<p>Averages from WIKI Board</p>
<p>Status, SAT - M, SAT - V, Avg. SAT IIs</p>
<p>Accept, 777, 748, 780
Def, 766, 727, 757
Reject, 782, 682, 756</p>
<p>Well, from the data, it appears that a high verbal scores will only help you, whereas high math scores aren't as helpful. Maybe this is because high math scores are more common, and therefore less influential?</p>
<p>High SAT IIs appear to be beneficial as well...</p>
<p>Interesting data! Thanks! :D</p>
<p>also, people with high verbal may be better writers.</p>
<p>Haha very true :) </p>
<p>Correlation != causation</p>
<p>"also, people with high verbal may be better writers."</p>
<p>I believe that this is just an inference. I don't have a top-notch Verbal score compared to others here, but I still think that I'm a decent writer! I believe the SAT 2 Writing is a better barometer of one's writing skills, it would be interesting to compare those...</p>
<p>averages with more data points</p>
<p>Averages from WIKI Board</p>
<p>Status, SAT - M, SAT - V, Avg. SAT IIs</p>
<p>accept, 772, 749, 770
deferred, 760, 723, 762
reject, 757, 718, 755</p>
<p>Another interesting tidbit is that all 5 (or is it 4?) 1600 er's got accepted. What happened to the 62% of perfect scorerers get rejected statistic?</p>
<p>Actually, that's not right. I have a 1600 and I got deferred.</p>
<p>Well people who have accounts on this board knows a good deal about the college admissions process</p>
<p>Because I like statistics, and I want to take advantage of this whole "I'm in college and can do whatever I want because homework doesn't matter" mode, and I like using excel, I made a scatterplot of GPA v. SAT score from the wikiboard data. It appears that there are no distinct patterns.</p>
<p>Note that weighted GPAs have been disregarded.</p>
<p>42.857% of people with 3.96s or greater were accepted.</p>
<p>Feuler: that's awesome! We'd probably see a little higher correlation if there were weighted GPAs, since there are so many 4.0s. If we had more stats, I think it would be cool to do some probabilities based on certain factors, like the probability of being accepted given 3.5 GPA or 1350 SAT. That's what a lot of prospective applicants want to hear.</p>
<p>That might inflate people's ideas of their chances, because people who get deferred or rejected won't post.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's quite skewed. I don't think it would be useful unless we had better statistics, but oh well.</p>
<p>"also, people with high verbal may be better writers."</p>
<p>My verbal score is 120 pts lower than my writing score.</p>