Submitted by Lillie Mucha:\u00a0 The study was focused on the relationship between the scores and first-year GPA, but I found an interesting table of information on page 5 which shows the average scores collected from the participating colleges. Unfortunately, the data set of participating colleges underrepresents lower-selectivity schools, but the proportions are fairly similar nonetheless (36% of colleges in the population vs. 23% of colleges in the sample).<\/p>\n
The research done on enrolled college students is here: http:\/\/research.collegeboard.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/2012\/7\/researchreport-2008-5-validity-sat-predicting-first-year-college-grade-point-average.pdf<\/a> The mean SAT scores from enrolled college students in the format CR\/M\/W were: From Lillie:\u00a0 That\u2019s a very large difference between the two. I\u2019m not sure what really makes the difference. I\u2019m sure a lot of it has to do with who was admitted to college and who wasn\u2019t. It could also have to do with who decided not to apply to college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Submitted by Lillie Mucha:\u00a0 The study was focused on the relationship between the scores and first-year GPA, but I found an interesting table of information on page 5 which shows the average scores collected from the participating colleges. Unfortunately, the data set of participating colleges underrepresents lower-selectivity schools, but the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-suggested-readings","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe data which provided all SAT test-taker information is here: https:\/\/secure-media.collegeboard.org\/digitalServices\/pdf\/sat\/sat-percentile-ranks-crit-reading-math-writing-2014.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n
\n560\/579\/554
\nThe mean SAT scores from all SAT test takers in the same format were:
\n497\/513\/487<\/p>\n