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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't know the data.  Top schools are not all 1%.[/quote]

Brown's middle 50 percent of admitted students scored between 1480 and 1560 on the SAT.

1480 is in the 99th percentile.

Do the same for Grinnel. It's definitely lower.

What is the difference between 25 an 75 at Brown?  How many students applying to Brown above the 25th percentile were turned down in favor of lower scoring students?

Answers:  Brown could fill its class with the top 25%--but they don't.  Hell-probably top5%.  Why?  Brown finds other points attractive.  Athletics, celebrity, URM.  [/quote]

Brown graduate here. In my experience, the top 5 percent (or even less really) were academic superstars and recognizably so. There was another 25 percent the bottom for a variety of reasons: taking it easy, burnt out from HS, ultra wealthy and could care less etc etc. The rest were pretty indistinguishable from each other in academic potential. All smart and capable students with a range of interests and personalities. Could you tell the 50th percentile admit from the 75th? Not really.     [/quote]

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