re: Tons of Auburn Fans in metro Atlanta

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If you are a UGA freshman, have a 31 on your ACT, 1340 on your SAT, and only completed 7 AP/dualenrollment/internationalbaccalaureate classes, then half of your freshman class are better than you.

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That isn’t necessarily true. A median is the middle number when you arrange a column smallest to largest. So if you had five freshman whose ACT scores were 31, 31, 33, 25, 18 then the median would be 31.
If the number of AP classes taken were 0, 2, 14, 14, and 7 the the median number of AP classes would be 7.
That doesn’t mean that the median student has a 31 and took 7 AP classes. The two things are graphed independently.
Common sense would suggest that the acceptee with a low ACT would have to do other things to boost his application like have a high GPA and take advanced courses. While the hypothetical applicant with a 33 who applies himself and does the extracurriculars in high school will go somewhere better than UGA.