How competitive is Stanford?

kyledavid80
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:49:55 +0000

a positive correlation between each SAT section and college first-year-grades.



There is not a perfect correlation. And even then, a student who performs poorly on the math but does will in CR and W will probably do well in college if he/she doesn’t take any math courses. So that point is moot. (Not to mention that data isn’t on how Berkeley students fare in comparison to their SAT scores. In fact, a study by UC showed that SAT isn’t that good an indicator of success in college, which is in part why Berkeley de-emphasizes the SAT.)



here aren’t that many people who get 800 on the critical reading section, but a 300 on the writing.



And that’s a huge difference. I’m talking, say, 720 in CR, 700 in W, but a 600 in M (I know many with such scores, in fact).

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.