Need Advice-Is this appropriate?

Pizzagirl
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:00:33 +0000

My daughter was accepted into the following colleges where her test scores were at or slightly below 25%

Your daughter was an exception. There are certainly exceptions, but a read of any common data set will tell you they are few and far between.



Well, somebody’s got to be that 25%. In fact, I hear at some elite schools, a full quarter of the kids are at the 25% or below, if you can imagine that! That’s not good enough for me - I want my kids only to go to colleges where fewer than 10% are at or below the 25% percentile (sniff, hair toss). Maybe that will become the new prestige metric …