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I agree with the point you are making, but looking at the data, I don’t think one can conclude that the majority scored 700+ on each section and certainly not the vast majority.</p>
<p>The data mentions 28% were below 700 on CR, 26% on writing, and 21% on math. If all 28% low CR were also low on math and writing, then it would be 28% had a sub 700 score on one of the sections. And if all of the group had only one sub-700 section that they made up for with 700+ scores on the the other two, then 75% would have a sub 600 score. So this only indicates somewhere between 28% and 75% of the freshman class had a sub 700 score. The ACT section mentions 21% had sub 30 English, while only 13% had a sub 30 composite. At least 40% of the low English ACT scorers did well on the other sections and were not in the sub 30 composite group, probably quite a bit above 40% since some of the sub 30 composite score people probably did fine in English and poorly in math & science. Applying the same ratio to the SAT scores, leads to an estimate of approximately half of the freshman class had a sub 700 SAT section. I was in this group with one poor score (500 verbal) that I partially made up with 800s on math and SAT II math, along with a 760-800 on SAT II chem (don’t recall exact score).</p>
<p>Class rank can also be misleading since only 37% of the freshman class submitted class rank and were included in the stats.</p>