ED Penn (CAS) / Dartmouth - Difficulty?

45_Percenter
Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:16:47 +0000

^ In a word, no. Their ACT/SAT ranges are, again, quite comparable. And the thing you need to understand is that none of these top schools base admissions decisions solely on SAT/ACT scores, and they don’t use a few points here or there on those tests to make decisions. Instead, they determine if applicants are within a general range of scores to qualify for admission–which the vast majority of them are–and then they move on to look at grades, essays, ECs, recs, etc. No admissions committee at a top school decides to admit one applicant over another because of a few points one way or the other on the SAT/ACT.

Again, average SAT/ACT scores are not a way to distinguish between Penn and Dartmouth regarding admissions selectivity in general, or ED selectivity in particular.