I haven’t seen this discussed over the past few months, but I’m sure it’s a question that’s been raised before, but…
Are the “average SAT” scores that private colleges report in their data the average score of an applicant/admitted student’s best combined scores? The UC’s only accept students’ best one sit score, so when they report their data to US NEWS for rankings, wouldn’t this put schools like Berkeley at a disadvantage? Also, wouldn’t this also skew the data given by schools that accept best combined scores? How is this factored into by US NEWS and other rankings that rely on formulae? When (UC) Los Angeles releases its statistical profile, does it take into account a student’s best combined score (which doesn’t make sense, considering the school doesn’t even concern itself with that, but then again, it would shiny up those numbers)?
Just wondering…
TTG