Commended cut-off is 200!

standrews
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:56:31 +0000

In a 4-year period 2003-2006, the commended cutoff rose from 201 to 203. Now it’s back to 200. How how much did the state NMSF cutoffs increase in the same 4-year period?

Louisiana showed no increase, while Alabama, Florida, and Washington rose 5 points. The mean increase was 2.5, the median and mode were 2 points.

Will we see declines in state NMSF cutoffs in proportion to these recent increases? If for every point commended goes up, mean state NMSF cutoff goes up by 1.25, then a 3 point drop would amount to a 3.75 drop in state NMSF cutoff. If so a 3 point decline seems reasonable, but less in some states and more in others.

Data is here:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=2993607&postcount=662