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From: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Northwestern?/caltech
Message-ID: <3032@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 21:32:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 21:32:10 1985
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References: <1730@watdcsu.UUCP> <249@laidbak.UUCP> <990@oddjob.UUCP> <112@cher.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson)
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In article <112@cher.UUCP> bruce@cher.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>In article <990@oddjob.UUCP> matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) writes:
>
>>P.S.  The median math S.A.T. score of Caltech students is 800.  No joke.
>
>OK, OK.  I'll bite.  Explain to me how the median score can be 800.  I'm 
>under the impression that 800 is the maximum possible score.  Since the
>median score is defined as the score that divides the distribution into
>halves (50% above, 50% below), I fail to see how this is possible.  Go ahead.
>Enlighten me.

OK. My SAT Math score was 780. I didn't get in to Caltech. (780=1 wrong)

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