How competitive is Stanford?

kyledavid80
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:51:14 +0000

the 25th percentile of enrolled Berkeley freshmen who reported scores had an SAT score of 1780. Hence, if that’s the 25th percentile, then it would seem to me that a significant fraction (i.e. maybe 15-20%) of enrolled students would have scores of 1700 or less.



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.

And even then, superscoring makes a difference too.