How competitive is Stanford?

sakky
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:03:20 +0000

Either way, you can’t say that x% students received below a 1700 on the SAT, when that’s patently not what the data says.



It is a simple inference from the data. After all, like I said, there is indeed a non-negative correlation amongst the various SAT sections. Somebody who does poorly in one section is probably going to do poorly in the others.

In other words, there is no reason to believe that somebody who got a mediocre score in CR is going to do better in the writing or math. In fact, he may well have done worse in those other sections.