"Why would you guess that Advantage scores are only 100 points lower?’
Because it only makes sense that Binghamton is going to offer this program to the strongest applicants that it doesn’t accept. I scrolled through last year’s threads about the program and found a student with a 1320/1870 SAT score but an 88 GPA and another who was offered the Advantage program and had also been accepted to Fordham and Buffalo. My guess is that most students offered the Advantage program are like these two students-good SAT’s but lower GPA or vice versa (or just a bit below accepted students stats). I think it’s presumptuous to assume that the Advantage students are below the 25% on all three sections of the SAT’s. Why would you think that Binghamton would need to offer this program to students whose qualifications are not even close to admitted students? Also, I would think that EOP students are included in a school’s reported SAT numbers as they are first-time, first-year students.
“Advantage students were either accepted or they were rejected. If accepted they count, live in the dorms and interact with other students. If rejected they don’t.”
The Binghamton Advantage students were rejected but are offered a path to transfer to the school. I’d guess the program has expanded as new dorm space has come on-line and supply exceeds demand. Hence, my earlier comment about the school perhaps overestimating the appeal that the new dorms would have with juniors and seniors who typically move off-campus (just a guess). In my opinion, the expansion of the program is driven by economics, rather than an underhanded way to misrepresent the quality of the student body as you believe.