Word: medians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...median verbal SAT score for the class of '66 is 679; it has grown unevenly since the class of '61, which had a median...
...tapping existing financing systems, the planners figured they could scrape together $204 million for the project. But they still needed a bond issue of a whopping $792 million. That broke down to a $27-a-year tax increase for the "median" householder in the region, whether or not he used the system. Making matters even tougher was a state requirement that the proposed bond issue be passed by 60% or more of the voters. By 61.1% of the total vote of 714,425, citizens of the three counties agreed to shell out the necessary money to build the first major...
...similar levelling-off was noted in the median SAT scores of entering freshmen. The median verbal SAT was 679, an increase of one point from the Class of '65 and anet increase of three over the last four classes. The increase from the Class of '61 to '64 had been 39 points...
Glimp saw some significance in the fact that the median verbal score of the bottom ten per cent of the class dropped 23 points, from 581 to 568. He said the drop was evidence that the Admissions Committee was giving more weight to to "non-objective" factors in selecting candidates and that Harvard was getting "more really strong candidates in the low range of SAT scores...
...median is the middle figure in a series of statistics. In dealing with population, for example, it means that an equal number of people or families fall above or below the cited figure. The city figures are limited to incorporated cities with at least 25,000 residents...