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Not really? You'd have to normalize across _all_ applicants, otherwise you're putting applicants from countries with a harder curriculum at a disadvantage. 98th
by yifanl 7y ago
Not really? You'd have to normalize across _all_ applicants, otherwise you're putting applicants from countries with a harder curriculum at a disadvantage. 98th percentile from X doesn't mean the same as 98th percentile from Y.
- OJFord 7y agoBut X and Y universities are being compared on prestige anyway, so the ancient and revered Y's 98th percentile has already beaten X's 100th. I'd have thought (with no admissions experience) that 98th percentile at an unheard of university is more meaningful than 4.3 points out of 5 from the same.