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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Emory, less than half of the applicants submit an SAT score. Your SAT score is almost at the 50th percentile.

Phenomenal chance ED, great chance RD.

Sometimes I think posters here don't realize the CDS gives such clarity.[/quote]

Bottom quartile is 720V and 750M so 1480 is just over 25th percentile, not near 50th…still, the fact that a high percentage don’t submit is helpful.[/quote]

You do realize the 50th percentile SAT score at Emory is 1500?[/quote]

If 1470 is the 25th percentile and 1500 is the 50th, 1480 is closer to 25th than 50th.[/quote]

Obtuse much? The difference is statistical noise.  Fully 50% of Emory's students have a 1500 or below on the SAT.  That statistic  only includes the 50% of students who bother to submit an SAT.  If you think that Emory is going to look at 1480 or a 1500 as a difference maker, you are  just plain wrong.  A 1480 is a bonafie submit score for Emory, and an assured ED admit.  It is a high likely admit for RD assuming GPA and rigor math the score.[/quote]

You’re assuming that everyone who doesn’t submit is below the 25th percentile. However, for the past several years, many UMC kids have been told only to submit scores at or above the 75th percentile.

You’re also assuming that schools are interested in using scores to gauge the readiness of their applicants and not to boost their published ranges to look highly selective.

So, check yourself before calling others “obtuse”…perhaps your thinking is not the most nuanced.[/quote]

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