<p>I always notice that the SAT score ranges that schools post in their literature are like 50 points higher than what one would see in something like princeton review or U.S. News. Could someone explain this phenomenon?</p>
<p>for example, The mid 50% of SAT scores at NYU range from 1240-1420 according to princeton review, but they range from 1310-1450 according to the school’s website, and GW’s scores range from 1200-1390 on college board, but from 1260-1410 in their brochure.</p>
<p>Because the schools don’t send their updated data that often to the mags and other reporting services, at least not as soon as they could. I know someone who worked at a big state school and it was amazing if they could even get their own admissions Web site updated enough (it was their asst admissions director who did it!!), let alone send the data elsewhere.</p>