Why do you think the medians have dropped? Curious.dj9i27 wrote:cross post from September study groupsanzgo wrote:i'd expect this to make things ever so slightly more splitter-unfriendly.
i don't know what the hell lsac is thinking but i don't like the looks of this.
they (and schools like harvard) should be making it harder for people to go to LS, not easier. too bad all they care about $$$
Initial response to the abolishment of the 3x takes is that it is splitter death. I disagree. It isn't like June and September are going to have a massive influx of only 180ers hell not even 170ers, it'll probably remain the same because test takers are only marginally different year to year; and we are still at one of the lowest applicant number ever and Harvard's medians dropped as well as Stanford. Dropping medians are a thing and we all need to look at this as a good thing.
The SAT are taken unlimited times and top scores still remain about the same. I think a 174+ and especially a 177+ will hold their value
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- hushpuppy
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Less people taking the test. 170+ is now down to something like 2,700 people I think? 173+ is like 1,000? Harvard alone takes close to 600 of these people (maybe 550... I'm not sure how many sub 170s get into H, but it is not many.)hushpuppy wrote:Why do you think the medians have dropped? Curious.dj9i27 wrote:cross post from September study groupsanzgo wrote:i'd expect this to make things ever so slightly more splitter-unfriendly.
i don't know what the hell lsac is thinking but i don't like the looks of this.
they (and schools like harvard) should be making it harder for people to go to LS, not easier. too bad all they care about $$$
Initial response to the abolishment of the 3x takes is that it is splitter death. I disagree. It isn't like June and September are going to have a massive influx of only 180ers hell not even 170ers, it'll probably remain the same because test takers are only marginally different year to year; and we are still at one of the lowest applicant number ever and Harvard's medians dropped as well as Stanford. Dropping medians are a thing and we all need to look at this as a good thing.
The SAT are taken unlimited times and top scores still remain about the same. I think a 174+ and especially a 177+ will hold their value
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Really! I guess I didn't know so few people got those high numbers ... and I didn't know the numbers were falling. I'm learning so much from all of you, and it's only been five days!34iplaw wrote:Less people taking the test. 170+ is now down to something like 2,700 people I think? 173+ is like 1,000? Harvard alone takes close to 600 of these people (maybe 550... I'm not sure how many sub 170s get into H, but it is not many.)hushpuppy wrote:Why do you think the medians have dropped? Curious.dj9i27 wrote:cross post from September study groupsanzgo wrote:i'd expect this to make things ever so slightly more splitter-unfriendly.
i don't know what the hell lsac is thinking but i don't like the looks of this.
they (and schools like harvard) should be making it harder for people to go to LS, not easier. too bad all they care about $$$
Initial response to the abolishment of the 3x takes is that it is splitter death. I disagree. It isn't like June and September are going to have a massive influx of only 180ers hell not even 170ers, it'll probably remain the same because test takers are only marginally different year to year; and we are still at one of the lowest applicant number ever and Harvard's medians dropped as well as Stanford. Dropping medians are a thing and we all need to look at this as a good thing.
The SAT are taken unlimited times and top scores still remain about the same. I think a 174+ and especially a 177+ will hold their value
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110-120K people take the test each year, so 170 being top 2.5% is like 2,500 or whatever.hushpuppy wrote:
Really! I guess I didn't know so few people got those high numbers ... and I didn't know the numbers were falling. I'm learning so much from all of you, and it's only been five days!
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