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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure what the issue is. The flagship schools in the big states - like California, Texas, and Michigan - tend to vacuum most of the great in-state students. And a 1350 from a shit school in Flint or Waco or Salinas is much more valuable than a 1550 from GDS or Sidwell or choose your privileged school. [b]That 1350 from a difficult school shows resilience and talent and discipline. [/b]Texas, Berkeley, UNC - to their credit - are all focused on in-state students. Michigan will take more OOS students, but it remains primarily focused on in-state.

For the OOS students, you need to be a little extra special, but most importantly you need to be willing to pay twice as much as every other student at these schools.

And these realities are distorting when compared to the high endowment private schools. Harvard and Texas-Austin have different priorities. [/quote]

No! it doesn't! It shows test taking ability (and a 1350 is a lousy score from a private high school) The BOTTOM 25th percentile at UVA has a 1410! Test scores are not indicative of resilence or discipline! GPA, course rigor and class rank are more determinative of that. Please don't comment if you have no idea what you are talking about![/quote]

From their School Profile, Georgetown Day School's SAT range in 2019-2020, back when just about everyone was taking it, looked like this:

Subject, middle 50%, mean
Reading and Writing, 665-740, 696
Math, 635-760, 691

So 1350 is in the middle 50% for an elite school, which suggests that it is, in fact, a quite good score by the standards of private schools.

UVA is trying to pull a fast one on you. 1410 marks the 25th percentile of *submitted* scores. About 40% of students don't submit any test scores. The true 25th score is much lower, I would hazard a guess of it being in the loser 1200s.

For what it's worth, statistical data suggests that high academic test scores correlate with everything nice. So you have some screw-ups that scored 1600 on the SATs, but fewer, proportionately, than 1500, and the 1500s have fewer screw-ups, proportionately, than the 1400s, and so on. [/quote]

Wow this is news to me, UVA accepts students with 1300/low 1400 SAT scores? [/quote]

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