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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SAT is such an overrated measure, as in, the expectation that every school have like a 1500+ average SAT. Here's some historical averages from 2012 of various schools:
Amherst College                                                1320-1530 
California Institute of Technology                        1460-1590  
Columbia University, Columbia College                1400-1570  
Dartmouth College                                            1350-1560  
Georgetown University                                      1290-1490   
Harvard University                                            1390-1590 
Johns Hopkins University                                   1310-1510  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology                1410-1570  
Stanford University                                           1360-1550 
University of California, Berkeley                        1250-1510  
University of California, Los Angeles                   1170-1430  
Williams College.                                              1310-1530  [/quote]

The SAT was scored harder then. I’m not sure where your 1600 scale scores are from but it wasn’t a proportional concordance. A 2300 SAT then is a 1560 now , a 2160 was the start of 1500, and a 1980 was the start of a 1400. Most elite schools had test quartiles from 20XX-23XX, and medians of late 21XX to mid 22XX (corresponding to 1500-1530 today). So not much has changed.

The test was even harder before that when it used to be on the 1600 scale. A 1350 was competitive for every top school. [/quote]
This is their data source: https://eduplan.us/reality-check-sat-range-25th-75th-percentile-for-enrolled-students-at-various-selective-universities-and-colleges-nationwide/

A 1500 is closer to a 2230-2280 according to the various concordance tables online. Nonetheless, the obvious here is that the SAT scores are MUCH smaller than they are now. For some of these schools, you're essentially suggesting a 200 point gap in the difficulty between tests, which is...well not justifiable.[/quote]

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