<p>Class of 2015:
630 - 730 CR
670 - 770 M
650 - 750 W
1950 - 2250 CR+M+W</p>
<p>Class of 2014:
590 - 690 CR
640 - 750 M
610 - 710 W
1840 - 2150 CR+M+W</p>
<p>Geez. What’s up with that?</p>
<p>Compared to two other top publics:
Berkeley class of 2014: 1840 - 2230 CR+M+W
Virginia class of 2015: 1860 - 2180 CR+M+W</p>
<p>Michigan is an ACT state AND all colleges except either the ACT or the SAT so perhaps the hundred points, and I don’t now if that qualifies for the word massive, is that the kids that are taking the tests selectively…the ones that do well on ACT use ACT and the ones that do well on the SAT use their SAT scores.</p>
<p>The ranges you have provided are not accurate and you must have pulled them from Michigan’s Class of 2015 Profile for “Admitted Students” and not “Enrolled Students”.</p>
<p>Here are the statistics for the Class of 2014 and the Class of 2015 from the CDS respectively:</p>
<p><a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning;
Class of 2014
SAT CR: 590-690
SAT Math: 640-750
SAT Writing: 610-710</p>
<p><a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning;
Class of 2015
SAT CR: 600-700
SAT Math: 650-750
SAT Writing: 620-720</p>
<p>Also, you can’t simply add up the highs and lows of the different sections of the SAT and come up with a composite SAT range. To make a long story short, that’s not how statistics works. I would venture to guess that the 75th SAT pecentile of U of M’s Class of 2015 lies between 2150 and 2180, which would put it about on par with Virginia. The student bodies at these schools are more or less interchangeable. Berkeley’s undergraduate body is a bit stronger than both.</p>
<p>These modest increases will be common at selective public universities like Michigan going forward but it’s really hard for a student body at a university to improve that dramatically in quality in such a short of span of time; there are only X number of students who can score say a 2250+ on the SAT and there are dozens of schools with strong academic reputations like Michigan from which they can choose from.</p>
<p>Note that it took 5-6 years from Michigan’s ACT range to shift from 27-31 to 28-32. Things like this happen gradually and not suddenly.</p>
<p>I know I cannot add up the 3 SAT scores. I made the mistake a few posts ago and was promptly corrected. I tried to clarify by saying CR+M+W but obviously that clarification is not really clear at all. But thanks for providing the accurate data.</p>
<p>Average Accepted scores for each school out of 2400 (Class of 2015)</p>
<ol>
<li>Berkeley (2047)</li>
<li>Michigan (2033)</li>
<li>Virginia (1998)</li>
</ol>
<p>A 14 point difference means hardly anything. Also the 25th percentile for Michigan is about 40 points higher than Berkeley.</p>
<p>“Berkeley’s undergraduate body is a bit stronger than both.”</p>
<p>I guess not…</p>
<p>It makes sense that Berkeley’s medians would be higher since their state has four times the population of Michigan so I imagine they can be a bit more selective when it comes to instate students. As far as prestige goes, Berkeley’s traditionally number one, and it usually breaks down like this for anyone interested:</p>
<p>Berkeley
Michigan/UVA
UCLA/Texas/UNC/UWisc/UIUC/GeorgiaTech</p>
<p>I would say it’s more like:
Berkeley
Michigan/UCLA/UVA
UNC
the others you mentioned plus UCSD/UW</p>