<p>We've all heard this before but it's still a New York Times article so if you're interested:</p>
<p>Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen.</p>
<p>link: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html</a></p>