<p>Can a 2400 SAT score offset bad GPA, easy classes, lousy essays, bad recs, no ECs and get someone into Harvard?</p>
<p>No
It shows that you were lazy and didn't apply yourself.
It might help you get into a state school, but def. not Harvard.</p>
<p>From what I hear, a phenomenal SAT score could actually hurt you if you have a low GPA... Makes you look like a "lazy genius" sort of person.</p>
<p>It can't hurt THAT much; a 2400 alone will not get you into Harvard though. I was in a sort of similar predicament, with a near-perfect, one-shot SAT score and a relatively low GPA (i'm not in the top 20% of my class, very competitive private school). However, there were no other "deal-breakers" or "holes" in my app (i.e. hard classes, ECs were strong, recs were stronger, essays were stronger still), and I ended up getting accepted. So if you have a high SAT score and a low GPA, don't be too concerned - but at the same time, dont allow yourself to believe that a school like Harvard (or any other selective school, for that matter) will disregard any part of your app because of a high SAT score.</p>
<p>No way./*******************/</p>
<p>SATs don't matter all that much. It's something that no matter how many times it's said to you, you won't believe it until you're actually at college. So, no, it won't help all that much.</p>
<p>If by bad you somehow mean above a 3.5 Unweighted GPA</p>
<p>when you mean bad gpa, how bad?
but no, gpa is VERY VERY important
just because your sat scores are high, that doesn't mean you'll get in</p>
<p>No. A Harvard acceptance really needs an all around solid application. There are probably plenty of 2400s and other high scorers to go around at Harvard.</p>
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when you mean bad gpa, how bad?
but no, gpa is VERY VERY important
just because your sat scores are high, that doesn't mean you'll get in
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like 2.0 gpa</p>
<p>Well -- let's see what Harvard faces. Admit rates were below 9%. I'm sure they would want to admit more but physical space limits that-- all agreed, right?</p>
<p>Given this, I would highly doubt that a 2.0GPA student with a top SAT stands much of a chance. Transcript and HS scholarship are the most weighted items so you're starting off WAY behind and unlikely to bridge the gap to make you a viable candidate. Just my two cents. Good luck regardless. It's obvious that you possess some tools for likely college success. However, given the numbers of competing apps you'd face among the top tier schools, I'd say you're extremely unlikely to be admitted.</p>
<p>lol..if you are one of those geniuses who doesn't apply themselves because high school is too boring (i.e. Einstein) go win an international science or math thingy and you will get into MIT.</p>
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I'd say you're extremely unlikely to be admitted.
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I never said that I actually had a 2.0 gpa score, mine is close to 4.0 (find me where I said I did have one)... I was just asking for a general situation...</p>
<p>No I had a 2400, good ECs, good essays, and a 3.9 GPA and was not accepted. You really have to be outstanding. I was accepted to many other great schools, so it's not like I was defective in any way. It's just that Harvard looks for the best of the best. A 2400 can let you sneak into a 2nd-tier school with "bad GPA, easy classes, lousy essays, bad recs, no ECs" but at Harvard you have to have it all + more.</p>
<p>Why would Harvard admit a 2400 scorer with a low GPA, etc. when they could admit one of the other 2400 scorers with a high GPA?</p>
<p>Because they can....and probably becuase the person with the lower GPA might be a legacy or a URM or some big time award winner or a big time athlete...way too many reasons</p>
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<p>"Can a 2400 SAT score offset bad GPA, easy classes, lousy essays, bad recs, no ECs and get someone into Harvard?"</p>
<p>I don't think URM status would help here, Sheed30.</p>
<p>Harvard rejected over 1000 perfect scorers with amazing stats...what makes you think it cannot reject one more, especially when there is absolutely NOTHING that student could contribute to Harvard and Harvard life</p>
<p>i'm sure they'd accept someone with a good GPA, hard classes, good essays, good recs, and good ec's with a "bad" SAT score than someone who obviously never worked up to their full potential.</p>
<p>as many people have said they also have enough AMAZING all around applicants that they can't even accept them all.</p>
<p>lol.. my bad Jackson..was just feeling it for the minorities out there.</p>