25-75 percentiles

Applying to College
1

<p>What do the percentile actually measure?
Is it the Scores of those who who were admitted or those accepted?</p>

2

<p>how 25% and 75% of those accepted stats look</p>

3

<p>That's actually a good question, I think it's accepted, though.</p>

4

<p>it is accepted, to the previous year's</p>

5

<p>Aight, so what if one of your SAT math is above the 75% percentile, but your CR is below the 25%?</p>

6

<p>top 10%?
average gpa?</p>

<p>a lot of things go into play</p>

<p>those are just general stats</p>

7

<p>for usnews 25% of enrolled students scored at or above the reported 75th percentile and 25% scored below the 25th. however, many school websites report these numbers differently. colgate and umiami only publish accepted student data on their websites, for example, in an attempt to look more selective than they are.</p>

<p>that said, i personally like the accepted data more when trying to determine ones chances at admission. on one hand it is inflated since it includes overqualified admits, but it also includes recruited athletes, early decision students and other special admits who tend to depress the enrolled average.</p>

8

<p>ya, i always look at the 25-75 because it gives a better look at the norm rather then the mean becuase that way it gives you lee way to what you could get and still get in. ok, fine, it makes me feel better.</p>

<p>but they are good to look at if you need to know where you're at</p>

9

<p>
[quote]
Aight, so what if one of your SAT math is above the 75% percentile, but your CR is below the 25%?

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Like what Akajjred was saying, what if my math was higher than 75% and cr was lower than 25% with average gpa (3.75) and top 9% for PSU (Smeal)?</p>

10

<p>Either ok chance or bad chance....the reason being is that, to be honest, the majority of the ppl applying have good scores in both areas, I don't know about PSU though.</p>

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<p>My experience from this past year is that if you fall at or above the 75% statistic you have a chance at acceptance. Anywhere else, it's a crap shoot. Falling at the 25%, good luck.... Maybe that represents the recruited athlete but it certainly doesn't represent the norm.</p>