<p>Is there anyway to know the admissions stats of applicants within the middle range (25-75%) SAT/ACT scores? I understand what the mid-range is for enrolled students, but it doesn't really tell you what your chances are for admittance if you have scores in that range. </p>
<p>Obviously chances are higher the higher you are in that range, but are stats published for offers of admission form within the range?</p>
<p>Brown is one of the few school that I’ve do that:</p>
<p>[Brown</a> Admission: Facts & Figures](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University)</p>
<p>All colleges on their Common Data Sets break down the enrolled students. In my experience few break it down by admitted.</p>
<p>Always consider, especially for top schools, that 40% of the class is recruited athletes, URM’s and legacies. That doesn’t leave many unhooked students in that range.</p>
<p>^ 40% sounds pretty high to me, but even if true, I would assume recruited athletes, URMs, and legacies are going to be distributed throughout the full range of SAT/ACT scores, not disproportionately concentrated in the middle half. If anything they’d probably tend to be most concentrated in the bottom quartile and bottom half because that’s where their respective “plus factors” would give them the greatest edge in admissions, crowding out non-hooked applicants with similar statistical credentials. </p>
<p>If you look at the Brown chart ^^, for example, it appears likely that a very high percentage of accepted students with sub-650 CR or M test scores are going to be “hooked”—and these make up roughly the bottom quartile of the entering class of 2012. But that still leaves about half the class to be made up of people scoring in the 650 to 750 range. While acceptance rates at this level are lower than at the very top level, they’re still relatively high; and obviously, acceptance rates are higher in the top half of this middle 50% (i.e., the 2nd quartile of the entering class) than in the bottom half of the middle 50% (3rd quartile).</p>
<p>Bottom line, I think it’s reasonable to conclude from these helpful statistics provided by Brown that while being in the top quartile in SAT/ACT scores is the likeliest path to admission for non-hooked applicants, it’s far from guaranteed; and statistically, being in the second quartile is only a little worse than being in the top quartile. Below the median, your prospects probably fall off rapidly as most of the available slots are probably going to go to “hooked” applicants.</p>
<p>This has been debated to death here, but one last time:</p>
<p>Michele Hernandez, nationally known private college admissions consultant located in Vermont. Author of the book A is Admissions: The Insider’s Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges and former admissions officer at Dartmouth College</p>
<p>“40 percent of every Ivy League school is filled up with special cases: athletes, minorities, low-income, legacies or development cases. They’re tagged, and schools lower the admissions standards a lot for those kids. So you got to know how to use those tags to your advantage. If you’re a legacy and you apply early to the school, you’ve got a 50 percent better chance of getting in.</p>
<p>[Dirty</a> Secrets of College Admissions - The Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-09/dirty-secrets-of-college-admissions/full/]Dirty”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-09/dirty-secrets-of-college-admissions/full/)</p>
<p>i know that on mitadmissions.org they tell you what percent of students get in who got certain SAT scores</p>
<p>I wonder if the kids that make below 650 are equally lower on both sections or if they are lopsided kids - say 750 math, 640 CR.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to the MIT data:</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml)</p>
<p>Stanford:</p>
<p><a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Page Not Found : Stanford University;
<p>last page</p>
<p>ca87: You just barely beat me too it but I may have found it on a different spot</p>
<p>[Applicant</a> Profile : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/basics/selection/profile.html]Applicant”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/basics/selection/profile.html)</p>
<p>Here’s Georgetown:</p>
<p>[Georgetown</a> University- Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying_firstyear_sdprofile.cfm]Georgetown”>http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying_firstyear_sdprofile.cfm)</p>
<p>It is not as detailed as the others.</p>
<p>Ok, I’m new to this forum and new to college search process – what are URM’s and legacies?
Thanks</p>
<p>URM - Student is Black, Hispanic, or Native American.
Legacy - Parent is an alumnus. In some cases includes grandparents, siblings, and graduate school alumni.</p>
<p>Here is Amherst: <a href=“https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/79194/[/url]”>https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/79194/</a> </p>
<p>“I wonder if the kids that make below 650 are equally lower on both sections or if they are lopsided kids - say 750 math, 640 CR.”</p>
<p>Yes, this is an often overlooked point. And it creates uncertainty in assessing the data and your chances. Take Brown. Who has a better chance of being admitted (all other things being equal): </p>
<p>730CR 15% admit rate
740M 15% admit rate</p>
<p>720CR 15% admit rate
750M 20% admit rate</p>
<p>800CR 28% admit rate
670M 11% admit rate</p>
<p>It is the biggest myth on these boards that’s there’s not much difference between a 750 and an 800 or between a 700 and a 750. Perhaps threads like this will put that to rest. Thread after thread is kids telling other kids not to retake a 750, when at many schools it doubles your chances.</p>