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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good. There may not be much difference between at 1500 and a 1600, but a 1200 does speak to the ability of a kid with a great GPA to succeed in a competitive college environment [/quote]

There is no reason a college environment should be competitive.

Did you read the article? It's saying the opposite. Dartmouth wants to find people with SAT scores below 1400, and they were frustrated that their target audience wasn't taking the SAT. [/quote]

That’s not what the charts show. They correlate non-reporters with a test level of 1400. And the “crossover point” on admission advantage was 1400. Implying that there were less advantaged students with 1400s who didn’t submit, but would have been admitted if they had. They’re saying they’d take a less advantaged student with a 1400 over an advantaged student with a 1600.

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Do you think non reporters would have scores all exactly 1400, or a range of scores above and below, or nearly all above, or nearly al below?

And do you think those scores, if known, would have the same or different correlation to GPA as the reporters? [/quote]

I can’t copy and paste text for some reason, but pp. 5-7 explains how they identified 1,000+ less advantaged applicants who scored 1400 or more who didn’t submit scores and were not admitted, and submitting scores would have improved their chances of admission.

The report isn’t long and is worth a read.

https://home.dartmouth.edu/sites/home/files/2024-02/sat-undergrad-admissions.pdf[/quote]

Interesting read indeed.

The 1400 test scorers from the cushy UMC suburban enclaves are in trouble.[/quote]

If SAT score are the best predictors of success, as some say, then those kids from the UMC enclaves will have no trouble transferring in later after these low scorers fail out. Guess we'll see in a few years how this plays out.[/quote]

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