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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read the article - it suggests 1400 AND being from an inner city high school or school lacking resources would get in. But NOT an upper middle class DCUM DS or DD with a 1400. Point being if you managed a 1400 without out all the resources and benefits you probably have the grit and intellect to hold your own. [/quote]

So go to a crap high school and get a middling score will be the new playbook?[/quote]

1400 is not a middling score.

Do you people know anything about standardized tests?[/quote]

It's a middling score for selective schools. 
It's probably high score for 3000+ other  schools.
Do you know anything about college admissions?[/quote]
No it isn’t. Historically that was a score that a number of admits had, or around that score. A 1400 is 95th percentile. A 1500 is 98 percentile, fyi. A 95 percentile score shows you can likely manage the work at an Ivy. [/quote]

Nope sorry.
1,400 is well below the 25th percentile for Dartmouth and other Ivies and highly selective schools.  
It's not even middling. It's a low score for highly selective scores probably from athletes, URMs, legacies, etc.

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Yes if you look at the current data that is skewed at all schools by TO the past number of years. Not if you look at data from 10/15 years ago. 
And what they are saying is that they would rather find the 95th percentile students from less well off regions who would thrive there than have the kids who don’t score as high but come from Bethesda and have a 4.0.[/quote]

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