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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The switch in methodology really benefits large schools that are accessible to unhooked high-stats kids and affordable to donut-hole families. Like most smallish test-optional schools the actual number of high-scoring students at Wake is pretty small, similar to schools like Syracuse, Iowa, or KU. What Wake offers that those bigger schools don’t is the ability to exclude more students, and the sense of superiority that a low admissions rate seems to engender. Some people care about that. Others prefer a less expensive, less exclusive school with a much larger cohort of high-scoring students. [/quote]
Wow, I hadn't liked the new methodology but this offers much food for thought. Thanks for sharing[/quote]
They also offer a substantially larger share of low scoring students. There surely isn’t two people on this board who don’t understand percentages?  This has to be sock puppeting.[/quote]

Not everyone cares as much as you do about test scores and percentages. It probably has to do with subject of study. If you’re studying something that requires calculus, low-scoring students are not going to be in your upper-level electives, no matter how many of them are on campus. And the higher number of high-scoring students means the school can offer more of those electives. Meanwhile low-scoring students on campus may enrich your life in other ways. Test scores don’t capture everything, which is why Wake itself admits a substantial fraction of its class test optional. [/quote]

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