Wesleyan vs. Vassar

Colleges & Universities Wesleyan University
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<p>Class of 2009:</p>

<p>Wesleyan:</p>

<p>The link to the Wesleyan site shows a 1430 median SAT (720V, 710M) for accepted students. For those who actually enroll, the median is 1400 (700V, 700M). </p>

<p>The College Board site gives the middle 50% SAT range for enrolled students:</p>

<p>V 650-750
M 650-740</p>

<p>1300-1490</p>

<p>See <a href=“http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=122&profileId=6[/url]”>http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=122&profileId=6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Vassar</p>

<p>The middle 50% range for enrolled students:</p>

<p>V 680-730
M 660-720</p>

<p>1340-1450</p>

<p>The median for entrolled students:</p>

<p>700V
690M</p>

<p>1390</p>

<p>See:</p>

<p><a href=“http://admissions.vassar.edu/pdfs/class2009stats.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.vassar.edu/pdfs/class2009stats.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>See <a href=“http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=760&profileId=6[/url]”>http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=760&profileId=6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<li><p>So, the numbers tscogrady cited are the 25% figures for the Vassar and Wesleyan 2009 Classes (enrolled) – not the median (50%) figures.</p></li>
<li><p>The Vassar 25% number (1340) is rather high: Williams was 1330; Amherst and Swat was 1350. But the Vassar range is very compressed, with 1450 as the 75% number. (Williams: 1520, Swat:1530, Amherst: 1560.)
Data on AWS from College Board for enrolled class 2009.</p></li>
<li><p>As a general matter when looking at this stuff, you have to keep distinct accepted student data and enrolled. The Common Data sets give enrolled student data and that is what gets picked up by US News, Princeton Review, College Board etc.</p></li>
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