<p>I can’t find any published data on Bowdoin’s ACT.</p>
<p>What should one score at/above that it would be helpful to submit them?</p>
<p>Any replies are most appreciated.</p>
<p>At the Bowdoin info session per the admission committee representative, an ACT score of 30 was mentioned as mid point, in other words, 25% score higher and 25% score lower.</p>
<p>That's only of the students who choose to submit standardized tests, I assume.</p>
<p>Should I not submit a score of 29? Will that hurt me, or not affect much -except that students who submit their tests have a slightly higher admit rate - so in that case if a 29 is roughly 50% it might be slightly beneficial?</p>
<p>Daffymom, a midpoint is the 50th percentile, so half the students -- not 25% score higher and half score lower.</p>
<p>I would submit an ACT score of 29. It shows that you are close to the median which puts you above about 45% of admittees who submit their scores. If you don't submit your scores, Bowdoin is likely to assume that they are quite a bit lower than they are . .</p>
<p>actually, I believe the way Bowdoin reports scores is that they release the mean of the middle 50th percentile - they throw out the 25% of the best scores, and the 25% worst scores, then they give you the midpoint of what is left.</p>
<p>So it's not necessarily the midpoint:</p>
<p>For the scores of
1 , 1, 2, 4, 500, 500</p>
<p>Bowdoin would report an average of '3'</p>
<p>whereas the actual midpoint of the scores is 168</p>
<p>That way people scoring really high and really low don't throw off what the "average score" actually is - too many 1600s or too many 400s (for an SAT example) could move the average in the wrong direction.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure they use the same system for the ACT.</p>
<p>If its any help I got 30s in reading, math, and writing. 26 in science. I don't know if Bowdoin gives importance to the reading and math section, but if they do it can only benefit me. </p>
<p>Any other opnions? Submit a 29 ACT score with 30s in math reading and writing?</p>
<p>Getting down to the wire here, so any responses are most appreciated.</p>
<p>bump.....=/</p>
<p>I am submitting my scores...</p>
<p>Composite: 30
Reading: 35
English: 34
Math & Science: 26</p>
<p>I am submitting mine. They're the same as equilibrium's except w/ a 33 in reading, but, still a 30 composite.</p>
<p>I talked to a Bowdoin Admissions Dean and he said that their most competitive applicants have 31 or 32. I guess it isn't in my benefit.</p>
<p>Remember that when you omit your scores, the admissions department is likely to assume that they are well below the median . . .</p>
<p>when you don't submit your scores, the admissions department doesn't assume anything. They simply don't consider your scores.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that Bowdoin scrutinizes your academic record more closely if you do no submit your scores because there is less evidence of your qualifications. Whether stated or simply implicit, it would be only human to assume that the person who does not submit scores has scores that are below the median . .</p>