<p>Report SAT scores higher than they actually have? I was at Georgetown and they reported both sections from 690-780, when they're actually 650-750 based on all sources including CB. Isn't that more discouraging for applicants than helpful?</p>
<p>Perhaps one set of numbers refers to admitted students, while the other refers to enrolled students? The enrolled student numbers tend to be lower, since the higher end students have lower yield (because they are more likely to have gotten into “better” (i.e. more selective) colleges and chose them).</p>
<p>Plus why would you value CB information over the college’s itself? How do you think they get the information?</p>
<p>Because it is straight from the source that produces the test and sends them. Naviance also puts these scores up and it’s a known fact that information sessions “stretch” the truth for their advancement.
Also, how plausible is that for the averages to change that dramatically for matriculated students?
FOr Georgetown, try were the only ones to show such inflated numbers. All other websites conquer in averages.</p>
<p>Yes they SEND the tests, they don’t produce information on acceptance themselves.</p>
<p>It doesn’t change the fact that all college websites concur on SAT/ACT Scores. I simply find it hardly plausible that the average student at Georgetown has a 1500 SAT Score. Seeing as most websites support this, and schools are known to lie in info sessions (E.G.: ED Doesn’t help acceptance) I was wondering their reason to give skewed information.
Bottom line, Its fine that CB MAY not be trusted, but it doesn’t take away that many websites concur with their scores and Georgetown’s own provided averages seem ridiculously high.</p>
<p>Neither College Board nor any other web site owner is compiling or analyzing data independently. They’re all republishing numbers that colleges and universities themselves have reported in their common data sets. </p>
<p>If you are seeing are differences in the numbers in different places, I suspect it comes from looking at the data sets for different years.</p>
<p>That’s what’s confusing me. 2011 scores (which is what they were showing me) were very different and I thought it was weird ecause all these sites were saying differently, and I know many get it from the university. Also, I wouldn’t think years would change too drastically, not that it matters in this case. Do you think they manipulate their numbers to produce a higher “average” because I don’t see why a school would release lower numbers everywhere if the higher ones would make them look more competitive.</p>