SAT Grouping?

Colleges & Universities University of Pennsylvania
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<p>This is in no way a substantiated claim, but I’ve read somewhere that colleges like Penn, Northwestern, etc… group and stratify their applicants into three or more categories: 1)2250-2400, 2)2100-2240, 3)2000-2090 and it goes on…, they group applicants even though it doesn’t make much sense that there is much difference between a 2250 and a 2240, and a 2090 and a 2100.</p>

<p>Is it true that these colleges really do this? I’m not saying that this score brackets are necessarily a determining factor in admissions, but it is true that this is taken into account in the process.</p>

<p>The guy who told this allegedly has connections to the adcoms at these colleges…I’m just wondering if anyone knows about this…and because if that were true, I might be a victim of this SAT stratification just because of that 10 points…Not that I can do anything about it, just should’ve tried harder…</p>

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<p>As you are, I would certainly take that individual’s dubious claims with a large degree of skepticism. It would be irrational to categorize SAT scores more broadly than the ten-point distinctions already present.</p>

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<p>It might be possible; although the dividing lines between scores would be unfair to some, so is the dividing line between an adult and a child.</p>

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<p>just because something is unfair doesn’t mean it can’t be done.</p>

<p>The cut off line between adult and a child is 18. That is a cold hard fact backed by legal evidence.</p>

<p>While unfair, this does seem to be how some school divvy up test scores (see Princeton’s admissions page).</p>

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<p>I agree with jasonInNy.</p>