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<p>No…just, no. I’m in the top 2% of my class at Duke and I know people smarter than me that ended up at UVA for financial reasons. UVA won cross-admits with HYPSM from my HS. </p>
<p>I know you’ll post SAT ranges to ‘refute’ that, but realize that averages and even IQR’s don’t tell you all that much about what’s going on at the very top. Indeed, an inter-quartile range in particular is supposed to be somewhat immune to the effects of outliers, i.e. the very top students.</p>