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The purpose of the SAT is to be a unbiased barometer; say what you will about it, but everyone takes the same test. Unfortunately, a 4.0 GPA from an obscure hig
by qmalxp 11y ago
The purpose of the SAT is to be a unbiased barometer; say what you will about it, but everyone takes the same test. Unfortunately, a 4.0 GPA from an obscure high school may tell you very little about a candidate.
I don't know how much admissions officers care about 96th versus 99th percentile, but if someone has an otherwise amazing resume yet ranks in the 40th percentile on their SAT, that's a bit of a red flag.
- falsestprophet 11y agoYou can see from class profiles of leading schools that they admit at least 75% of their class from the 99th percentile.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoOnly reason I got into Stanford is, they make (made?) a point of offering admission to all the 99th percentile each year. I was one of them. However there're only a few hundred of these nationwide, right? Not enough to fill several leading schools.
- epmatsw 11y ago3.3 million high school graduates this year, so wouldn't the 99th percentile be the top 33k of them? Seems like that would be more than enough to fill Stanford and the Ivys' classes.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoAh. There were two rankings when I took the tests - math and language. Those ranking 99th in both were offered admission. That was a smaller group.
- epmatsw 11y agoInteresting. They must have stopped that before 2009 haha.
- JoeAltmaier 11y ago1983