<p>Just as suspected, at 32% vs 8%, Chicago has much more students from the Midwest than Duke, so it makes sense then that a larger percentage of the admitted student body would have forgone taking the SAT and instead chosen to send only ACT scores. Interestingly, Illinois is the one state in the Midwest where the SAT is more popular, that 32% is still a very big number. The links provided by david05 show Chicago having a higher ACT average as well, so overall, Chicago first years DO have higher scores than Duke’s. My guess, though, is that Duke has more recruited athletes and so this can account for the lower scores. Yes, I’m aware that not all recruited athletes are academically below normal standards, having met quite a few very academically strong and brilliant ones myself, but the students with low scores and such more often than not are recruited athletes. This will prob be my last post, seeing as I refuse to continue to feed the ■■■■■, but I want to thank happyman2 for providing me with a mini research exercise this morning. I have more questions as a result of what I found, but I’ll leave it at this for now and go enjoy my summer.*</p>
<p>Here are the sites I used for the demographics:
[Duke</a> University Admissions: Class of 2015 Profile](<a href=“http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2015profile.html]Duke”>http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2015profile.html)
<a href=“https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml[/url]”>https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml</a></p>
<p>One of the first sites I stumbled upon, showing that the ACT indeed is more popular in the Midwest:
[SAT</a> and ACT Test Popularity | Which test is more popular?](<a href=“http://www.studypoint.com/ed/sat-and-act-test/]SAT”>SAT and ACT Test Popularity - Which test is more popular in your state?)</p>