<p>Just curious, since I also go to school in NYC, where do you go?</p>
<p>PM me if you don’t feel comfortable saying it here.</p>
<p>Sent…I’m comfortable here, but I just don’t like shouting it out…</p>
<p>Ouch man. Your Columbia Naviance graph is brutal. Mine has virtual walls for GPA and ACT: above them, people get in. Below them they don’t.</p>
<p>Based off of your post #13 OP, I suspect that quite a few of the people reported false data to your school’s Naviance system. Unless your school is essentially a school for the children of Columbia faculty or sends 2-3 recruited athletes to Columbia each year, it’s quite hard to believe that 10 people with SAT scores <2000 were accepted in the past 2-3 years and when considering this is just one school, it’s even less plausible.</p>
<p>@Jersey: well not exactly. I actually used to know some of the people that got accepted with low grades. Anyways, keep in mind that the students do not put in their SAT and GPA grades. The school does. They just say whether they got accepted or not (no answer is taken as a rejection)</p>
<p>Also lol, I think it’s due to the fact that it’s nationally ranked and the largest in the USA is what makes it plausible (?)</p>
<p>@photographer: what are the virtual lines for your school lol?</p>
<p>I think he’s accusing them of lying about whether they were accepted</p>
<p>Bit of a stretch…I mean…why? What would ten different people gain by lying…maybe if it was 1,2 or 3…it might have been lies…but 10 is a fairly big number of students.</p>
<p>@ Jersey
lol i kind of side with Jersey, although I am in no way accusing anybody’s school of lying lol. But as I said before, considering how Columbia is one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S, and 2350+ routinely gets rejected, sending off 10 in last 2 years with less than 2000 SAT is quite a stretch. </p>
<p>Also, as I mentioned before - for alot of schools, the average for NYU is even 2050 +, its kind of weird for columbia’s accepted average t ur school to be so low</p>
<p>but anways silence, can you maybe provide data on the average accepted SAT at ur school to other top colleges?</p>
<p>i mean, its always possible that you attend like maybe a all music school or something all even tho all the musicians have lower than 2000, they’re beast, nationally ranked or something lol</p>
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<p>trollin’ from a fellow nyc public ;)</p>
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Well let’s see. The 25th percentile SAT score for Columbia’s admitted students is a 2100, and the bottom quarter of accepted students are essentially all URMs, recruited athletes, children of faculty, developmental admits etc. As far as I’m aware, you haven’t said that any of these 10 acceptances were for hooked applicants, which leads me to believe they falsified their admissions results (I’m well aware that the school itself inputs each applicants grades/scores). I just find the occurrence of 10 acceptances of unhooked students with SAT scores below 2000 in a 2 year span at a single high school very, very unlikely.</p>
<p>domino, your chart makes a lot more sense.</p>
<p>I’ll post the graphs of some more tomorrow, just tell me which and I’ll post it.</p>
<p>@Jersey: it’s over a course of three years. Also take note that 150 people apply. I don’t think Columbia would take the same number of students from a school that has like only 5 people applying to it.</p>
<p>holy crap your naviance is crazy. the columbia graph for my school is pretty much empty.</p>
<p>^^^That made me laugh. Want to switch 
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Two or three years, doesn’t really make a difference. The number of people from your school that apply is pretty much irrelevant too, unless you happen to attend a Stuveysant, Exeter or Andover type school, but looking at the SAT scores, you obviously don’t. Having 3-4 unhooked kids with SAT scores below 2000 get in Columbia every year for three years is not too plausible. Either those <2000 kids were recruited athletes, URMs or sons/daughters of large donors that you didn’t know about or they probably falsified their admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Well that’s the point…I DO! lol</p>
<p>I go to a specialized High School like Stuy.</p>
<p>^ I meant a school that is ranked as high/considered as strong. Only one of the applicants in the last 3 years at your school has an SAT score above 2300, and while I’m not trying to claim a perfect correlation between SAT scores and school strength, I suspect there is at least a statistically significant degree of correlation.</p>
<p>Mines is ranked. #63 in the nation.</p>
<p>I think the graph in the OP is really good proof that a 2300+ is a big boost</p>