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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am OP and the school is not Duke! It is a small liberal arts college, ranked in the 40-50 range. [/quote]

So relieved!  Cuz Duke would have made you certifiably insane!

For the SLAC....
do you mean ranked 40-50 among SLACs? Like DePauw?
or 40-50 among national universities? Like Tulane?

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This is OP. This is a LAC ranked 40-50 among LACs, like a Dickinson. My DC’s stats place them well in the top 25th quartile for said college they like, it is a guess but probably in the top 5-10th percentage if that data was available. Doesn’t the fact you are asking, though, mean that you, too, make some value judgment about relative colleges? [/quote]

Ok---so 25% at Dickinson is 1383 SAT score.  That's still in the 91/91% of all students nationawide.  Not like your kid is picking a school where the 25% is 1000.  The difference between 90 and 98% is minimal.  [/quote]

Op again. DC has above a 1550, so the top quartile of 1383 is not even close. I realize the SAT scores are one small part of a student profile, this is just to give you a sense of my concerns. [/quote]

It's your concern but It appears your DC is not concerned.  Once again, the difference between 91% and 98% is not that much, so I don't really understand your concerns.  I would not be concerned at all.  It's not as if DC wants to attend a school where the average SAT is 1100 (that would give me a bit more reason for concern, as 1100 is 61% and that I feel is a significant difference from 98%). The 1383 is 91 % and is the 25 percentile.  75% of the students score higher.  Just look around you at your job---are you surrounded by people who all got 1580+ on their SATs?  My guess is probably not.  Yet you still function each day successfully at your job with the other people who are good employees.  If your DC thinks it's a good fit, go with it.  A school where most kids are at the 90th percentile is a great school . Suck it up and realize they don't want to attend an elite university---they are smartly picking the right fit for them.  Let them be happy and stop worrying about your bragging rights with friends/family

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ANd to add---the 25% is not the top quartile.  So that means 75% of kids are at/above the 91 percentile of SAT scores in the country. So 1383 is the 25 percentile, so the break between bottom quartile and the next level.  It is not the 
Top Quartile",  so 75% of students score higher.  I for one would prefer my kid be at the right fit over anything else. 
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