How do you determine a reach/match/safety school?

trackie10x
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:38:43 +0000

joecollegedad, the range is the 25th-75th percentiles, not just the one 50th percentile, so it’s the middle 50% of scores

as for perfect SAT/ACT scores or being valedictorian being automatic ins to the top schools, look at brown’s facts and figures page:

Undergraduate Admission | Brown University;

only 25.5% of people with verbal SAT scores from 750-800 were accepted
only 24.6% of people with math SAT scores from 750-800 were accepted
only 26% of high school valedictorians were accepted

you have to have much more than just test scores and a high GPA or rank to be accepted at the top schools.