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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it's reported on the CDS. I dont think you can make the 25/50/75 artificially high - they are what they are.  But it's moved them up a lot in the last few years, for sure.  Common advice first two years was not to submit unless you're at 50% level or above.  So everything shot up. [/quote]

That’s what “artificially high” means. When a school doesn’t report scores for more than half of the admitted students, what you are seeing is the 25-50-75 for only the top half of the class. To really know what percentage you are seeing, you need both the percentage reported in the cds, but you have to know which categories of admitted students they don’t include at all (satellite, first year abroad, gap year, certain programs like NYU liberal studies). All of those excluded from the stats are people who will graduate with degrees from the college just like the 75th percentile kids.

Don’t be discouraged from applying by looking at those numbers. And don’t be deluded that your kid will be in a classroom full of people who aced the SAT.[/quote]

Aced the SAT? Weird phrasing.

The SAT is becoming LESS relevant each admissions cycle.

Get used to it.[/quote]

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