<p>The median SAT scores seem way off compared to the ones people on here post.</p>
<p>So whats the deal?</p>
<p>It's just that the people here are way off compared to the median scores.</p>
<p>It shouldn't be outdated. I'm fairly confident they use data from 2007 admissions.</p>
<p>The thing is that CC posters tend to represent the very top applicants, and they tend to be the most paranoid about what's good enough for certain schools. A quick visit to the "What Are My Chances?" forum should clarify this for you.</p>
<p>Well I just searched for Yale on the collegeboard and it says the middle 50% for CR, M, and W is 700-800 for all 3.</p>
<p>So 2100 falls within their middle 50%?</p>
<p>Don't forget that there's always the top and bottom 25%s that you see posted.</p>
<p>CB has just recently updated a lot of their data, so I'd say now it's up to date.</p>
<p>And yes, 2100 in Yale's middle 50%. However, 2100 is also in Princeton's, and Princeton rejects over 75% of its applicants with 2300s. There are a ton more people who apply with 2100s than apply with 2300s, so even though its many times less likely to get in with the former score, the fact that so many try balances out the average SAT. Plus, one must assume the ~32% of admitted students who chose not to attend had superior scores to the ~68% that chose to attend.</p>
<p>Yes, some of the data is a bit outdated, if you compare it to the school's most recent CDS.</p>