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Are they overrated? Just having an 800 on a single section of the SAT means that an applicant has over a 20% chance of being accepted at both Dartmouth & Brown.
[Brown</a> Admission: Facts & Figures](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University)
[Testing</a> Statistics](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/admissions/facts/test-stats.html]Testing”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/admissions/facts/test-stats.html)</p>
<p>I think one can assume a similar phenomenon occurs at other schools, they just decline to provide such information.</p>