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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most highly ranked schools have the highest score profiles and it gradually declines as you go down the list. It’s all just a sorting mechanism based on test scores (outside of hooks). It seems nearly impossible that an unhooked student can get into a T15 type school without super high scores. Ironically TO may have made the emphasis on scores more pronounced because unhooked students essentially need great scores. For all the yapping about curating a class, they are really just filling their classes when the highest scoring kids they can get. This shouldn’t be interpreted as meaning a high score automatically gets you in anywhere. [/quote]

Correlation doesn't imply causation.[/quote]

If if were true that you need really high test scores to get into T15, you wouldn't see score report percentages below 95%.  It's logical to assume that every TO admitted student had a test score below the reported median.  Given grade inflation, we know a limited amount about those students.[/quote]

I agree with that completely. My post was regarding the OP of the thread.[/quote]

OP here - I wonder actually if the rankings themselves drive the correlation and are in a way self fulfilling- people have individual preferences on the margin but everyone generally wants to attend the highest ranked school possible - so the higher the ranking, the more interest - and the most highly ranked schools end up with the highest test score profile - because all things being equal a school is going to prefer a high test score to a low one if it has an abundance of applicants from which to choose.

It’s also clear that schools recognize the competitive need to have a strong test score profile and within the context of their institutional priorities they make sure they are getting their numbers up as high as they can

At the end of the day test scores are the only objective statistic they have to work with to demonstrate their superiority [/quote]

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