<p>Aside from the SAT scores, which aren’t as prominent in the process as Kaplan and Princeton Review are telling you they are, what stats would you want to see?</p>
<p>GPA calculation varies so dramatically from school to school that we don’t bother with an “average” score and many schools are dropping rank completely, so even the percentage of students in the top decile stat is bound to be a little off. </p>
<p>The most important part of the application is the transcript, which is the combination of the strength of curriculum and grades. Testing is part of our review, but when I’m looking at four years of information in one hand and the score from a four hour exam in the other, I’m drawn to the transcript. </p>
<p>We’ve been telling people this for years. I think some want to make the admission process into a mathematical equation, but some of the factors being considered (curricular strength, teacher recs, essays, activities) can’t (EDIT: shouldn’t) be assigned a score.</p>