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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think any AO differentiates between applicants with scores >1550 - they are get a ✓++ on that... Then all 1500-1550 are ✓+, 1400-1500 are ✓, etc...

AP scores, GPAs, recognitions, etc.. are what differentiates those 1550-1600 kids.[/quote]

[b]The statements that start "I don't think" [/b]are the ones that give me pause here...
Have AOs discussed this openly? 
I do agree that most of the differentiation occurs beyond the test scores, especially at and above the 75th percentile for a school. [/quote]

Agree.  The differentiation (a 36 or 35 ACT, for example, or a 1580 or 1600) is important to colleges because statistically, it is a fact reportable to most ranking services and one of those factors reported to alumni every year ("once again, X college had a record number of applications and our selectivity rate has gone down even more" (OK that result was actually due to marketing but a lot of alums don't understand that) [b]"We have a record no. of 16 students with perfect SAT scores", etc.)[/b].  The top scores are so important, in fact, that many second-tier SLACs have scholarships just to nab those students.  My DC was offered large scholarships at three of these.  When DC scored a 34 the amount offered went up from that offered at 32, and then went up again when DC hit 36.  So it does matter.[/quote]

My thinking is that 1590 is actually the best score. There is a possibility that 1600 would be viewed either

1) Negatively as a sign of extreme test prep
2) Turning down 1600's because they can say "We turned down a record 20 students with perfect 1600 scores

Just wild guesses.[/quote]

Utter Nonsense.[/quote]

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