<p>It does give an idea of where your test scores fall, compared to other applicants/attendees. But that information is based on last year's applicant pool. And from what I understand, colleges consider test scores in the context of the current applicant pool, so would the middle 50%iles still be of any use?</p>
<p>On another note, how accurate is college board's middle 50%? For a few schools, it has different numbers than the actual schools' websites.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the second question, but as for the first, there is not much of a difference between one year and another amongst schools. No school is going to become that much more selective that their middle 50% isn’t still fairly valid.</p>
<p>Don’t look at the college board numbers. Google “common data set XYZ” where XYZ is the college you’re interested in. See the first year admission section.</p>
<p>@Crimson: yeah true, but for the ACT it seems like a larger difference than the SAT solely because of the larger differences between ACT points and SAT points. A shift from a 28 to 29 is (or seems like) a larger jump than from a 1900-2000</p>