Can Anyone Explain This?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Why is Stanford's 25%-75% range for ACT scores 26-31? Is this mind boggling to anyone else?</p>

<p>For comparison:
Brown: 27-33
Yale: 31-34
Harvard: 30-34
Dartmouth: 29-34
MIT: 31-34</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Percent submitting SAT scores: 97% Number submitting SAT scores: 1,586
Percent submitting ACT scores: 23% Number submitting ACT scores: 383 </p>

<pre><code>ACT Composite ACT English ACT Math
30-36 71 68 69
24-29 27 28 28
18-23 3 3 3

       25th percentile      75th percentile

</code></pre>

<p>SAT Verbal 670 770
SAT Math 690 780
ACT Composite 29 33
ACT English 29 34
ACT Math 29 34</p>

<p>Also, Stanford has a lot of recruited athletes; it may be that they pull down the lower quartile of Stanford's enrolled students.</p>

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<p>Hmm. Collegeboard's page must be out of date.</p>