<p>John Galt, would love to have coffee and discuss your thinking! I’ve been playing around with 96th, 99th, and 99th+ percentile cuts, and using those and other PA specific data, I’m determined to get a line of best fit that covers all of the PA data! Stay tuned… But in using the data above, I realized that last year’s commended cut was actually at the 97th percentile, rather than the 96th. Most years show a span of 96th percentiles (one year was 197-200), with commended landing closer to the top of the range, but last year 203 (commended score) was listed as the 97th. What are we to make of that?</p>
<p>Also, does anyone have links to the selection index percentile charts that go back further than the 4 linked above? For what it’s worth, the 5th year back report (2009) uses the sample of the current class (2011), and uses the same numbers given in the 2010 report (now also class of 2011). Boy, those years will drive you nuts in due time. Report year, test year, class of year, data year…</p>
<p>(I still have this fear that scores are just going to steadily climb until the whole program crashes and burns!)</p>