<p>barrons, would you mind letting me know what place Hamilton came in?</p>
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<p>Colorado College: 24
Reed: 49</p>
<p>Timbit, I responded to you earlier that Hamilton was 21st</p>
<p>Colorado College is too high.</p>
<p>Oh, thanks, BobbyCT!</p>
<p>nothingcompares, it looks like Colorado College jumped up from #30 last year.</p>
<p>Oh, sorry I phrased that the wrong way… I guess what I meant was Colorado College is a good school, but I don’t think its ranking should be so low.</p>
<p>You are assuming a far larger correlation between GPA and SAT than really exists. Getting a high GPA in high school is largely a matter of diligence rather than brilliance.</p>
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I believe last year Amherst PA was 4.8, Williams 4.7
This year, Ephblog told Haverford to rate Amherst 1.5/5.0, dragged down the average to 4.6. Coupled with the financial calamity going on at Amherst, it will be a matter of time before Amherst and Haverford sit on the same perch.</p>
<p>Wow-- 273 posts here already and the issue hasn’re ven been <em>officially</em> released. We really are obsessed with the ratings, as flawed as they are…</p>
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<p>Intuitively, this works out. But I don’t think it’s true. This is why pure mathematics is needed. If it works for 75th percentile, then it would clearly work for the Xth percentile, where X is integer between 1 and 100. Out of 100 scores, 1% is lowest, so by your logic, lowest in CR + lowest in M is upper bound for lowest in (CR + M), which is not true.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the only things we can derive are: max(A) + max(B) >= max(A+B) and min(A) + min(B) <= min(A+B). Anything else is guessing.</p>
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<p>The average SAT score at Andover is 2063, at Exeter 2085; at Hunter 2131, at Regis 2133.</p>
<p>The average kid at Stuyvesant wouldn’t stand a chance at admission to a top university or LAC if she fell below the 50th percentile and was unhooked. She’d have to settle for City University with her “2100.” Admission to Stuyvesant is an illusory meritocracy: students are accepted based solely on their performance on a standardized test. You are gravely misinformed if you are under the impression that the SHSAT, or even the SAT, are predictors of academic success–in high school and beyond.</p>
<p>See the article: </p>
<p>[Harvard</a> and Princeton Top the U.S. News College Rankings - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/08/19/harvard-and-princeton-top-the-us-news-college-rankings.html]Harvard”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/08/19/harvard-and-princeton-top-the-us-news-college-rankings.html)</p>
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<p>You made a greater mistake picking Amherst over Harvard… *snicker</p>
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<p>I was implying that the East has been the power base of the old elite, and that the concept of prestige and pedigree have a peculiar grasp on the East Coast. I was alluding to wealth of the elite who reside on the East Coast, not to the size of the schools’ endowments.</p>
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<p>No, but I like Middlebury, and I am awesome, so what I say goes, okay?</p>
<p>The silly Princeton Review rankings have consistently praised Middlebury for “Best Overall Academic Experience,” “Professors Get High Marks,” “Happiest Students,” “School Runs Like Butter,” “Best Campus Food,” and “Best Quality of Life.”</p>
<p>Either Midd students are pitifully fooling themselves, or their administration is doing something right.</p>
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<p>Hey, kiddo–how about you and me, we transfer to Yale. Then, instead of telling people we go to a second-rate liberal arts school, we can tell them we go to a second-rate university.</p>
<p>The average SAT scores at the prep boarding schools are brought down quite a bit by the Internationals. Not that they aren’t smart, but due to language issues, they frequently don’t have top verbal scores. The “average” is a little misleading.</p>
<p>What I want to know is all of the ties are listed alphabetically except #8, where Columbia is listed before Chicago?</p>
<p>As if boarding schools have a lock on non-native English speakers!?! Where I live, the public schools have a much higher percentage of ESL students than the boarding schools. And the internationals at the boarding schools do much better in English than the ESL public students.</p>
<p>You are gravely misinformed if you are under the impression that the SHSAT, or even the SAT, are predictors of academic success–in high school and beyond. =kwu</p>
<p>on this point I agree wholeheartedly. But I also believe that many prep schools in the northeast and on Long Island TEACH to the SAT for four years. Memorization is a skill, but it does not replace depth.</p>
<p>JHS, Columbia University should come before the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>no shocks amongst the top programs. list makes sense except for upenn. as an old timer, didn’t realize penn had climbed up so much in the rankings. and i can’t recall washington getting much respect if ever. i suppose they’re both better programs than they used to be.</p>