Bowdoin’s public figures with respect to standardized scoring show a demarcation between the several years preceding and including 2015 and the several years including and following 2016 to a degree that it’s unclear why anyone would be resistant to the possibility that Bowdoin significantly changed its reporting practices during this time, irrespective of what its practices may have been before or have been since:
Year | Percent Submitting SAT or ACT
2013 | 80%
2014 | 74%
2015 | 78%
2016 | 98%
2017 | 105%
2018 | 106%
Bates offers another example of a college similarly enhancing its reporting practices in recent years.