Leaning towards submit SAT scores outside middle 50%

Twoin18
Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:57:52 +0000

Unless the class make-up was impacted by deferrals: there’s always a difference between the stats of admitted students and those that enrolled, and its possible that the difference widened in 2020.

Of course the stats quoted by @hebegebe suggest that at many colleges the difference wasn’t noticeable. I agree the effect could be confined to a limited number of schools: Harvard has a waitlist full of equally qualified students on a pure stats basis. I’d look at schools which have a smaller class, like mid-tier LACs, where it can be hard to find enough full pay students for the college to make budget, and perhaps a few colleges in states which had more onerous longer lasting lockdowns that deterred OOS students (e.g. California).