting, scores from 1490-1520 are in the 97th-98th percentile. It only takes 10-40 points to move them to 1530 (99th percentile).  A large number of kids are going to take the test multiple times and super-score their way there.

So--while I don't have a strong feeling about the "merits" of super scoring, I think in an analysis where you're trying to estimate the number of kids who have a certain score vs their percentile, you have to distinguish between superscoring and the single-sitting percentiles.[/quote]

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