<p>“2380 isn’t high for a 75th percentile admitted range”</p>
<p>Then what’s high? 2400? At some point, you hit a wall, right?</p>
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<p>no you’re wrong, you can’t just add up the 75th percentile for each section to get 75th percentile of all three sections. Amherst is almost certainly doing this calculation wrongly and misreporting on their admissions website. 1360-1580 is more like 1400-1540. On 2400 for admitted students it’d be something like 2120-2340. The difference between 75th at 2340 and 2380 is actually quite large, just like the difference between 2380 and 2400 for the 7th percentile would be large. That’s not to say it’s much more difficult to get a 2380 than a 2340, but to construct a class with 25% scoring higher than 2380 is statistically much harder than constructing one with 25% scoring 2340 plus.</p>
<p>yeah, you have to put into the equation a lot of super english folks that might be at the 90% in CR and WR, but 10% in Math, and vice versa.</p>
<p>so whereas the average per section might imply a 2380, there is incredible amount of fluctuation among students that makes having a 2380 75% relatively difficult.</p>
<p>the admissions website has 97% listed in the top 10% of their high school class, up from 93% last year. Either the applicant pool became significantly more competitive or columbia seems to have taken a page out of Penn’s book so expect a small ranking jump for USNews 2012.</p>