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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would suggest the dreaded drop off occurs around when the 75th percentile ACT score falls below 34.  A 34 represents the median student at top LACs like Williams.

So the top schools tend to be 33-35, then next layer 31-34, and then the descent into mediocrity begins.[/quote]

My 28 ACT kids goes to Georgetown. He’s briliant with an 135 IQ. Get lost. There’s a reason the best of schools are all going to drop testing.[/quote]

135 is brilliant? Why is IQ test any better than ACT?

I get that standardized tests aren't perfect but applied over a whole student body, I think it's an indication of academic ability.  It's not a coincidence that the highest ranked schools have sky high average test scores.  What I noticed with the LACs is that the top 10 or so are sky high, and then it falls slightly for the next 20, and then it starts to fall more substantially with low percentages of students (often well under half) reporting scores.  In the absence of any other metric, this is all we have to rely on in terms of understanding why students at Trinity are not quite the same as Middlebury, no matter what Trinity's website claims.

This was all in response to an observation someone else made that the student body ceases to be impressive with lower ranked LACs.  I was attempting to put some parameters around that.[/quote]

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