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So does a middle 1/3 sloe from a top institution carry more weight than a top 1/3 sloe from an average institution?
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Personally, I care less about the name of the institution writing the sloe, and more about the statistical breakdown of the grade given. There are some community programs out there that are very tough graders, and some university-based programs out there that are very top-heavy in their grades. There's not a standard distribution across all the EM programs, which is why the sloe has the section where you have to state how many people got each grade and each sloe rank category each year.
So if I have two different candidates with "top 1/3" SLOEs, the strength of the SLOEs in comparison to one another would be something as follows in terms of impressiveness:
1. Well known place that doesn't inflate their grades
2. Place that doesn't inflate their grades but isn't a big name place.
3. Big name place with grade inflation
4. No name place with grade inflation
That's how, in my mind, I think about the quality of a SLOE, taking into account the prestige of the institution, and how they do or don't over inflate their SLOE scoring. Obviously, this is one persons opinion, take that for what its worth.