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See, this is where you are irrational. The quote refers to the 2009-2010 admissions cycle, which ended in May 2010 and the people from that cycle entered in Fall 2010. The class of 2014 is the one that just entered this fall, right? So you couldn’t possibly have statistics for a future class that hasn’t even been formed yet. So even though you do your mea culpa later, I point this out in the hope you will avoid this kind of thing in the future. Certainly I can understand confusing the median (the point where there are as many above the as below) with the mean, which is in fact the same thing as the average. You still got the terms wrong, but I know what you meant. The median could indeed be 1280 while the mean is 1249. That is not unusual, especially since the SAT has a floor of 400, I guess it is for the CR+M. In any case, at least now you know.</p>