I feel like I kinda got screwed

Applying to College
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<p>Please kenyon, please read your own post...61% range includes, gee 30!!!! Wow!!!! So how in the world can that be low for UChicago, your killing me</p>

<p>Do you know math at all? Don't think so...see the range 61% of its students are in the range of 30-34!!!!! And that range include, gasp, 30 on the ACT, so getting a 30 puts you in the range of 61% of accepted students, isn't that what I showed you? How can a 30 be low...</p>

<p>A 30 is not WAY BELOW</p>

<p>I am frustrated at your posts because you put down the original OP with your opinion, not the facts</p>

<p>In fact, your links just reaffirm what I said</p>

<p>WAY BELOW- WHAT? , 30 was in the range easily for Chicago, so lots of students got above the 30 and lots and lots below</p>

<p>I realize that scores are not everything, but when a poster is wrong in the numbers game, that should be pointed out</p>

<p>If they don't get how stats work, they need to learn</p>

<p>From your site, honey,</p>

<p>Mid 50% ACT 28–32 for chicago, isn't 30 right in the middle there abouts</p>

<p>for Grinnel:</p>

<p>Median ACT Composite Score: 31 </p>

<p>The median is the value so that roughly half of the data are smaller and roughly half of the data are larger.</p>

<p>So 1/2 the scores were below 31, while 1/2 were above, so how in the world is a 30 way below what they take, when you look at the numbers, a 30 is just below, not way below the median</p>

<p>The bickering is because kenyon said the OP act scores were way below what UChicago and Grinnell accept, and they are not, a 30 is well within the range of scores the majority of students at uchicago get, and only 1 point below the median score for Grinnel, if 1 point is WAY BELOW, I would be shocked</p>

<p>Way below, I would guess would be something like 25, not 30</p>

<p>If you don't have your information correct, don't state something as the truth, and learn some math and some stats, it will help</p>

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<p>just use your brain for one sec granny, do you think majority of the uchicago 61% got 30 on act? i dont think so, if the median for grinnell act is 31, shouldnt you assume uchicago would be higher or at least equal? and with applicants of a few thousands, shouldnt you assumed that hundreds, if not thousands, would have act of 30? one point different may not seem significant to you but it is in this case, especially with scores over 30. take a look at the conversion chart act vs sat and tell me one point different is insignificant. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.powerprep.com/actvssat.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.powerprep.com/actvssat.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>No offense, but it's pretty late to be discussing college standards at this point when ummm, oh yeah, pretty much all seniors have heard by now whether or not they're going to college, so to have all this confusion and bickering over ridiculous test scores which don't really represent the qualifications of a student in a general sense, and scores which in the long run don't really matter because even a middling score should be fine enough in any school as long as you have other things that compromise to represent what a well rounded student you are.</p>

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<p>and when i said 'way below average.' it was subjective. one point different is significant to me so i emphasized that by using 'way' you, granny, might feel one point is insignificant and that's your opinion.</p>

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<p>tonyt88- i agree with you on that, it's pointless to be arguing about this but granny should just shut her face when she has nothing better to say.</p>

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<p>None of that now, everyone on this board does have their own opinion, and that's all it is - OPINION - so, yeah, college admissions was weird this year, no doubt, and schools are getting less and less score conscious seeing them become more inflated as time passes by. It's dumb to have tests anyway, I mean to be quite frank I had just a fair score on my SAT's but that didn't stop me from getting into some of the top colleges, so....</p>

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<p>Hi guys, this Kenyon is in no way connected to Kenyon College. He's from Grinnell and that's why he know the stats of Grinnell that well. He oh well, get himself this nick so as to imitate me which is kind of infuriating to me I guess. So like what citygirlsmom has said, ignore him...</p>

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<p>kenyon_10:why do you have to go around and discredit me like that? i actually go to uchicago not grinnell!</p>

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<p>My aren't we defensive</p>

<p>first its calling names</p>

<p>second its saying its an opinion</p>

<p>next its that 1 big ole point is WAY BELOW and huge difference</p>

<p>The numbers speak for themselves, your hyperbole and your name calling...very childish indeed</p>

<p>Anyway, my analysis of the numbers is correct, but go ahead, twist them to fit your hyperbole and insults</p>

<p>whatever you need to do to feel better</p>

<p>and by the way, granny here is a lot smarter than you guys</p>

<p>i checked with several people in the admin process and gee, that one point, you are holding onto for dear life, aint WYA BELOW either schools #s....but if it makes you feel bettter to believe that, go ahead</p>

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<p>citygirlsmom: whatever you say, you're the smartest granny around. you like younger girl by the way?</p>

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<p>"and by the way, granny here is a lot smarter than you guys"</p>

<p>That is really rude. How are you judging my intelligence?</p>

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<p>good lord...what has the world come to?</p>

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<p>cause granny is older, been to college already, worked, does her research, and it wsa directed to kenyon for calling me granny</p>

<p>don't mess with a mom</p>

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<p>older, but no wiser. let me tell you, if you're smart and mature enough you probably wouldnt be arguing this pointless matter with a 19 year old like me? '...very childish indeed' no?</p>