How competitive is Stanford?

sakky
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:30:22 +0000

No evidence of that exists, either



Uh, there is in fact a mountain of evidence that shows this. Specifically, one can simply look at the evidence that demonstrates a positive correlation between each SAT section and college first-year-grades. Hence, if each section is positively correlated with first-year-grades, then simply by transitivity, each section is positively correlated with each other.



But it makes more sense for a student to be accepted with lower scores in one section if the other sections are higher – especially since SAT scores are, after all, considered “important.”



And again, that presumes that large numbers of these people actually exist that exhibit such a negative correlation. Let’s face it. There aren’t that many people who get 800 on the critical reading section, but a 300 on the writing. Barring the possible exception of recent immigrants (which don’t comprise a large percentage of the pool), the same holds true for math vs. CR/writing.