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I simply wanted to show that the Top 25% of many Top 20 schools is comparable in raw intelligence to the Top 25% at many Ivy League schools, making ANY ONE OF THESE TOP SCHOOLS an excellent place to pursue an undergraduate education for top students.
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<p>Bingo. Although some of them regrettably do not offer varsity hockey programs.</p>
<p>"I don't think Harvard has 400 slots (from 0-24%) for students who underperform academically."</p>
<p>Everything is relative, of course, and tokenadult is right about the difficulty of aggregating these SAT scores, but the bottom 25% at Harvard on each section of the SAT (considered separately) scores 700 or lower. That's still a high score, but it's not that high for Harvard. By contrast, ALL of the top 25% at Harvard scored 800 on CR.</p>
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overrated - UPenn, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Virginia
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<p>How are these schools "overrated"?</p>
<p>The difference in scores btwn these schools and their peers is not really material.</p>
<p>Otoh, they have a lot more highly ranked departments in the traditional, big majors than peers like Duke, WUSTL, etc.</p>
<p>(And remember, schools do help their average scores w/ merit schollies and such.)</p>