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You have [b]no clue[/b] what Obama's SAT scores were. "Average" means that half the students scored higher and have scored lower. Or, if by "average" they mean "median," then the person in the middle of the distribution scored 1100, with half the transfers scoring below and half scoring above. With both measures of "average," the shape of the distribution makes all the difference. In fact, it seems totally plausible that the 50% below "average" scored from 1000-1099 (would Columbia really take somebody scoring 500?) and the 50% above "average" scored in a broader range from 1101 to 1600 (1600 was the top at the time).

Also you don't know whether Obama had months of private SAT tutoring, which is now the norm in the DC area. Versus resubmitting his freshman SATs which maybe he took cold.

So stop stating your speculation as fact.

FWIW, Columbia in the 1980s was a very different place before the Common App boosted the number of applications (this is true for every college that uses the Common App, hello Brown in particular) and their Morningside Heights neighborhood cleaned up.

Another FWIW. I'm a Wharton grad and while we have some wonderful alumns, we're forever being embarrassed by crooks like Michael Milken (he did discover philanthropy later in his life), the guy who launched a hostile takeover of Disney (forgetting his name at the moment), and now Trump.[/quote]

Yes we do. Obama wrote it in his own book. Most likely his SAT is below the average of 1100.

In his first book, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama describes himself as a lackluster high school student whose mother criticized him for being a “loafer” (142). He describes his attitude toward schoolwork as “indifferent” (146), calling himself a “bum” who abused drugs (138) and who partied all weekend (165).[/quote]

Seriously? As someone who works for a research institution even you probably respect, this type of sloppy reasoning drives me nuts.

GPA and SAT scores are different things. You can be a good reader and get a low GPA (because of not handing in assignments or studying for tests) but high SATs because you have the vocab and the math only goes up to pre-calc. In fact, if you're on the slow math track and you take pre-calc right before you take the SATs, you're pretty much golden.[/quote]

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