Wondering when the colleges report out 25th to 75th percentile scores of last accepted class, whether that reflects Superscoring if indeed school has a policy of accepting Superscores? Or does that number reflect highest single-sitting composite scores? Universities do not specify!
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The ranges should reflect superscores, if the school superscores. You can always contact admissions and/or institutional reporting and ask.
Do schools actually provide ranges of combined scores? In their CDS’s, for example, they only list ranges of component scores.
Well if you were a college, wouldn’t you want to show the highest score possible ?
SS. Yes.
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Some fill out the composite line, some don’t. Sometimes the data is also on the school’s website, or the student newspaper’s website.
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If and when they did combine the component/section scores, there’s then the question of how they did it. Did they suprescore? If so, what do those 25%ile and 75%ile numbers really mean? And so on.
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Very little if test-optional - as they only represent whatever (small) percentage of enrolled students, who had felt their scores were at least average, or clearly above, compared to the previous year.
It doesn’t represent the majority of people who applied, or possibly isn’t even very representative for those who were admitted.
Instead it’s the 25% percentile of the top nn% of applicants (who submitted scores).
If the ranges are coming from the CDS, they are for enrolled students.
I agree with the rest of your points re: how little we can glean from this info at some schools.
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