如何判断学校申请难度——关于本科选校技术的思考(二)
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SAT分数
更准确地说，是指原来的SAT I的分数或是现在的SAT Reasoning Test的分数。由于SAT分数是申请人众多申请要素中，最客观的要素之一，学校普遍较重视。每年学校都会公布往届被录取学生的SAT 25%~75%分布，也就是SAT分数排在中间的50%（即75%减去25%）学生的分数分布情况。再次以Harvard University为例，近年来平均的SAT 25%~75%分数段为1397~1583, 一般认为，如果申请人的SAT分数低于25%的分数线即1397，则处于劣势，而SAT高于75%即1583,则占有优势。要说明的是，这里的分数是指SAT Reasoning Test中的Critical Reading + Math两部分之和。统计发现，SAT是一个较稳定的评判要素，相邻两年的SAT分数变化在5%以内，甚至有很多学校的SAT分数连续几年稳定在同一水平上。可以想象，学校对于SAT分数，其实是存在一条隐性的分数线，如上文中的Harvard与Caltech的例子。因此，学校被录取学生的SAT分数越高，申请难度越大。
综合以上几个指标，我们建立了一个较综合的数学模型，有效地量化出每个学校的申请难度。由于所参考的数据有限，并且未经过长期的严格的验证，因而，在此暂未把这个模型具体公布出来。但本文附表中，附上了由此模型所推算出来的最难申请的TOP100学校名单，以供读者参考。其中，由于少数学校（如Bates College，Bard College）的数据不全而未有列在此名单上。希望本文能对2008年的本科申请者有所启发。若读者对以上内容有任何异议或见解，请不吝指正及提出意见。
附表：
（一）申请难度最大的前100所学校
|
申请难度 |
学校 |
|---|---|
|
164.86 |
Harvard University |
|
162.41 |
Princeton University |
|
162.27 |
Yale University |
|
160.99 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
160.22 |
California Institute of Technology |
|
158.98 |
Stanford University |
|
156.34 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
|
155.67 |
Dartmouth College |
|
155.16 |
Brown University |
|
154.44 |
Amherst College |
|
154.26 |
Pomona College |
|
153.31 |
Duke University |
|
153.02 |
University of Pennsylvania |
|
153.01 |
Williams College |
|
152.27 |
Washington University in St Louis |
|
152.15 |
Swarthmore College |
|
151.53 |
Rice University |
|
150.38 |
Harvey Mudd College |
|
148.61 |
University of Chicago |
|
148.07 |
Georgetown University |
|
147.64 |
University of Notre Dame |
|
147.50 |
Northwestern University |
|
147.23 |
Wesleyan University |
|
147.02 |
Bowdoin College |
|
146.99 |
Cornell University |
|
146.72 |
Tufts University |
|
146.67 |
Carleton College |
|
146.66 |
Middlebury College |
|
145.66 |
Washington and Lee University |
|
145.46 |
Claremont McKenna College |
|
145.25 |
Haverford College |
|
144.78 |
Wellesley College |
|
144.31 |
Vassar College |
|
144.26 |
Johns Hopkins University |
|
143.61 |
Barnard College |
|
142.30 |
Davidson College |
|
141.86 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
|
141.80 |
University of Southern California |
|
141.61 |
Emory University |
|
141.52 |
Colgate University |
|
140.84 |
College of William and Mary |
|
140.82 |
Vanderbilt University |
|
140.61 |
University of California-Berkeley |
|
140.59 |
Colby College |
|
140.31 |
Oberlin College |
|
139.85 |
Hamilton College |
|
139.50 |
University of Virginia-Main Campus |
|
139.13 |
Boston College |
|
138.55 |
Brandeis University |
|
138.11 |
Macalester College |
|
137.38 |
Connecticut College |
|
137.28 |
Grinnell College |
|
137.01 |
New York University |
|
136.69 |
University of California-Los Angeles |
|
136.48 |
Wheaton College |
|
136.20 |
Reed College |
|
136.05 |
Kenyon College |
|
136.00 |
Wake Forest University |
|
135.84 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
|
135.71 |
Bucknell University |
|
134.88 |
Scripps College |
|
134.68 |
Whitman College |
|
134.33 |
Lehigh University |
|
134.20 |
Trinity College |
|
134.19 |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
|
133.93 |
Bryn Mawr College |
|
132.89 |
Tulane University of Louisiana |
|
132.79 |
University of Rochester |
|
132.71 |
University of Richmond |
|
131.32 |
Colorado College |
|
131.31 |
George Washington University |
|
131.16 |
St John's College |
|
131.08 |
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
|
131.03 |
Lafayette College |
|
129.81 |
Occidental College |
|
129.53 |
Dickinson College |
|
129.53 |
Illinois Wesleyan University |
|
129.36 |
College of the Holy Cross |
|
129.20 |
University of Maryland-College Park |
|
128.88 |
Gettysburg College |
|
128.77 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
|
128.71 |
University of California-San Diego |
|
128.52 |
University of Florida |
|
128.45 |
Case Western Reserve University |
|
128.39 |
Boston University |
|
128.35 |
Stevens Institute of Technology |
|
128.28 |
Furman University |
|
128.19 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
|
128.13 |
Pepperdine University |
|
128.10 |
Smith College |
|
127.85 |
Sarah Lawrence College |
|
127.68 |
Thomas Aquinas College |
|
127.64 |
Kalamazoo College |
|
127.53 |
SUNY at Binghamton |
|
127.51 |
Franklin and Marshall College |
|
127.28 |
University of Miami |
|
126.76 |
Union College |
|
126.62 |
St. Olaf College |
|
126.31 |
Rhodes College |
