Any statistics showing how many students with certain ACT/SAT got accepted?

[cottonmather]

<p>These numbers still don’t compute. </p>

<p>Perhaps T26E4, who seems to have official sources, can obtain information to explain the odd apparent discrepancies so that we don’t have to speculate. </p>

<p>As it stands, his original numbers need either modification or clarification.</p>

[T26E4]

<p>Sorry Cotton: That’s all I got. From a newsletter for alumni interviewers.</p>

[Aras999]

<p>I believe there is one on Wikianswers. just google it.</p>

[AleaJactaEst]

<p>from the article quoted above:

Last year, a New York university director acknowledged that the Common App cuts an inch off the margins of essays, but it wasn’t a big deal.

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<p>Is this true?</p>

[Descartesz]

<p>

Interesting, if true, that only 79%+ of Class of 2015 applicants submitted SAT scores, since the CDS form for the Class of 2014 reports that 89% of applicants reported SAT scores.

The CDS reports 89% of Class-of-2014 matriculants have an SAT score, whereas the applicant data applies, of course, to 2015 applicants. So we’ll have to wait for this year’s CDS to compare apples to apples.</p>

<p>

Also it is hard to believe that the yield rate was over 79% for those Class of 2015 admits who only took the ACT test.

There are possibly more exotic explanations for this, and some have been suggested already. However, consider this possibility: ACT-only applicants-turned-admits are likely to be from Midwestern and Southern states where it is more likely (I conjecture) that they were specifically targeting Yale as their preference rather than as one of a set of preferences. I conjecture that the latter is more likely to be the case for students who live on the East Coast, closer to Yale, and who are more likely to have taken the SAT.</p>

[fogfog]

<p>Our current 2015 student submitted the ACT.</p>

[Opensecret]

<p>Descartesz’s theory seems plausible to me, given the big regional differences in ACT and SAT test-taking. </p>

<p>In America’s mid-section, almost everyone takes the ACT, whereas on both coasts, most people don’t take it. This year the ACT was taken by 100% of HS graduates in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, and Wyoming, and 70% or more in Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklaoma and Wisconsin. Contrast that with California (24%), Connecticut (26%), Massachusetts (22%), New Jersey (19%), New York (28%), North Carolina (18%), Pennsylvania (17%), Washington (20%). Source: [2011</a> ACT National and State Scores | Average Scores by State | ACT](<a href=“http://www.act.org/newsroom/data/2011/states.html]2011”>http://www.act.org/newsroom/data/2011/states.html).</p>

<p>There may be other differences as well. Many believe that the ACT favors hard workers (who are likely to have the curricular knowledge it tests) whereas really bright not-so-hard-workers do a bit better on the SAT.</p>