<p>I agree with blossom, for example at my high school, kids with 1500/1600 SAT scores and GPAs of 102 or better (don’t know how to translate that to 4.0 scale) have about a 50% chance of getting into Harvard. That’s a lot better than you’d think, keeping in mind that many of those top students are also Intel semi-finalists, Davidson scholars and other cool stuff. Same kids applying to Stanford have a zero percent chance. (Didn’t stop mathson from trying, he got rejected too.)</p>