<p>^ IMO, it’s the residuals that really matter. It doesn’t take a 2400 SAT (oh, I’m funny) to see that higher scoring students are more likely to attend and graduate from schools with significant research prestige. That’s basically the status quo in most people’s minds. I also suspect that smarter students would be fairly likely to graduate at any school. The residuals allow us to see that certain schools simply perform far better than one would expect solely based on their test scores.</p>
<p>Don’t just take my word for it. You should all run some tests yourselves based on whatever statistics you like and see what you get.</p>