Ivy League Colleges Average Applicant

Applying to College
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<p>It is undeniably true that the accepted Ivy league applicant has a higher SAT/ACT score than the average Ivy league applicant. But are there any statistics published as to how many kids apply with a certain SAT/ACT score for ANY Ivy? I could not seem to find any. </p>

<p>What I did find was, for example, at Princeton 14.8% of applicants with a 2300-2400 SAT were accepted. <a href="http://admission.princeton.edu/applyingforadmission/admission-statistics"&gt;http://admission.princeton.edu/applyingforadmission/admission-statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>But just how many 2300-2400 applicants were there? How many 2200-2300? Etc.</p>

<p>Is there any published statistics like that?</p>

<p>Because, I think that sometimes we are scared by the low percentage acceptance rate, when it may be worth noting that a considerable number of applicants are BELOW the ACCEPTED average.</p>

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<p>Got to the schools common data sets. They will show at least percent of admitted students with different test scores. I think what you would find is a school like Harvard has a lot of marginal students who apply just to say they applied. This is probably less true at Yale or Princeton but definitely not all of the applicants have 2200 or higher SAT scores. If you look at the GPA vs ACT or SAT scatterplots you will see different patterns.MIT essentially only very high scores but more variation with other schools</p>