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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll play lowest SAT- I think posted 1020 540 English 480 Math…. Graduated 1991. I was in top 20 percent of my class GPA-wise

Accepted UMD NYU VT PSU Pitt
Rejected Georgetown

Attended one of the state schools due to cost.  Never in a million years would I have been accepted to any of these schools today.[/quote]

SINce 1991, there’s been a huge grade and standardized score inflations.

I remember about 7 yrs ago, one of my coworkers said her niece is on scholarship with a 4.0 gpa.  Her plan was to become a medical doctor.  In the old days, 4.0 meant straight As and probably the valedictorian of the HS. When my own kid applied to colleges, I learned 4.0 means 70th percentile. The niece has since graduated and now works at the doctors office as a receptionist answering phones. [/quote]

The SAT was originally set to where the average score would be about 1000, but this was when only a select percentage of high school students were taking it.  By the 1980s, as the percentage of students taking it had increased significantly, the average declined to about 890 or so and there came a push to "re-center" the scores.   In 2020, the average score was 1051, which is primarily the product of rec-entering in the 1990s and 2000s.

Likewise, the GPAs of today are far higher due to weighting, the prevalence of AP courses, and general and well documented grade inflation over a long period of time.  Grade inflation is particularly prevalent in public schools in more affluent areas.[/quote]

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