<p>I’ve been rejected once and that was for fall 2013.The reason I think was because I had a low SAT score:1760;610 in critical reading,580 in maths and 570 in writing.After prepping for the SAT again and seeing tremendous improvement,I took this May 2014 SAT which I hope to get really good scores so I can apply again to Harvard.</p>
<p>@Noble457: That’s quite the venture you have laid out for yourself. But you’re only in for disappointment if you think SATs will make you a viable candidate. Plus, do you think you improved ~500 points? Are you currently on a gap year? What have you been doing? To be blunt, applying in 2012 with a 1760 SAT was a fool’s errand and either you were given very poor advice or just assumed a miracle would befall you. Are you current in college? Planning on applying to a wide variety of schools? Please say “yes”</p>
<p>@gibby, @coureur, —To clarify previous suggestions, no, I was not a transfer athlete. I am a parent of two recruited Ivy student-athletes, one an EA admit, the other an RA admit.</p>
<p>I was declined as a freshman applicant, wait listed and declined as a sophomore transfer, and accepted as a junior transfer. The big thing to take away is that I was competitive with the other transfer applicants, which is to say, a 3.9+ GPA in a tough program at a nationally respected school, major college ECs, and a great story about what brought me to the first school and why I needed to switch.</p>
<p>@T26E4:Yeah I was naive back then and yeah I wisened up.I’m applying to colleges in which I have a better chance of being accepted as well.My scores for the May 2014 SATs are in and I had an 1890…600 in CR,670 in maths and 610 in writing(a 130 points improvement). :(</p>
<p>@Nobel457: You will have to be exceptional in other ways to be accepted with those SAT scores! While they would be considered excellent by many colleges, few students with similar scores are accepted to Harvard. Will you be a transfer applicant, if you had previously applied for fall 2013?</p>