<p>Cd, your statements are not credible because they are not comparative. They provide no other information than the scores alone. You can convince yourself all you like that "scores rule," but this is so far off the present 2007 reality that it's not funny. The fact that students "are scoring higher" (and they are: there have been articles about that recently posted on CC) does not mean that those students are being admitted or will be admitted <em>because</em> of their scores. (Correlation does not equal causation. That's been said to you many times, but you're in love with a data point that is meaningless without other data points that test just how important the initial data point is.)</p>