SAT better than ACT at Princeton

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I’d always believed that this was true, but with nothing other than the dubious words of adcoms to support the claim and with data pointing in a different direction, I’m skeptical.</p>

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<p>What data?</p>

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<p>^ The one in the original post, of course. The acceptance rate for those without CEEB (Collegeboard) scores is 5.7%, while the overall acceptance rate is 10.1%. Part of this can probably be attributed to internationals, but they have access to the SAT as well.</p>

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<p>I thought that that could be accounted for by the fact that international students may not submit the SAT/any CEEB tests and they have a much lower admit rate than usual.</p>

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<p>There is currently a thread in the Harvard forum regarding an issue nearly equal to the one under discussion here. In post #21 of that thread, I posted some statistics regarding the issue of the statistically demonstrable slant in favor of the SAT.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/573451-how-many-people-get-into-harvard-has-sat-2400-a-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/573451-how-many-people-get-into-harvard-has-sat-2400-a-2.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

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<p>I agree.</p>

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<p>The SAT is open to internationals (isn’t it required?) but the ACT is not popular at all outside the US.</p>

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<p>Just to throw something out there, Princeton invented the SAT as an entrance exam.</p>

<p>Eventually, when rival colleges began to use it, Princeton recognized a conflict of interests and let it develop into Collegeboard.</p>

<p>But you know, this was a while ago so it might be fairly irrelevant.</p>