<p>huskem,</p>
<p>To answer your question, child #3 went to Harvard. Child #7 is going to Chicago in the fall. CC was a safety school for both of them, but they would have been happy going there if other schools had turned them down, I'm sure.</p>
<p>Now to the matter at hand.</p>
<p>If you got your MATRICULATING numbers from the CC common data set (I have not been able to locate that document on their website or anywhere else) please give a link. If you have a link to some secondary source that uses the common data set from CC as its source and that corroborates your numbers, that would be useful, as well. I doubt you'll find corroborating evidence.</p>
<p>Repeatedly, you have said that you have taken your numbers about MATRICULATING CC classes from such common sources as US News, and yet I can find no corroboration of a 1390 SAT average score from US News. In fact, here is a link to US News that places the middle 50% from 1250 to 1400, which puts the interpolated median at around 1325 <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/libartco/tier1/t1libartco.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/libartco/tier1/t1libartco.php</a></p>
<p>princetonreview.com cites the very same numbers as US News here: <a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/admissions.asp?listing=1023114<ID=1&intbucketid=%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/admissions.asp?listing=1023114<ID=1&intbucketid=</a></p>
<p>Yet, you have repeated that you got your numbers from US News as well as stating this previously on a different thread. Here are your quotes from that thread and the links.</p>
<p>The first quote:</p>
<p>(gellino- conn has an average 1390 SAT, trinity has like a 1310. conn's acceptance rate is in the low 30s, and in 2006 was rated the 26th most selective LAC in the country ... i can understand trinity not being there, but not having conn with bates and hamilton is ridiculous- <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=211418&page=6&pp=15%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=211418&page=6&pp=15</a></p>
<p>The interpolated median SAT score for Bates is 1345. Hamilton's is 1350. One can argue, and perhaps successfully, that CC's interpolated SAT score of 1325 is not that far behind, but I think one would have a VERY difficult time arguing the idea that it is "ridiculous for Bates and Hamilton to be included on a list of elite colleges when CC is not. At least, based on the SAT criteria on the US News and princetonreview.com websites, instead of the scores you presented (which appears to be a dead falsehood unless you can prove otherwise). </p>
<p>BTW, you were closer on selectivity, but still not accurate. This year's US News (see link above) places CC's selectivity as 27th, not 26th. And while one could technically say that the acceptance rate is "in the low 30s," a 34% rate would qualify only if "low 30s" is everything below 35%. I'd call it the mid-30s, but I'll give you that one on the technicality.</p>
<p>BTW, you were close on Trinity. They claim a median of 1303. </p>
<p>The second quote:</p>
<p>i took my numbers from the usnews, as well as from each individual nescac school site. this isnt the forum to discuss conn selectivity (again, i must reiterate that in 2006 it was the 26th most selective LAC according to the usnews), but i welcome your opinions, no matter what they are, on the conn forum. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=211418&page=7&pp=15%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=211418&page=7&pp=15</a></p>
<p>As you can see, you invited people over and "welcomed" our opinions. I'm not entirely sure what confirmed data have to do with "opinion," but here I am as you asked. I admit I did not expect to be accused of "conn coll" hate by you. I was merely trying to get the numbers straight ... a process you have tried to hinder with your questionable numbers and research.</p>
<p>Is the practice of not requiring SAT scores and then reporting the numbers as though they are comparable to those of other schools that report ALL SAT scores slimy? Yes. And I don't care who does it. </p>
<p>It would be quite easy to have an administrative assistant strip off the SAT scores of all applicants who don't want them considered for admissions purposes. The files could then go to admissions officers without the SAT scores. When the matriculating class is admitted, the SAT scores could be included on the common data set. Instead, the practice of not requiring SAT scores is a very well known means of inflating those scores for reporting purposes.</p>
<p>Do I think other school "slightly inflate their numbers?" Since the numbers are unaudited, I suspect there is a fair amount of slight inflation going on. You, however, appear to have inflated CCs average SAT number by approx. 65 points ABOVE the inflation already attributed to the SAT-scores-optional practice!!!!! To call that "slight inflation" is like saying a bank heist is equivalent to a parking ticket. Worse, you directly COMPARED CC's SAT numbers for ACCEPTED students to the SAT numbers at other schools for MATRICULATING students. </p>
<p>So here is what I've learned about Conn. There are people from there who are well-educated and rational, and who are careful about the data, such as woebegone. Children #3 and #7 would have enjoyed being in class with him/her. Then there are people like huskem' who have an axe to grind and use selective data to make invalid points. Either this was deliberate or the product of carelessness. Either way, #3 and #7 would probably have transferred if their classes had a preponderance of huskems.</p>
<p>So, which is it? What's the average student at Conn like? More like woebegone or huskem? Child #8 (the last one, thank God) may need to know.</p>
<p>PS -- Huskem: If my data are wrong, then I apologize and look forward to your rebuttal. At this point, I believe the probability that you are right to be very, very low, which is why I've taken such an aggressive tone. </p>
<p>I don't like being lied to.</p>