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Newsweek article about the SAT exam:
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Date: May 1st, 2008 7:15 PM Author: Grizzly galvanic tattoo roommate Subject: Exerpt about Harvard and 800 scorers. "This year, Harvard accepted 204 of the 721 students with perfect 800 SAT scores in critical reading and math—an admit rate of 28 percent vs. 7.1 percent for the 1,948 students accepted from a pool of 27,462 applicants."
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Date: May 1st, 2008 7:49 PM Author: Bearded multi-colored ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9718790) |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 9:21 PM Author: Curious hominid do they mean and or or? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9719259) |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 9:34 PM Author: Grizzly galvanic tattoo roommate Subject: I think they mean "and" - but its not clear. You have to reconcile it with this info in the Harvard Gazette on April 1 about the applicant group:
"By standard measures of academic talent, including test scores and academic performance in school, this year’s applicant pool reflects the level of excellence typical of recent years. For example, over 2,500 scored a perfect 800 on their SAT critical reading test; 3,300 scored 800 on the SAT math; and over 3,300 were ranked first in their high school classes."
My guess is that this means there were 721 of what used to be called "1,600-scorers," of whom 28% were admitted, I think there were 260 or so 2,400-scorers, of whom about half may have been admitted. |
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Date: May 4th, 2008 3:12 PM Author: Deep umber knife property you only "have to" if you're obsessed with this crap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9732618) |
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Date: May 4th, 2008 5:16 PM Author: Curious hominid hardly
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Date: May 4th, 2008 5:29 PM Author: Bearded multi-colored ticket booth sure thing, fonz. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9733202) |
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Date: May 4th, 2008 5:36 PM Author: Curious hominid np potsie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9733229) |
Date: May 1st, 2008 9:56 PM Author: Curious hominid Survey finds some colleges ignore writing portion of SAT. U.S. News & World Report (4/30, Ramírez) reported that, in a recent survey of college admissions officials, 32 percent of officials surveyed said that "[s]cores on the new writing portion of the SAT exam have no influence on admissions decisions." College Board studies have indicated that the test is "a good indicator of how well students will perform in college," but one official said that "she would 'like to see studies that aren't done by people with a vested interest in proving the test's validity."' Other officials "say the reason the test hasn't caught on is that their staffs are still learning how to use it in admissions decisions," and that changing the admissions process takes time. The survey of officials also found that "only 8 percent" of institutions "have lowered tuition costs for lower- and middle-income students," and that "[b]logs from current college students posted on the college's website and online chats have become two of the most popular ways for colleges to recruit applicants."
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Date: May 1st, 2008 10:57 PM Author: Grizzly galvanic tattoo roommate Understandably schools will have to study several years of data to see what predictive value the new writing portion has - by correlating scores received with the subsequent performance of students receiving those scores. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9719728) |
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Date: May 1st, 2008 11:24 PM Author: Bearded multi-colored ticket booth you forgot to answer the only really interesting question in the thread above. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9719866) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2008 4:42 PM Author: Bearded multi-colored ticket booth bothered and nycfan: long-lost crimson fuckbuddies, reunited by xo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=807501&forum_id=1#9728101) |