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Third to last question (not second) which says “Wesleyan will not require any matriculating student who did not take an ACT, SAT, or SAT Subject Tests to take exams prior to enrolling.” That means scores are not required.

As already mentioned, their SAT % per CDS is roughly 50%. Their ACT is roughly 20%.  Even if those are completely separate groups with no overlap (they aren’t), that’s ~70%.  If comparing scores to another school, also compare the % reporting. The magically higher bottom of their profile is silent on the % reporting, but the best explanation in light of the CDS is that the profile was averaged over a smaller and more self-selecting group.

Wesleyan is a great school and none of this changes that.  But of course the best way to compare school stats between schools is with the CDS.  That’s why it exists.

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I think part of the confusion in this thread is that a few schools (e.g. Wesleyan, Bowdoin up to last year) require entering students to provide all available test scores whether those scores were submitted as part of their application or not. The best way to confirm this is to compare the CDS data, which gives schools some flexibility about how they present their data, with the IPEDS data (accessible via College Navigator) which has uniform reporting standards.

So for Wesleyan's class entering fall of 2023, 
the CDS data shows that 52% submitted SAT scores, 
the 25/50/75 scores for SAT EBRW were 660/710/750,
the 25/50/75 scores for SAT math were 630/710/760,
while the IPEDS data shows that 28% submitted SAT scores,
the 25/50/75 scores for SAT EBRW were 720/750/770,
the 25/50/75 scores for SAT math were 730/760/770.

The difference reflects the obvious fact that students who don't submit test scores with their application tend to have significantly lower test scores than those who do. Reported scores from schools which show <50% score submittal rates (ACT+SAT) in their IPEDS data should probably not be taken too seriously. Amongst the highly ranked SLACS, most have score submittal rates in the 55-60% range (Amherst, Bowdoin, Colby, Hamilton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Williams) but some have significantly lower submittal rates in the 40-45% range (CMC, Middlebury, Pomona, Wesleyan).[/quote]

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