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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is more complete Harvard information:

http://features.thecrimson.com/2013/frosh-survey/admissions.html

As noted recruited athletes have an average SAT score that is 173 points less than the overall average.

Harvard stop reporting average UREM scores years ago, but at last report the average was about 100 points less than the overall average.

These two categories alone cannot account for the many "non perfect" scores,[/quote]

25% of those admitted to Harvard scored less than 32 on the ACT.  There aren't enough recruited athletes to account for that.[/quote]

Oh, look!  At the very same link above, if you just click on the next tab to the right, you see the average SAT scores of Harvard admits by minority status. (They don't give your ACT stat, so I'm guessing you made that up?)

Hmmm, average AA SAT was 2107. Average Hispanic/Latino was 2167.  These are solid 95th percentile scores (http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-2013.pdf) and they translate to over 700 in each of the 3 SAT parts (math, english, writing), with some give or take to get those 2100+ averages.

Bet your SATs weren't as high as any of these! (Back in the day I got a 1580 out of 1600, perhaps that's why I can interpret facts like this for people like you....)[/quote]

Interesting, these were self reported scores/grades based on an e-mail survey.  I wonder how closely they mirror the statistics the university keeps and if it's a representative sample.[/quote]

Do you really think The Crimson would post them, if there was reason to believe they were wide off the mark?[/quote]

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