At the time I was applying to colleges (late 70’s early 80’s era), I remember 1300 kind of being the cutoff for most top schools with 1400 being the target if you were shooting for the most selective schools. That more or less aligns with the concordance table above (just a tad lower). The big change is the admissions rate based upon the concorded scores. Back then, if you scored 1400+ and were in the top 5% of your class, you had a realistic chance of getting into HYP and a very good chance at schools like Duke and Univ of Mich. Your EC’s could simply be playing on a sports team, member of the band/choir, writing for the school paper and working at McD’s over the summer.
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