<p>I got a 2400 on my SAT as a junior. People kepp telling me that I can go to any school I want now. Seriously, how much emphasis do the ivies put on SAT scores?</p>
<p>I have posted more of my stats in the WHat are my chances thread?</p>
<p>You have a good shot...</p>
<p>I hope that they care about it a lot...I'm in the same boat as you, and I'm not sharing my score because I'm tired of "You'll get in anywhere...blahblahblah." NOT TRUE, I can tell you that. However, Dartmouth, WashU, and Duke are top schools that care a lot about SATs. Just for the record. We have a good shot at top schools, but it's not at all a guarantee.</p>
<p>Yeah, Dartmouth is much more heavy on the numbers than some other comparable schools. For example, over 30% of admitted students are Valedictorian and around 15 percent are Salutatorian. However, at Brown, only 15 percent of their admitted students were Valedictorian. This means that Brown isn't as impressed by a high class rank as Dartmouth, since the applicant pool for both schools is pretty much comparable. </p>
<p>All the Ivies + Stanford, MIT, etc look for varying things in their students. Standardized test scores are set at different priority levels for each.</p>
<p>hi ra. post a link to your chance thread in this thread too, so you have a higher chance of being chanced :)</p>
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However, at Brown, only 15 percent of their admitted students were Valedictorian. This means that Brown isn't as impressed by a high class rank as Dartmouth, since the applicant pool for both schools is pretty much comparable.
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<p>At Brown, 32% of valedictorians who applied were admitted. Just like with a 2400 SAT score, such a stat raises one's chances (considering 14% is the overall admit rate to the university) and so it helps. For those with an 800 in CR, 28% were admitted to Brown. For those with an 800 in Math, 26% were accepted. But at highly selective colleges, the decision doesn't rest on stats alone. Many who apply have top stats and so it is all the other things that sets candidates apart. So, yes, the excellent 2400 SAT score will increase the odds, but alone will not tip one into the admit pile.</p>
<p>Yea, do not depend on a 2400 to get you into any college. It isn't even sure if you have a good chance. Compared to college work, SAT is easy, and they know that. This kid at my school got a 2400 and he got rejected from a lot of ivies and ended up at Duke. Duke is a good university but it depends what you are aiming for.</p>
<p>a 2400 means that you're probably going to get into a college, lol. You can probably get into many top 100 school with decent gpa and minimal ecs I bet.</p>
<p>"At Brown, 32% of valedictorians who applied were admitted"</p>
<p>Yes, but that's not what I said. 15 percent of admitted students were valedictorian. This is different (but not incompatable) with stating that 32% of valedictorians were accepted. </p>
<p>Either way, based on the numbers provided by these two universities, it's pretty obvious that Dartmouth weighs numbers much more heavily than Brown does, which was my original point. I mean, if Brown really wanted too, it could up its numbers through the roof simply because of the numerical strength of its applicants.</p>
<p>holy crap 2400 good job man</p>
<p>"32% of valedictorians who applied were admitted"
But that statement is more in line with ra1990's situation. Do you think he would like to know the amount of 2400 relative to the rest of the school, or would he prefer to know the chances of a 2400 getting into the school.</p>
<p>Congrats! Obviously, it will help a lot.</p>
<p>A great SAT won't get you in, but it won't keep you out. Obviously you can't do better than a 2400, so now you can focus on everything else to strengthen your app even more. Congrats!</p>
<p>thanks for your help guys</p>
<p>Here is the link to my stats in the other thread</p>
<p>2400 is very impressive - and good because you can now focus your attention elsewhere. The most selective schools will be pleased, but it's not a ticket to any of them.</p>
<p>are you a junior now or a senior?</p>
<p>You certainly have a better than average shot at any college but:</p>
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Despite perfect scores on the SAT and ACT, a LBJ Liberal Arts Academy student failed to make it into his dream schools.</p>
<p>Things were going, well, perfectly for Navonil Ghosh up until several weeks ago.</p>
<p>The college-bound LBJ High School Liberal Arts and Science Academy senior racked up more than 400 hours volunteering in local hospitals and libraries. He plays the piano, is a first-degree black belt in Kung Fu and got a perfect score on both the SAT and ACT college entrance exams. Ghosh had mailed out all of his college applications and was just waiting for the acceptance letters to come pouring in.</p>
<p>But the letters that began filling his mailbox were of a different kind.</p>
<p>The first rejection came from Stanford University in California, but the hits kept coming. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From Ivy League institutions: University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale, where he was wait-listed. But the biggest disappointment came from Harvard University, which Ghosh had chosen as his dream school based on the course offerings. Even the Plan II honors program at the University of Texas turned him down.
The</a> College Planning Blog Blog Archive Will Perfect SAT and ACT Scores Get YOUR Student In?
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<p>^There are threads on this article. The consensus was that something must have gone wrong beyond test scores. His ECs were weak, but that doesn't explain the rejections from everywhere except Caltech, Duke (?), and a few others.</p>
<p>That being said, don't get cocky: the message of the article is true.</p>
<p>Whatever, he still got into CalTech and Duke...</p>
<p>You're screwed. You won't get in anywhere.</p>