Why are the bottom 25% SAT scores so low for the "elite" public colleges?

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Cal weeds out a lot more applicants in the sciences than the private schools who are much more invested in keeping students in their chosen fields (with the exception of some pre-med programs) to justify the private advantage.

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<p>That is illogical. Approx 25% of a typical private college’s entering Frosh are premed, most of which are science majors. At some colleges like Hopkins, its 33%. Few of those come close to even applying to med school. Call it what you will, but they do get off the premed track. Do publics give out more low grades, such as Cs and Ds? Sure. But one can still graduate in Chemistry with “low gpa”. (They are not forced out.)</p>

<p>Thus, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.</p>