... but b/c this is a highly competitive school, those "small" differences matter. Looking at figure 1, where they divide by scores into 16 equal buckets, we ca

... but b/c this is a highly competitive school, those "small" differences matter. Looking at figure 1, where they divide by scores into 16 equal buckets, we can tell that the median was over 1500, so the space between say 1510 and 1600 has to express as much of the variation as the whole range to the left. Similarly looking at figure 5, the impact to your admission chances of moving from 1550 to 1600 is larger than the impact of moving from 1200 to 1400. In that context, 60 points is pretty significant.