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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, duh?  Did anyone think that Harvard and the like were really selecting for the most intelligent students?[/quote]

+1, at least for the white applicants.[/quote]

Oh really?  Average SAT scores of admitted applicants by race at Harvard:

Asian-American 767
White 745
Hispanic American 718
Native American 712
African American 704

Source: The Harvard Crimson[/quote]

Out of 800 per subject. Can’t do out of 1600 because it was out of 2400 some years.

On a test scored out of 1400, the average Asian-American got 767?  I really find that hard to believe.  Do you have a link?[/quote][/quote]

It's out of 800.  And that's quite a spread from top to bottom.[/quote]

If you think >5% is "quite a spread" I can tell you weren't a math major at Harvard.

/ps before you yell read the post back in the thread you have to double the scores for the percentiles so yes 63 >5% of 1600.[/quote]

+1. GTFO people. Learn about math before you comment.[/quote]

I can't decipher the above comments really, but yes, it is definitely the case that there is a world of difference between a 767 and a 704 score, despite the fact that one is only about 9% higher than the other.  In terms of population percentiles, if you want to do it that way, it's about 1st percentile vs 7th percentile.  Both of those are stratospheric relative to the average joe.  But at a top university you kind of expect everyone to be in the first couple of percentiles, so you really can drive a truck through that gap in that context.[/quote]

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