GWU class of 2014 ENROLLED students SAT range

lizmane
Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:31:55 +0000

when I examined data from other schools (close enough to be GWU’s peers) that published detailed breakdown of SATs etc for ED admits (close to 100% yield), enrolled students, and admitted students, I found that the ED stats are very close to the enrolled students stats (a bit lower, but pretty close), while admitted students stats are anywhere between 50-80 points higher (out of the SAT 1600 scale) than the enrolled class profile.

So, if a candidate is applying to ED, looking at the enrolled students stats will give him/her a very good gauge of the ED competitive pool.

Furthermore, schools are trying to put together a strong ENROLLED class profile (these are data that gets published for common data sets, various college application sites, etc). As such, if a candidate is admissible vis a vis ENROLLED class profile, and show a LOT of interest in school (GWU cares a great deal about this), then measuring against the enrolled student SAT not the admitted student SAT profile will give a candidate much better ideas about where s/he stands.

caveat: no admissions officers verified this thinking. However, based on everything I learned so far, this seem like a logical assessment.