<p>link is:
<a href="http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/peers/current/research_intensive/sat.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/peers/current/research_intensive/sat.htm</a></p>
<p>take a look at the top schools. OMG just think, 25% Harvard's entering freshmen class had 1590s and 1600s.</p>
<p>so? look at caltech! 75% of the class had 1460 or higher! lol</p>
<p>:eek: whoa... that is insane</p>
<p>Yup...CIT has them all smoked with an average of 1510 or 1520, I don't remember which.</p>
<p>I think it means more that 25% of the class at Yale/Harvard/big scary schools had about a 1400 or LOWER... so we can all stop worrying. Well, it probably won't make anyone stop worrying, but it DOES mean that scores aren't everything, and that's nice to hear.</p>
<p>is this a reliable source although it says ''source: US news''</p>
<p>okay, okay, calm down everyone.</p>
<p>US News does composite scores wrong. They get the 25th-75th percentile for each verbal and math, and then just add them together, which is very, very wrong.</p>
<p>Take, for example, the numbers I got straight out of Johns Hopkins' viewbook for their current class.</p>
<p>Verbal: 660-760
Math: 680-780</p>
<p>So, according to US News' method, the composite would be 1340-1540. Wrong. JHU was kind enough to also include their composite middle fifty percent:</p>
<p>Composite: 1320-1470</p>
<p>So, you can see that the 25th percentile is 20 lower than predicted and 75th percentile is 70 lower than predicted. </p>
<p>Therefore, if you're trying to get an accurate picture from US News' method, I would suggest taking around 50 points off of the top score for all the colleges with 1500+ scores.</p>
<p>oh, I was gonna say. I find it unlikely that nearly all of the 1600s of the world end up at harvard and princeton.</p>