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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elon’s 25th-75th percentile SAT range is 1175-1330. UR is 1410-1500. Are we done comparing apples and oranges?

The smartest kids at Elon would be the dumbest kids at Richmond, to be crude about it. [/quote]

This is ridiculous. Really smart kids with very high stats are at every T150 school. Maybe they needed to stay in state, maybe they chased merit, maybe they won special scholarship at particular school, maybe they prioritized a specific major at a specific school, maybe they wanted to study under a certain professor, maybe they wanted to play their sport - so so many reasons that high achieving academic kids with great minds are at HYPS as well as Richmond or Elon or UVM or Rollins or whatever. The “smartest kids” are not that far apart at these schools. Likewise I know multiple Ivy athletes that are in the 3.1 GPA/1150 SAT pool. Everyone needs to stop assuming such big differences between schools. If we are talking about the T150 we are still talking about the top 5% of schools in the US. T30 and we are talking about top 1%. 
And that of course assumes you believe USNWR got the right 30 which as is regularly debated here is not a safe assumption and since USNWR changes their methodology each year to stay relevant who is top 30 is a crap shoot. So seriously asking why the obsession over “top” and “most prestigious” ? Why tear schools and kids down just to prove prestige? [/quote]

This is not a good point. Of course Elon has a few very smart kids who are there for one reason or another. And of course Harvard has dumb jocks. But you have to look at the typical student to draw comparisons between colleges. The typical student at Richmond is very intelligent and high achieving - not necessarily Ivy level but in some cases actually Ivy level. The typical student at Elon is just kinda smart. [/quote]

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