lizmane
October 19, 2010, 10:51pm
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<p>A statistical analysis can be found in the manuscript "Voluntary Disclosure and the Strategic Behavior of Colleges, by Michael Conlin, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Gabrielle Chapman: <a href=“https://www.msu.edu/~conlinmi/SATvol...osure10-08.pdf[/url] ”>https://www.msu.edu/~conlinmi/SATvol...osure10-08.pdf</a> ; </p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from the abstract:</p>
<p>The data suggest that college admission departments are behaving strategically by rewarding applicants who do submit their SAT I scores when their scores will raise the colleges average SAT I score reported to U.S. News and World Report and rewarding applicants who do not submit when their SAT I scores will lower the colleges reported score.</p>
<p>In other words, if you see two otherwise identical applicants, one of whom submits a low SAT score and the other who does not submit, the school is more likely to accept the one who does not submit.</p>
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<p>I think this applies to class ranking also. This is precisely why “competitive” high schools no longer report their students class ranking, because reporting it disadvantages most of their students outside top % rank, who would have been easily in the top % ranking in lower performing schools.</p>