<p>750 math, 630 verbal. is that enough not to be cut out in the first round in the top tier schools (mit, some ivies and so on)</p>
<p>i know admission is lots more than sat scores. but you know.</p>
<p>Well Cornell, for example has an average SAT of about 1330.</p>
<p>you just said it yourself admissions is a lot more than SAT scores.....go look at the Ivy websites they will tell you the percent of people who get in with what SAT</p>
<p>The most important single piece of your application is your transcript. What are your grades, what kind of courses are you taking, what kind of school are you attending, what is your class rank, where are the kids at your school going to college? My niece was accepted to Cornell with a SAT1 score in the 1200s. But she had 3 700+s for the SAT2, loads of Ap Courses, 4s and 5s on the AP exams, and pretty much straight A's from a rigorous school that sends a handful to Cornell each year. She was waitlisted but accepted, and I am sure that her sterling senior year record contributed to that result. She also had a resume of many stellar achievements and a variety of interests. Her teachers thought she was one of the finest kids they had ever taught. Her weakness was that SAT1 score, and it was overlooked ultimately. But when you have a part of the application that is average, you do have to have the rest of the items stellar. Though Cornell's average may be a 1330, I am sure that most of those in the bottom half of the class have a major hook, or as I described , a fanatastic resume.</p>
<p>Vladimir, Cornell's mean SAT score is actually 1380. That is not much higher than 1330 anyway, but there is a small difference.</p>
<p>Most Ivies have mane SAT scores tha hover between 1380 and 1440. Princeton, Yale and Harvard are slightly higher. In terms of range, the mid 50% usually starts at 1280 and ends at 1530.</p>
<p>As jamimom implies, with that score you'd need a stellar record and a hook.</p>
<p>Cornell only has 1330? that's Bull!</p>
<p>thanks guys.</p>
<p>ps. oh well i dont have a stellar record nor a hook. (or i dont know what's considered as a stellar record or a hook) um :P (oh yeah. i've never read a quantom physics whatever, i've never published/interned/researched, calc AB is the highest math class, sports are n't my thing and so on.. well -_-)</p>
<p>by top schools you mean duke? I got in with a 1350.... and in the school of engineering. so ANYTHING is possible</p>
<p>thanks for all replies.
bsbllallstr8, i read your thread a long time ago. good job on your admission.
well i know nothing is impossible. yet i guess it's a statistical problem.</p>
<p>My homeboy has a disgustingly low score of 1320, but he got into Cornell. Cornell's great fun, it's full of frats like Lambda Phi Epsilon.</p>
<p>lol since when was a 1320 a disgustingly low score. Many people would kill for that score. Some people with scores less than 1200 or even 1100 get into top 25 schools... =). Albeit not a heck-of-a-lot, but still many do.</p>
<p><em>Edit</em> Besides that's not a "fuzzywuzzy" thing to say about a homeboy/homegirl ;P</p>
<p>lol! =P
I wasn't dissing my friend, I was dissing the grade.... it really is not a good score. I was trying to demonstrate how lots of kids with poor grades get into nice skools.</p>
<p>how do u thing a 1520 with 4.0 uw gpa and average ecs would do at cornell (and i mean average ecs as in not the president of 20 clubs).</p>
<p>Dude i would kill for a 1320 ....why does everyone make fun of above average scores??? If im correct i think most ppl score 1200 or 1100 as said above</p>
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Last I heard a 1320 was somewhere hovering around the 91st percentile... I wouldn't call a score that is higher than those of over 90 percent of the college-bound senior population "disgustingly low" or "poor". It may be poor for Ivy League standards, but certainly not poor in general.</p>
<p>Yeah what an elitist bastard for saying that</p>
<p>Everyone on here will tell you that because they are cynical. But that's the lower bound of the mid 50% range for Harvard. So if you have other good stats you can go anywhere you want.</p>
<p>Fuzzywuzzy, 1320 is not at all unusal at top universities. Here is a list of schools where at least 25% of their students got less than a 1350 on their SAT:</p>
<p>Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University</p>
<p>those low scores are for athletes/ URMS and legacies</p>
<p>no REAL applicant makes up those number without a hook</p>