Are there any stats or info out there about students who are top 0.5% in nation with 4.5 out of 5 GPA or higher and top 99.5% or up SAT/ACT/PSAT?
What do you mean? Are you looking for a single list of top students? No, there isn’t one as far as I am aware.
Look at the common data set of any given college. That’s where you will find your answers.
Anyone else? If not any link then your own opinion? We always hear that top colleges only accept less than 6-15% applicants. I’m wondering what percentage of that is really in the race, what percentage of top students get rejected. When people say it’s a crap shot, is there a percentage of student for whom it is a realistic shot?
In what? What does this mean? Height? Body weight? Juggling ability? Pac-Man hi-score?
Academically. With GPA, COGAT, AP, SAT, PSAT etc. to show for it.
You could read the accepted/rejected threads for individual colleges. Perhaps you will enjoy one of these:
No one submits COGATs. Odd to request that info.
COGAT hahahaha
I was using it as a sign of consistent top scoring, not to send to a college.
I’m curious where you arrived at your “top 0.5%” claim. Do you have some sort of table for that? What data set are you using? @“Yalie 2011”
There are some students for whom it isn’t a cap shoot, but it isn’t based simply on quantitative stats. Assuming Malia Obama had good grades and test scores, I’m sure that any top school would’ve accepted her. Same for ***** ********* and **** *********, two excellent students who represented the USA in the Olympics. And you don’t need to be an Olympian or the child of the President to be a high probability applicant; you just need to possess an attribute the college values highly, and also have the academic stats.
@marvin100 I’m using 0.5% to indicate that I’m talking about students who have been consistently performing VERY high on all sort of educational testing and sit high on stairs of testocracy. Data for PSAT, SAT, COGAT, IQ, MAP, ACT is public knowledge and these students usually occupy top few spots in their schools.
@sherpa No dispute there but I’m asking about students with extremely good academics not extremely unique hooks. What percentage of college applicants are Olympians or kids of sitting presidents?
If your question is, Among the cohort of American students who have GPAs above 4.5 and test scores in the 99.5th percentile, what are the percentage chances of getting admitted to Yale? – no, there are no statistics. At least not publicly available. Maybe colleges keep their own data.
The fallacy of your question is that all it takes are grades and test scores to get into elite colleges. That is not the case.
I know that elite colleges want “well rounded student body” and has a “holistic lense” but my question is specifically about grades and standardized test scores. I want to know how elite colleges value intelligence, hard work and academic achievements?
It’s just that one reads so much about students with perfect stats getting rejected and devalued that you wonder if there are any stats or data out there that can be used to see what happens to our top 0.5% brain power.
What is the purpose of asking for this information? Judging from your screen name you are well beyond the application stage yourself. Are you trying to do research?
I’ve interest in starting a college admission consultancy and currently guiding few high school juniors as a tutor and consultant.
Then please don’t post as though you are the student yourself, which you seem to have done in other posts. That’s against the TOS.
First, you’d have to buy into the notion that grades and SATs represent “brain power.” Second, you’d have to discount millions of students who are devoid of opportunity because of family income or poor public schooling, who, for reasons other than “brain power” don’t have good grades or SAT scores. Your thinking indicates that you like to sort people in neat, organized lanes. “Brain power” and top-scoring aren’t a perfect overlap.
You are going about it the wrong way if you think that this information is important.
Ah, a made-up number.
Seconded. You’re not doing wonders for your credibility here, and if you’re starting a consultancy, well, you’d better pay serious attention to your credibility–it’s all you’ve got.