About UCs- Yes, I know SATs are far from everything, BUT

<p>The article is for Registered Members of the LA Times only... :(</p>

<p>huh.. i'm not registered with la times and it worked for me.... hmmm...</p>

<p>well here's an excerpt of the beginning to give you an idea</p>

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The University of California admitted fewer students with low SAT scores to this year's freshman class than it did in 2003, following criticism that the university was accepting ill-prepared students in a back-door effort to boost enrollment of underrepresented minorities.</p>

<p>Overall, UC campuses in 2004 admitted nearly 2,200 fewer applicants with scores of 1000 or below on the widely used college entrance exam, a drop of 26.6% from the year before, according to a Times analysis of admissions figures. The national and state averages on the exam are about 1020 of a possible 1600.</p>

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<p>Critics of the university's past admissions practices found some vindication in the new data. They said the change showed UC had responded to complaints from UC Regent John J. Moores that it was accepting too many students with below-average SAT scores and possibly violating the state's ban on affirmative action.

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<p>"Breakaway, if this were true, then USC would be raising it's % admitted statistic, thereby hurting its prestige. That doesn't make sense. Also, of course USC is going to admit the students who are way above their target class. Since when do schools reject people for being over-qualified - except in extreme instances??"</p>

<p>Do you really think raising admitted percentage a small percentage is really going to hurt more than letting in a lot of 1500's with low yield just to bolster stats</p>

<p>i think for the great ucs the sat average last year was 1420 ......
and not 1200.... if you dont believe me why dont you try applying to the good uc's with a 1200</p>

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The University of Florida, for instance, as an avg. SAT of 1340. And you don't see U of F being spoken about in the same league as Berkeley.

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<p>sorry, not true. 1340 is the 75th percentile at UF, not median.</p>

<p>scroll down to page 10</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/cds2003-04.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/cds2003-04.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>some colleges advert facts such as that arent quite as impressive in context as they would like you to think.</p>

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The University of Florida, for instance, as an avg. SAT of 1340. And you don't see U of F being spoken about in the same league as Berkeley.</p>

<p>sorry, not true. 1340 is the 75th percentile at UF, not median.</p>