This has been partly covered, but when Bates provided more robust SAT information on its CDS, as for the class entering in the fall of 2020, 23% of students had scored below 1200.
Possible, but they were admitted over people with near perfect scores. So itâs not the full story.
My daughter is now a junior at Bates. At the time she applied, we were thinking that over 1400 or over 33 for ACT would be good to submit. We know students from her high school who are at Bates now and had almost perfect test scores. Her GPA was a 4.2 so we felt the GPA alone was good enough, since Bates values GPA more than scores. (Her ACT was low 30s â so we didnât submit).
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Maybe, maybe not. Yield is a factor, the Common Data Set is for enrolled students. So maybe those with much higher scores chose to go elsewhere.
In 2020-21, the middle 50% of scores for enrolled students was 1210-1410 for SAT and 27-33 for ACT. Combining both SAT & ACT, 96% of enrolled students submitted scores in 2020-2021, compared to a total of 28% of scores submitted in 2023-2024.
I know verification of scores applicants asked to be considered is required upon enrollment, but it certainly seems like when more kids submitted, the scores were lower for kids who ultimately committed to Bates.
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maybe maybe not what?
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I understand and can figure out which post youâre referencing. However, the post is referring to students not even accepted, data which can be found easily if you look at past threads.
Generally unverifiable case examples may appear in prior CC topics. However, this wouldnât appear to constitute data.
Very interesting stuff here, but im not going to debate the definition of data.
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