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Re: Elite Colleges Admissions Merit Based? mithawk #143712 11/29/12 05:53 PM
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Dude Member Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 2,856	Originally Posted by mithawk Completely agree. Being able to hide some users' posts would be a really useful feature. We agree on something, then. More enforcement of the forum rules would also help, particularly the one about political topics.

Re: Elite Colleges Admissions Merit Based? mithawk #143715 11/29/12 06:05 PM
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Bostonian Member B Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,641 Likes: 3 MA	Originally Posted by mithawk I cannot remember where I heard/read this, but my recollection is that boys have a slightly lower mean but a higher standard deviation. Therefore boys dominate at the very high end, but girls dominate at a lower level (but still considerably above average). On the SAT boys have a slightly higher overall composite score than girls (higher in verbal and math, lower in writing) and slightly higher standard deviations in scores http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/TotalGroup-2012.pdf. In 2012 there were 74,000 males and 45,000 females with math SAT scores of 700 or above. About 60% of students with A or A+ high school GPAs are female (Table 13).

Re: Elite Colleges Admissions Merit Based? Austin #143723 11/29/12 07:27 PM
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Mark D. Member M Joined: Dec 1969 Posts: 273	I'm going to lock this one for now.

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