<p>Looking at SAT 25/75 admission rates can be misleading because colleges generally do not publish the 25/75 of their rejected applicants. I suspect there is a lot of overlap between these two subsets with the admitted applicants being higher by just a few percentage points (less than 10% difference). Just because you are within this margin (even comfortable) does not mean you will automatically get admitted. </p>
<p>Also, for many of the most selective public schools like UVA, UMich, and UNC, the 25/75 is misleading because those schools take between 18 (UNC) and 30 to 35% (UVA and UM) OOS and those students SAT scores are usually MUCH higher on average than the 25/75 would suggest.</p>