Average SAT scores (not median ranges)

Applying to College
1

<p>When did colleges stop releasing average SAT scores? Is this data available somewhere and I am just unable to locate it?</p>

<p>TIA</p>

2

<p>Well the median is 25-75this percentile. Why don’t you average the 25 and 75I percentiles to get the 50th percentile?</p>

3

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<p>Many moons ago.</p>

4

<p>Why do you want the average? I’d much rather know the 25th and 75th percentiles. What I’d really like is to know the 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th.</p>

<p>But since the Common Data Set reports 25/75, that’s what you’re going to find reported pretty much everywhere.</p>

5

<p>Some schools will post their average SAT scores (sometimes in lieu of their Common Data Set) but you have to dig through their web site to find it.</p>

6

<p>NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, recommended years ago that colleges report the interquartile range of admission test scores rather than the mean score, as that is much more informative. Most colleges follow that recommendation, and the interquartile range is what most colleges report to Common Data Set </p>

<p>[Common</a> Data Set Initiative](<a href=“http://www.commondataset.org/]Common”>http://www.commondataset.org/) </p>

<p>data consumers.</p>

7

<p>Thank you tokenadult. </p>

<p>As to why I am interested. Well, I am just curious. Mean and median are two different things. The mean score might be well below the median score for very competitive schools whose median ranges are very close to the upper bound of the test.</p>