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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]31 is bottom for the top.  Probably 25th percentile or lower for top 50 schools.  Middle for the next 50.  Great for the next 3000.  Doesn't that work out to be about 96th percentile for all colleges too?  You will find many wonderful schools happy with that number.  Just not an Ivy unless you can sink a jump shot.[/quote]

I think this is a pretty accurate assessment, except that I'd only say it was 25th percentile or lower for the top 25 or so schools.

I make this comment on a lot of posts here, but I think the best way to figure out whether a score is generally competitive for a particular school is to google the Common Data Set for the school, and look at the info in section C, which includes the 25%-75% percentile ranges of scores for admitted freshmen.  Here's UVA's: https://avillage.web.virginia.edu/iaas/cds/cds1516all.shtm  A 31 is solidly in the middle.

If your school offers Naviance, that's even better since it gives you the ability to see how many kids from your school with a similar test score and GPA got in to particular schools over the last five years. [/quote]

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