<p>Am I correct to assume if somebody is in the upper 25% for their SAT score and near the upper 25% for GPA, they stand a very good chance of being making it in to a school? Not Ivy League schools (I know it's not that easy for Ivy) but for other good schools. If you're in the upper 25% of what a school reports as their upper 25%, should we still worry?</p>
<p>schools look at other things, but i think you are at least a match for any school where you stand top 25% in all stats.</p>
<p>look at the overall admissions rate. If it's above 50%, then yeah, it's pretty safe. Probably the same for 40%. Once you get into the 30%'s it starts becoming a match, and below 20% is a reach for anyone. Of course, this is just a general idea, everyone has their own ideas. What school in particular are you looking at?</p>
<p>I would say that would be a pretty safe thing to assume for school outside of top 30 (and OOS public).</p>
<p>If it's a big public and your in the top 25%, it's a safety. If top 15% you should begin getting scholarship money.</p>
<p>If it's a school whose admissions policy is much more quantitative than qualitative (i.e. large, public), then yes.</p>