<p>according to USNEWS**... the middle 50 at harvard is 1400-1580... who are these people getting in below 1400? ('sides legacies)</p>
<p>**('04)</p>
<p>athletes? idk...</p>
<p>SAT's aren't everything...</p>
<p>On the flip side, I scored over 1400, and had no chance at Harvard.</p>
<p>Higher GPA, better essays, better SAT IIs, more APs, more interest in the school; there's a lot of reasons for why this is.</p>
<p>The SAT isn't everything.</p>
<p>Or maybe a ridiculous amount of people score 1380-1400?</p>
<p>i agree with quirkily. a lot of you pretend that it is insanely easy and common to score above 1400. people here respect anything in the 1200's and above because they recognize that there is more to a student than test scores.</p>
<p>The biggest number are recruited athletes. Than there are URMs, development candidates, prodigies and the legacies are the least of them. Those groups actually make up almost 50%, which is why the unhooked need to have scores at about the 75th percentile and up.</p>
<p>And real hooks - e.g., Jody Foster going to Yale. JFK Jr going to Brown.</p>
<p>They are development candidates and colleges are looking for them!</p>
<p>URM"s maybe</p>
<p>25% over 1580?</p>
<p>HAHAHA... boxes points out the other side of it we were all missing...
yea, a fourth of the damn school had either a perfect score or were off by 10... HAHA.... wow...</p>
<p>Those with below 1400 have amazing ECs....</p>
<p>For example, a kid at my school got a 1360.
He made it into Harvard.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>He derived a new, unheard of math formula (forget what it's about) and it got published around the world.... When he was a sophomore.</p>
<p>He also won national competitions in science and such.</p>
<p>He was smart but only in math and science... So his CR was very bad and thus gave him a mediocre SAT. Still, he got into Harvard.</p>
<p>i've heard the term development candidates thrown around in this thread... so what exactly is a development candidate?</p>