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<li>What is the correlation coefficient? Is it significant?</li>
<li>What would the correlation be if you simply ranked the colleges by SAT score, and ignored all information about the departments? </li>
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<p>Is this “departmental ranking” a global ranking of reputation of colleges based on the prominence of the college -is reflected both in the SAT scores of the students while the USNEWS grad school rank is contaminated by halo effects, also from things like SAT score?</p>