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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you were an Olympian valedictorian with a 95+% SAT in the 1980s, you were very attractive to the top schools. The fact that today's swimmers have lower times than you did doesn't somehow undo the fact that your times were among the best in the country when you were competing and applying to college. Same for your SAT score. Exactly who is the Olympic swimmer who would get a higher score than you today who didn't take the SAT back then and would knock you off your perch at the top???

If you scored in the top 5% on the SAT as an Olympian today, you'd get in, just like you did 25+ years ago. Same thing for the URM first-gen Valedictorian saxophone prodigy from a low-income background who scored in the 90th percentile on the SAT in the 1980s. That person is getting in today just like she or he did back then. There are certain hooks that when combined with spectacular stats make for the ideal applicant in the eyes of the top schools. That was true back then and it's still true today. [/quote]

Top 5 percent SAT is a 1350.  That may get some kids into an Ivy but most with that score would be rejected.[/quote]

Sorry, 95th percentile is 1410.  Point still holds.  1350 is 90th percentile.[/quote]

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