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> The top 100k university students Can you tell me which universities these students go to, or other attributes about them?
by laidoffamazon 2y ago
> The top 100k university students
Can you tell me which universities these students go to, or other attributes about them?
- mgraczyk 2y agoAround 2 million people take the SAT every year. A score of 710 on the reading portion gets you into the top 5%. So there are ~100k students who scored 710 or higher on the reading portion of the SAT. Those students are the ones I'm talking about. I claim that anyone who can score a 710 on the reading portion is above the level of capability that the author of this post is complaining about. Some evidence for this claim, a score of 710 would put a student in the top 10% of a "regional public university", but the same student would be in the bottom 10% of Harvard or MIT students (probably would not get in with a 710). In other words, the author of this article is complaining about a capability level which is the overwhelming majority of his school, but ~0% of the students at the best schools.