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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wesleyan’s web site also shows the SAT scores of all admitted students who submitted scores. It’s at the very bottom of the attached.  Note that it includes all admitted and not just enrolled.  So if a kid applies to Wes but they goes to Brown, they are included.  To me, this shows the best shot at actual admissions, and I am not aware of anyone else doing this.

The attached shows a median SAT of 1530 for admitted students. 25th is 1480 and 75th is 1560.

https://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/class-profile.html

I showed this to my kid with a 1500 applying to Wes, to suggest that one more sitting and maybe a 1530 might help. He told me now way.  Oh well!
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Most colleges show the stats of admitted students.  Invariably the SAT is HIGHER for admitted students than enrolled students.  It is a sleight of hand marketing ploy.  [/quote]

I see it as a better indication of who actually in. Common data set asks for enrolled not admitted so the median is not the median of who actually gets in.  That’s what a lot of college coaches will tell unhooked kids to aim for the 75th% of the CDS. [/quote]

I think some of you have lost the plot a bit. Yes, CDS is the best data for score distribution of admitted students. But the data is only good as what’s available. For example, only 39% of admitted students reported SAT scores at beloved Amherst according to its most recent available CDS. Amherst does not, to my knowledge, require all students to submit scores if the have them after admissions decisions have been made and before arriving. Presumably their distro would be wider if every student who sat for a test had to make it available to the school, unless all the whining about under qualified athletes, URMs, etc. taking spots from deserving applicants is BS (PS, it is). Other TO school’s distros skew higher and more narrow, at least relative to Wes, so get off of your sanctimonious high horse. [/quote]

With 33% recruited athletes and 21% FGLI, not all that surprising that they're serious about TO and have a pretty low submission rate. I'm not sure the 39% encompasses ACT submissions, which seem to have become more popular in recent years.[/quote]

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