This is Roscommon raw again with lesson number 26. Estimating chances of getting in. Once we select a few colleges, we need to know if we have a reasonable chance of getting in. Remember that nearly 90% of degree granting colleges and universities are not selective and would accept your application as is. But if you plan to attend the 250 or so colleges, which turned away at least 40% of the applicants, you need to know ahead of time, how you stack up against the competition, how you stack up against other students just like you. Otherwise, you would be blindly applying wasting away valuable time, effort and money.
One way to see how you stack up against others is to use the college board's academic tracker using SAP a CT score percentiles to estimate chances. A CT a CT scores are important because they're considered an objective factor. And schools can make judgments about a student based on one standardized exam where everything is well controlled. All schools insist that they do not use scores on these tests as cut offs, meaning that students who score below a certain threshold are automatically excluded. Indeed, most schools go out of their way to state that they look at a student's overall profile, which is more long term. But as a practical matter, with so many students applying a CT a CT scores do serve as a gateway or are off This is why schools publish a CT or a CT percentile ranges using which you can better predict if you can get in.
This method works if you already know which college you want to go to, and you want to estimate if you have a reasonable chance of getting in or not. The college navigator the friendly website, which we visited previously, is an outstanding source of SAP city information. Suppose you're considering applying to Purdue University in Indiana. Clicking on admissions gives you test scores information. In this case, the SAT critical reading score is 520 for the 25th percentile, and 630 for the 75th percentile. What does this mean?
This indicates that all the students who were admitted 25% of the students had a sat reading score of less than five of the other end of the scale. 25% of the students had a score Higher than 630 because 100 minus 25 is 75. You can predict your admission chances low, average or high depending upon what your SAT score is. If your SAT scores fall close to the mid range for the school that would form a core or match school, meaning you would probably get in. If your scores are closer to the 25th percentile. This means that 75% of students have scores better than yours, so the school would probably become a dream or stretch institution for you.
If your scores are close to or better than the 75th percentile, you're among an elite group of students that the school would love to have. So this school is a safe choice, meaning you will likely get in all other things being equal. You can use Sad and AC t scores to find matching schools, you would simply go to the college board's college search tool, and you could look for colleges based on how much of a match for colleges with your test scores. In this example, a student who scored a 790 in sad math and six ad in reading is interested in highly selective schools. The search results in several selective schools with a percentage match score. All of these colleges are listed as 100% matches so the student can apply to them with a fair level of confidence.
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