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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know what the 'minimum' GPA and ACT/SAT cutoffs are for Bowdoin and Middlebury?  Do most kids applying interview on campus?  Thanks.[/quote]

Most colleges don't have "minimum cutoffs" but you can see where accepted kids fall by percentiles. So, for example, the 50th percentile SAT might be 2100, which means the average kid at the school has an SAT of 2100 (I'm just making this up, obviously, but you see how it works).  There will be a whole distribution of SAT scores of admitted kids, so a kid at the 25th percentile might have SATs of 1800 and a kid at the 75 percentile might have SATs of 2250. Generally, you can compare your own SATs against this distribution, and general wisdom is that if your SATs are at the 75th percentile of accepted kids (i.e., your SATs are 2100), then you have a decent shot. There are no guarantees in this game, ever, but being at the 75th percentile means you are in the running. If your SATs are in the 25th percentile of their distribution, then this school is a "reach" for you.[/quote]

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