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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan is a garbage commuter school. It should be ranked 75, not 25. [b]UVA has a 1550 SAT average[/b] while Umich is only 1250 average, how is UVA ranked lower? what a joke ranking.[/quote]

Wow you wildly overstate UVA's stats. There's no reason to make up an inflated number for a really great college like UVA. It's 75th percentile SAT score is just 1500 -- in other words only 25% of UVA students beat 1500. https://admission.virginia.edu/admission/statistics [/quote]

Accordion to prep scholar, UVA’s average SAT is 1365, while Michigan’s is 1415. The acceptance rates are both 27-28%. I don’t know where the Michigan bashing poster got his/her numbers. Even Harvard doesn’t have an average SAT of 1550; it’s 1520.[/quote]

Accordion should be according :)[/quote]

The initial post in this thread was a Michigan supporter trying to make a joke sarcastic post.  Sarcasm doesn't usually come across too well on the web.  There was no attempt to provide real numbers.  That said, I think the Prep Scholar ones you provided are not current or correct.[/quote]

From their actual websites:

Michigan: 1380-1540 (25th/75th percentiles)
UVA: 1330-1500

Michigan is a bit higher now, actually!

Let the rationalization begin from the Michigan bashers. :)[/quote]

That sounds about right.  The Prep Scholar numbers were wrong, though, and that was my point.  My other point, again lost, was that initial post here was a sarcastic Michigan supporter post.  You are trying to flip that fact around and make it appear as if it was a UVA supporter.

You can't directly calculate mean from middle 50%, but taking the midpoint usually puts you in the ballpark.  This would make UVA about 1395 (30 points higher than Prep Scholar) and Michigan about 1460.

If you went back a few years, William & Mary, Georgia Tech, and UVA were typically at the top of SAT scores for public schools.  One of the things that has happened is GT and Michigan have moved ahead and Berkeley and others have come up quite a bit.   So the landscape overall is changing, even though DCUM largely focuses on how selective UVA is becoming.  [/quote]

Something is not right with those numbers.  I realize they come from the website, but I got the following from the common data set:

Michigan: 
30-34 
1330-1510

UVA:
30-34 
1330-1500

Which makes them pretty even.  What would be more accurate, the website or the CDS?
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Do you see "final" on either website?  CDS is final, but don't have 2019-20 yet.[/quote]

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