<p>Will I get in, and more importantly, will i get good financial aid? Also, how do these colleges see ACT scores? Are they important at all? If i get a really high score on my ACT, will I have a higher chance of getting in?</p>
<p>im waitlisted for stanford and i got 1810, also my act was 25 composite [not good right?], but some of my other friends were rejected with higher scores</p>
<p>Check CB website. they have percentiles for every school. yes its good enough if you got good ec, gpa etc. low end but better then 1/4 of people who are admitted.</p>
<p>@2 How the hell lol, you must be a URM/athlete/legacy</p>
<p>Well, my S is applying to Stanford, has a 2120 and is retaking in May. But then, as expected, his scores are lopsided.</p>
<p>me? nope no legacy, im just awesome =] j/k but: my gpa was 4.36, student gov for 6 years, summer program at ucsd, hispanic?, and im not first generation to go to college, 120 hrs cs[not super] thespian!!, academic league, i guess i was one of the lucky ones, i’ll prob be rejected from the list though…</p>
<p>2130 is an awesome score, and I think you stand a good chance at getting in, as long as you have a decent essay, extra-curricular activities, and volunteering and stuff.</p>
<p>Personally, I find College Board percentiles and stuff too confusing and everything. I recommend the following website:
[SAT</a> Scores](<a href=“http://www.satprep.ca/sat_scores.asp]SAT”>http://www.satprep.ca/sat_scores.asp)</p>
<p>Awesome site, sorts the universities by admission rate. As you can see, your score is clearly in the 25th to 75th percentile range.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>first of all… if you get in… it doesn’t matter what your scores are for financial aid… assuming you are applying next year, I would retake the SAT and the ACT as well as it will only help… GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>I got a 2130 and got rejected to Stanford, and waitlisted at Cornell.</p>
<p>Based on my son’s experience this year, 2130 is not enough to get into the schools you mentioned unless you are in the top 10% of your class and have a number of serious EC activities and/or a minority/legacy/athlete candidate.</p>
<p>Gaoez thanks for that site. =)</p>
<p>yay for low 2100s. </p>
<p>2120 here, reppin.</p>
<p>Bro, let’s get this straight:</p>
<p>NOTHING is either good enough or too low for schools like them; you never know if you’re going to get in or not.</p>
<p>A high test score will help on an application. But, kids with perfect scores get rejected all the time. Far more important are grades and (depending on the school) essays, recs, and extracurriculars. If you ever look at scattergrams that show grades (y-axis) vs. test scores (x-axis) for admitted students, there will be a strong horizontal trend for the top schools (so admitted students have similar GPAs but different test scores). Which indicates that, after a certain point, test scores don’t really mean much. Looking at the scattergrams, there are plenty of people rejected with 36s on the ACT if they have bad grades, and there are also plenty of people accepted with 30s on the ACT with good grades.</p>
<p>I will say that this trend becomes somewhat different with schools with a less holistic approach who focus more on test scores, but this doesn’t apply to the top private schools (like I heard of one student who was rejected at UofI but accepted at MIT and Stanford- she had great grades, essays, and ECs but had a really bad ACT score). So, at the top schools, a good test score will put your application in the right file. Yes, a 2400 would help, but not by much. I should know; I got a 35 on my ACT but got 2 rejections and 3 waitlists :(.</p>
<p>brownman777 is right, u just never know </p>
<p>one of my friends got a 2040 on the SAT and got accepted to Stanford early decision, but he is also a valedictorian with a 4.58 GPA and he’s an Asian who goes to a Mormon church</p>
<p>another one of my friends (who’s Indian and not Mormon) got a 2340 on the SAT and got waitlisted at Columbia, Duke, Cornell, and UPenn, but he rounds of the top 5 % in our class (so like 4.2 GPA)</p>
<p>oh and my Asian/kinda mormon friend got waitlisted at Columbia as well</p>
<p>I have a 4.30 GPA, 2090 SAT and I got denied from Georgetown and waitlisted at U Chicago</p>
<p>point is that u never know</p>
<p>Ivy League schools don’t give merit-aid, so whether you get good financial aid there will be based upon your financial need.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about Stanford and MIT, and although a 2150 is a very good score, it’s about average for their student bodies. So I’m assuming that your SAT scores alone wouldn’t get you good merit aid – you’d also need an outstanding admissions package.</p>
<p>Gaoez, the website you just gave us gives the exact same information as the College Board, just in one long table. It’s no less confusing than the College Board website.</p>
<p>alsvet, your statement doesn’t even make sense. The OP’s score falls neatly into the middle 25-75% score range of admitted students. Most admitted students to these top schools are in the top 10% of their class anyway and have good ECs.</p>
<p>I think the point is that your SAT score alone is not going to make your application. The rest of it has to be outstanding, too.</p>
<p>oh i forgot to mention another one of my friends (Indian kid) got a 2360 on the SAT, but had a 3.9 GPA (not in top 10%) and he got waitlisted at Yale (which is impressive considering they only waitlist about a 100 ppl each year) but he also got waitlisted at UVA (in-state!), so, as I said before, you never know</p>
<p>usually, most applicants aim for 2200+ for ivies/tier 1. if you dont mind me asking, what were your breakdown scores?</p>
<p>@Russian</p>
<p>err… i looked it up because it looked wrong… yale waitlisted 769 kids this year, which is significantly more than about 100.</p>
<p>if you want the link: [Waitlist</a> larger than projected size for Class of 2013 - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/03/23262/]Waitlist”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/03/23262/)</p>