2400/36 scorers: post your results here

Applying to College
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<p>Every year, as admissions get more and more competitive, the NYT and the major college newspapers start churning out articles about the vast numbers of ultra-high-scoring students who get rejected from top-tier colleges. I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering how this happens. How do the best colleges pick and choose among those who have the very best test scores and grades?</p>

<p>To answer this question, and to help future applicants develop a "theory of mind" about admission offices, I think it would be helpful to everyone if all the CCers who got 2400s on the SAT-I or 36s on the ACT would post their final results in this thread. Use the templates provided in decision threads, and please do speculate on what you think did or didn't set you apart from the crowd. What really makes the difference?</p>

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<p>Haha I would love to hear your comments as well, as an anxious 2400-er who is already freaking out a year in advance!</p>

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<p>36</p>

<p>Got into UChicago, MIT, Columbia, and Brown. Waitlisted at Harvard, Penn. Rejected at Princeton, Yale.</p>

<p>=] I'm happy with it.</p>

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<p>rb9109, it does seem kind of strange to be freaking out with a 2400 doesn't it?</p>

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<p>36</p>

<p>Got in at Emory, Northwestern, Rice, Pitt, Miami, Berkeley, Davidson, Upenn</p>

<p>Waitlist at Duke, Brown</p>

<p>Reject at Stanford, Yale, Princeton</p>

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<p>Now let's hear from some 2400s.. it would be interesting to see if there was a discrepancy</p>

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<p>2400...accepted at MIT & Caltech, rejected at Yale & Stanford. if u want the complete list, PM me--its quite long since i applied to a bunch</p>

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<p>2400 - accepted by K-zoo, Oberlin, Reed, Wesleyan, and Grinnell, rejected by Williams, Vassar, and Brown. My GPA is terrible, though...</p>

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<p>What qualifies as terrible?</p>

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<p>Here, "terrible" is a 3.7.</p>

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<p>I know a ACT 36 scorer from our school</p>

<p>He was rejected by all the ivies except for cornell</p>

<p>Oh, and he also got into Amherst</p>

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<p>I know a 2390 from my school, close enough. He had a 4.0 GPA and was a major community leader, wrote amazing essays, amazing recs, amazing EC's and massive awards. Top Applicant</p>

<p>Results: Rejected by all the ivies, except accepted @ Columbia and Cornell.</p>

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<p>^thats harsh.</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=377882%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=377882&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>"Results: Rejected by all the ivies, except accepted @ Columbia and Cornell."</p>

<p>Well, that's two out of eight, and Columbia is one of the toughest.</p>

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<p>2400 international asking for financial aid.</p>

<p>accepted at princeton</p>

<p>waitlisted duke, dartmouth</p>

<p>rejected by all other Ivies, UofC, MIT, Stanford.</p>

<p>i am unbelieveably lucky, and i thank my lucky stars. proves that 2400 is not everything - even the supposed SAT-biased schools like duke and dartmouth waitlisted me... it suggests that i would have been outright rejected if it weren't for my 2400. i think it was the essays that got me into Princeton, and i can't believe my luck... it hasn't even sunk in yet.</p>

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<p>edit of my previous post: 2400...accepted at MIT & Caltech & Harvard & Princeton & Penn & Williams & Amherst & Dartmouth, rejected at Yale & Stanford & Swarthmore, waitlisted at all other Ivies & UChicago & JHU.</p>

<p>commentary: I'd say that 2400 was pretty influential. The only person who got into Yale from my school also had a 2400.</p>

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<p>My son hit the lottery- accepted at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, MIT, UChicago (did not get merit scholarship), Amherst, Swarthmore, Haverford. Not sure where he'll go yet.</p>

<p>Also had 3 800s on SAT2s, private school, worked very hard, got good grades and recommendations (presumably)- the latter items are probably more important as many people take SAT prep courses (he self-studied, took it once). Some of the top schools only take 30% of 800 scorers (see for example Brown's website although they don't give total score).</p>

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<p>This might explain, in part, why students with high scores are not necessarily guaranteed admission to top-tier schools.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/education/01admission.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/education/01admission.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I remember a 2360 from '06. Rejected CalTech + MIT. Accepted at Harvard, Pton, Stanford, Cornell, Columbia, and UPenn. Didn't have significant ECs, but probably wrote great essays + great recs.</p>

<p>2300 from my school with decent to great everything else ---> UCB Regents and that's all</p>

<p>Scores are definitely not everything. 31 ACT and low subject scores (highest was a 700). Accepted Pton + Brown + UChicago. Great ECs + recs, though, probably. Great high school, classes, and GPA. Waitlisted at Yale and Stanford.</p>