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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You have no clue what Obama's SAT scores were. [b]"Average" means that half the students scored higher and have scored lower. [u]Or[/u], if by "average" they mean "median,"[/b] then the person in the middle of the distribution scored 1100, with half the transfers scoring below and half scoring above. With both measures of "average," the shape of the distribution makes all the difference. In fact, it seems totally plausible that the 50% below "average" scored from 1000-1099 (would Columbia really take somebody scoring 500?) and the 50% above "average" scored in a broader range from 1101 to 1600 (1600 was the top at the time).

Also you don't know whether Obama had months of private SAT tutoring, which is now the norm in the DC area. Versus resubmitting his freshman SATs which maybe he took cold.

So stop stating your speculation as fact.

FWIW, Columbia in the 1980s was a very different place before the Common App boosted the number of applications (this is true for every college that uses the Common App, hello Brown in particular) and their Morningside Heights neighborhood cleaned up.

Another FWIW. [i]I'm a Wharton grad[/i] and while we have some wonderful alumns, we're forever being embarrassed by crooks like Michael Milken (he did discover philanthropy later in his life), the guy who launched a hostile takeover of Disney (forgetting his name at the moment), and now Trump.[/quote]

I have a hard time believe you are a Wharton grad that you don't know what average means.[/quote]

Yikes. Obviously you don't understand what "average" is. There's [b]mean [/b]and there's median. "Average" can be either in literature aimed at the general public. From the post above referencing 1100 it's not clear which is being used. When the distribution is probably skewed, like this one, median is often a better choice. Sorry if that's hard for you to grasp.  It's just sad when bullies like you  are dumb.[/quote]

Read your original post again and hopefully you can admit this time that you bumbled "mean" as that concept might be too difficult for you to comprehend.[/quote]

NP. The poster who said that the average of 1100 means (or could mean) that half the students fell above and half below is describing.....MEDIAN. The "average" (or "the mean") is a different measure. It's a rather simple distinction, but one that confuses a lot of people. (To throw another term into the mix, there is "mode." That would be the number occurring most often.)[/quote]

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