<p>and don’t forget lopsided students … when I applied I was in the top 25% of the Math SAT scores at almost every school to which I applied … and in the bottom 25% of the Verbal SAT score … and my grades were near the median? So which quartile was I (as a whole)?</p>
<p>We discuss the quartile as though a whole applicant falls into that quartile … and I believe we are typically discussing one attribute/score at a time … and I would guess the number of applicants all of whose academic qualifitions are in the bottom 25% at a top school are few and far between.</p>