Question about Collegeboard's profile on Harvard

tokenadult
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:50:16 +0000

I thought the middle 50% meant that 50% get above that score and 50% get below that score.



No, middle 50 percent means 25 percent get a higher score, and 25 percent get a lower score, because 25+50+25=100, and 100 percent is the whole group. This, by the way, is the way NACAC likes colleges to report score ranges: by showing the interquartile range WITHOUT reporting a median score.

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