Are average SAT scores released by colleges and on prepscholar superscored?

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Don’t know what prep scholar does, and I would not use secondary sources of data such as that site.

You would have to ask each college this question to really know. I do think that colleges that superscore tend to reflect that in their composite scores shown on class profiles–whether of admitted or matriculated students.

The CDS’s usually only show ACT composite (not SAT), which again is often superscored for schools that do that. Since most CDS’s do not show SAT composite, just EBRW and M, there is no opportunity to show superscores there.

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Prep Scholar scores seems to bear only passing resemblance to scores from the schools. I find this true of many sites (try Googling “top college SAT scores” and compare the values you find.)

I would think the SAT scores reported by schools on their sites conform to their admission process. If they say they superscore, then they’re probably superscored data. If they don’t, they’re probably not.

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Prepscholar is to be avoided as a source of data at all costs. It uses old data and then adds section scores together to create inaccurate composite middle 50 percentiles.

Go to the source, the colleges’ own websites.

The class profile is typically the most recent information available and most colleges will update their class profiles with their Class of 2023 stats by early fall. There are a couple of caveats to be aware of: class profile data is sometimes for admitted students and sometimes for enrolled students, with the latter being lower as a group than the former, so notice which one the profile refers to.

The Common Data Set, also located someplace on most colleges’ websites, is more standardized, with only data for enrolled students, so it’s easier to compare between schools. See section C9. However, the Common Data Sets have a time lag. Class of 2023 data (2019-2020 Common Data Set) will not be posted until next winter, after apps for 2024 are due, with some slacker colleges waiting all the way until next May, a full year after the admission cycle ended (e.g. Harvard). Common Data Set data is also available at NCES, though the NCES updates around late May/early June, so also a time lag (currently still class of 2021 data for a few more weeks). https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/