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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Rice, [b]94.3% of the class are not NMSF[/b].
25% of the Rice incoming class have 1570+ SAT score.

Make sure have your priority right.  Don't focus on things that are marginally relevant.[/quote]

LOL. NMSF is not extra effort if you have the capability of scoring 1570+ on SAT.[/quote]

NMSF is a widely different cutoff for states! in many states it is the same or slighly above the commended cutoff, in other words it is similar to a 1430. In about 5 states, the highest scoring states, one can miss 3 questions and not get NMSF. A 1570 can usually be achieved missing 4 questions, nevermind all the 1570 superscorers that  make it quite a lot easier than a 1570+ non-super-scored.

NMSF cannot be used to compare quality of students when the bar is so different across states. Instead, 1570 non superscored should be used but that is not a known datapoint. 1530 superscored is known and is in another thread. 
The colleges with the highest % of 1530+ superscored were MIT, CalTech, Penn, Hopkins, Princeton, Yale, Harvard I believe in that order.
Some ivies were not even in the Top 20 schools on that list.

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