<p>are the middle 50% sat scores on the collegeboard website from the class of 2013 (students who were just recently accepted)?
if not when do they usually update them?</p>
<p>The information you find there now would be for the class that entered in 2008 at the latest. The info comes from a survey that colleges send in after October of each year for the freshman class that started in Aug of same year. For class entering 2009, colleges won’t even start submitted the survey info until after October 2009. </p>
<p>USNews is essentially the same. The current info on its sight is for class that started in 2007 and it will update in August 2009 using info for entry class of 2008.</p>
<p>Beginning in Sep/Oct 2009, you will see middle 50% ranges published on a particular college’s website that are likely to be different from what you find at CB or in USNews because the college will be using its entry class of 2009 figures before CB or USNews ever gets them.</p>
<p>Check the websites of the individual schools you are interested in. For example, American University has already updated its website to include the profile of the Class of 2013.</p>
<p>Here’s my FAQ: </p>
<p>CURRENCY OF COMMON DATA SET INFORMATION </p>
<p>Each school year the colleges officially count their new freshman class AFTER the school year begins. (One college admission officer told me near the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year that his college counts on the tenth day of class in the new school year, which I think is industry-standard practice. Whatever the date, usually each college does this on the same date each year.) Sometime around the turn of the calendar year (that is, in January during the school year) a college’s figures for that freshman class begin to be posted on the College Board website, and possibly on the college’s own website in the form of a Common Data Set filing. So what you see early in the school year on the College Board descriptions of colleges is mostly information about the entering freshman class that entered in fall of the PREVIOUS school year (for example, information about new enrolled college students from high school class of 2008 is available to applicants in fall of 2009). That is the MOST RECENT information you have to go on as you apply for colleges yourself in fall of 2009, as a member of high school class of 2009. It is always like this–there is always a built-in lag between the year you can look up and the year you are living in as a student. Sometimes colleges post press releases right after they admit a new class in the spring, but those press releases are not comparable from college to college in the way that Common Data Set information is.</p>