<p>Let’s take Cornell for e.g. Last year they had 40,000 application out of which 32,000 were rejected. That’s lot of rejection. I know they look at more than SAT/ACT scores but for sake of simplicity let’s say middle 50% ACT score is 30-34.</p>
<p>When folks apply and they don’t have unique situation, I would think they won’t be too far from the middle 50%.</p>
<p>Does that mean this high number of rejection comes even when applicants are close to 50% mark or people take chances with low scores such as score of 28,29 etc. </p>
<p>I’m trying to understand whether the folks who got rejected were because they were far from 50% or they were right near the 50% mark.</p>