How competitive is Stanford?

sakky
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:16:38 +0000

You’re misinterpreting the data. What the CDS means is that 25% got below a 600 on CR, but they may have (and probably did have) much higher on the other two sections, etc. In other words, the CDS data is showing ranges for individual sections and not the composite SAT scores.



Uh, what you’re really positing is that the individual SAT sections are actually negatively uncorrelated (i.e. Pearson coefficient is negative). No evidence of this exists, and if anything, the correlation is actually *positive/i. Hence, my interpretation of the composite SAT percentiles is actually generous.



And even then, superscoring makes a difference too.



It may. But that’s not the point. The point is simply to demonstrate that a significant percentage of Berkeley students have relatively low SAT scores.