Does SAT really not matter after a certain score?

[ucbalumnus]

@NiceUnparticularMan

But some looked notably better defined than others. And I interpreted that as the tighter colleges being more numbers-driven for our kids (in relative terms), and the fuzzier colleges being more non-numbers-driven (again in relative terms).

Some colleges could be numbers driven, but have fuzziness because they admit by major, and each major has a different threshold.

[NiceUnparticularMan]

@ucbalumnus

but have fuzziness because they admit by major

Absolutely. Or if they had different admissions for in-state versus OOS, or so on.

In the cases I had in mind, these were privates that did not admit by major, although I did look at Penn, which admits by school. Interestingly, Penn was a less fuzzy college for our kids anyway.