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mollieb: But if the students today are more qualified on average than students twenty years ago, which they appear to be in terms of SAT scores (modestly) and graduation rates (less modestly), then what of all of those "unqualified" people who were let in twenty years ago under the more "meritocratic" policies? Perhaps we ought to take away their diplomas.
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how does anyone have any clue what the SAT distribution is? does anyone report the mean SAT score?
Typically, only the 25%-75% range of SAT scores is reported. This enables a school to take 25% people of the class with low scores without hurting their US News Ranking. This is how the ivies can recruit athletes, legacies, and people with quirky life stories but no brain without it hurting their rankings. Also, I'll assume that you know about the "recentering" of the SAT scores and have accounted for this. An SAT score of 1400 in 1994 is the same as an SAT score of 1470 or so in 1995. (Couldn't find the exact conversion, but I think this is accurate.)
Also, is it possible to fail out of the Sloan School? I don't think so. If Business is suddenly the #4 most popular major, could that explain the higher graduation rate?
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