This info from Brown’s site shows a similar pattern to the Princeton info, but is also interesting because they include the number of applicants they are getting in each category. Some people are ignoring the fact that these schools take a significant portion of their class from recruited athletes and URMs and that average stats of both these groups are on the low end of their admitted students. I’m not going to take the time to do this but it should be possible to estimate the size of both these groups and get some idea of where the real drop-off in admissions for non-hooked students is. Interesting that the vast majority of applicants are now coming from schools that don’t rank.
Rank in Class
Applied Accepted % Accepted Enrolled
Valedictorian 1,603 306 19% 118
Salutatorian 738 100 14.% 39
Top 10% 7,938 812 10% 382
2nd Tenth and below 2,426 46 2% 34
Number attending schools that do not provide class rank 22,026 2,157 10% 1,275
Distribution of College Board Test Scores (Critical Reading)
Applied Accepted % Accepted Enrolled % of Class
800 2,292 523 23% 241 21%
750-790 3,514 535 15% 271 24%
700-740 5,035 516 10% 292 26%
650-690 4,009 283 7% 172 15%
600-640 2,730 145 5% 95 8%
550-590 1,509 54 4% 42 4%
<550 1,492 21 1% 18 1%
Distribution of College Board Test Scores (Math)
Applied Accepted % Accepted Enrolled % of Class
800 3,615 570 16% 261 23%
750-790 4,412 604 14% 314 28%
700-740 4,068 443 11% 252 22%
650-690 3,654 266 7% 162 14%
600-640 2,293 135 6% 95 8%
550-590 1,252 46 4% 35 3%
<550 1,287 13 1% 12 1%
Distribution of College Board Test Scores (Writing)
Applied Accepted % Accepted Enrolled % of Class
800 12,059 414 20% 181 16%
750-790 4,681 690 15% 343 30%
700-740 4,667 497 11% 306 27%
650-690 3,988 283 7% 166 15%
600-640 2,289 110 5% 66 6%
550-590 1,469 65 4% 53 5%
<550 1,428 18 1% 16 1%
Distribution of ACT Scores
Applied Accepted % Accepted Enrolled % of Class
36 464 132 28% 53 6%
33-35 6,714 769 11% 414 50%
29-32 6,132 421 7% 267 32%
26-28 1,833 87 5% 72 9%
< 26 1,181 21 2% 19 2%