Ranking colleges by SAT scores.

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<p>Pomona comes out nicely on this list. </p>

<p>It is important to keep these in perspective. Very large universities’ top 1000 students are probably very close to the midpoint of very small high scoring universities. A Berkeley (which doesn’t use Superscoring, so add about 20-25 points to its total) with about 5000 entering freshman will have its top 1000 students very similar in scoring to the top 1000 at just about any of the smaller schools with 1400 as their midpoint.</p>

<p>Stanford and Northwestern (or fill in the name of any larger prestigious university), both being larger than most of the top scoring schools, would also see this broader range of scores.</p>

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<p>Just following up post #8. Here’s the difference between stats for admitted and enrolled for Northwestern (2007-08 stats):</p>

<p>Median (middle 50%) test scores of admitted freshmen
SAT Reasoning Test Critical Reading 690-770
SAT Reasoning Test Math 700-790
ACT 31-34 </p>

<p>Median (middle 50%) test scores of enrolled freshmen
SAT Critical Reading: 670 - 750
SAT Math: 680 - 770
ACT Composite: 30 - 34 </p>

<p>The difference is 40 points here. It can be more or less in other cases, depending on the school. So don’t confuse the two. :slight_smile:
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<p>What you really want to see are GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and MCAT scores. Also, grad schools understand the value of a degree from University X. University X, particularly if a state school, may output a superior product while intaking some dregs.</p>

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<p>The purpose of the thread is to rank schools by SAT scores, not to rank schools holistically, so your post is irrelevant and pointless.</p>

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<p>For Wesleyan, the scores should be as follows:</p>

<p>SAT Verbal 25th: 650
SAT Verbal 75th: 750
SAT Math 25th: 650
SAT Math 75th: 740</p>

<p>This is all according to collegeboard.com, which recently had Admissions fill out a form for the Class of 2011.</p>

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<p>What about Carnegie Classification Research Universities? Or Carnegie Classification Special Focus Institutions–Schools of engineering?
What about colleges where the majority submit ACT scores? Perhaps need another thread for those. But do they appear in these lists?</p>