<p>On many college websites I have seen an SAT score range in the common data set and then another SAT score range on the admissions website that differed from the one in the common data set. For every school, the common data set's SAT score range is lower than the one on the admissions website. Both ranges are from the same year. Which range is the more accurate SAT score range?</p>
<p>Common data set. It depends at what college you are looking at but the one at admissions could be all admitted students while the one in the common data set could be all the students who chose to attend the college. Also, the common data set has to be correct (it’s submitted for college rankings) while the admissions website is inherently biased towards the college and they can use tricks to mess with the ranges.</p>