<p>Yes I know this is an old type of thread but let's gain some reassurance in Harvard's confidence for applicants with low SAT scores but with awesome and stellar grades and rigorous classes. List the stats/credentials of admits with SAT scores below 1300. Why do you think they got in? Was it the rigor of their classes, hooks, or income. Please tell all that you know. IGNORE this post if you want nothing to do with it.....as in DON'T POST.</p>
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<p>It is difficult to ignore your posts when you flood the board with them. Notice how your exhortations for advice from NSM and Byerly are rarely, if at all, successful; notice, further, that this thread will likely not receive the response you desire, since hardly anyone has the patience or time to look for stats of admits with low SAT scores. </p>
<p>There is a search function. Use it.</p>
<p>apfreak-</p>
<p>You've got to be kidding me right? This must be the 50 billionth time that you've posted up one of these threads. There are 5 days left until decisions. I think you can afford to wait that long. </p>
<p>And just because you put Byerly and NSM's names in the title doesn't mean that they'll actually bother to respond to your incessantly repeated threads. LET IT GO. Decisions are only 5 days away.</p>
<p>Yeah, Byerly and NSM's responses and anecdotes won't change the outcome of Harvard's decision whether to reject or accept you. Chiiillllll.</p>
<p>I love how you expected that disclaimer to stop people from attacking you.</p>
<p>heh...this is funny. don't worry apfreak...i think i have the lowest SAT score of all the non URMs non athletes non legacies. at least you're a urm</p>
<p>gosh, you guys don't have to be mean about it. apfreak, ice cream is a great way of reassurance. You'll find out your decision soon enough. Who knows, before long maybe you can post your stats as one of those "applicants with low SAT scores but with awesome and stellar grades and rigorous classes"</p>
<p>AP Freak-
It seems many will be happy when you get rejected.</p>
<p>That was really uncalled for, desertman.</p>
<p>i hope you get in apfreak. I can tell that it is your dream to go to harvard, so i really hope and wish you all the best!!!</p>
<p>I think people from challenging backgrounds can get in if they focus on their area of achievement, work hard, and then RELAX and maintain a balanced life. It does get on other people's nerves to be nervous--A LOT. It can't be fun for anyone's roommate to live with an uptight fellow student for a year. </p>
<p>Good luck in your applications. You'll have Harvard news in days (which may not be the end of wondering about Harvard, if you are deferred to the regular round as most SCEA applicants are), and you should meanwhile enjoy your senior year and finish up any other applications you still have pending. You'll surely enjoy a good college career and go on to interesting, challenging work if you keep setting high goals for yourself.</p>
<p>I'm not attacking you apfreak. I'm telling you to stop beating a dead horse. You've posted up your whole "can someone get in with low sat's" thing at least a hundred times in different threads/posts. Enough already!!!!!!</p>
<p>Just go watch t.v. or something for the next 5 (4 in 2 hours) days...</p>
<p>lol, i think u guys should chill as well...</p>
<p>guys, just chill. also, it might not make any diff to apfreak (short of providing comfort) but to us juniors, info like this can help. even so, just because we know its possible doenst affect our chances. just because someone with a 1300 got in, it doesnt mean that my scores are going to go up. i think we all need to relax. thats what im doing today. acts tom, ea decisions in a week-we gotta chill out</p>
<p>Honestly speaking Harvard really has rarely, perhaps twice in the last 3 years, accepted a candidate with less than a 1200 on the SATs. </p>
<p>A 1200 is deemed to be the minimum level upon which one may expect a candidate to survive in an ivy league institution. Although by no means am i saying that you cannot survive, im just saying that its common consensus to mark 1200 as the arbitrary minimum level. </p>
<p>There was one person accepted from the Los Angeles Area (unclear if they lived in compton, watts, or south central but one of the three) that had an 1180, but they were 1st in a class of 962 kids, the school they went to was 65% mexican and 35% black, 94% free lunch, and SAT averages in the 750-850 range. She was also a runner and held several leadership postions. She was also an URM who was quite poor.</p>
<p>CaCutie was another example of someone with someone near 1200, but she had a 1280 which is somewhat different. She was also another example of someone who was definitely the BEST in her area. </p>
<p>Then comes the case that I believe will shock you, since this kids story is mind blowing</p>
<p>The kids name was Cedric Jennings, and he was from Southeast DC, in a neighborhood called Anacostia which was twice named the most dangerous 2 square miles in the NATION. He went Ballou High School, which is by far among the most dangerous schools in the nation with on average 1 kid killed within the school walls per year. His dad was in jail, his mother was evicted from her housing project and Cedric and his family lived homeless. His school had an sat average so low that the District of Columbia didnt even release the information for a long time. I believe that the school at that time had an average around 430 and now has about a 650. I mean this kid went through complete hell and still overcame complete hell. From gun shots, crack pipes, gangs of youth roaming the streets, walking to school and walking over dead bodies, i mean Washington DC in the early to mid 90's was a warzone. This kid maintained a 4.0 uw and was BY FAR the best student in the school. He had leadership postions in almost every club, and was sometimes one of the only kids to show up in his class. He was so phenomenal that a book was written about him in his senior year, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, which was a best seller and won many awards and the Pultizer Prize. He was invited to MITES at MIT and did ok. Anyways he applied early to Brown and was accepted, but what was shocking is that he didnt get accepted to Harvard. </p>
<p>His SAT was 910, valedictorian, every club president, MIT MITES, URM, 3rd world poor (poor to a point that he didnt know when his next meal would be). The sal in the class had like a 3.3 and a 600 SAT. </p>
<p>I dont know your life, nor do the adcoms do, but i can "maybe ;-)" guess that you didnt have to struggle as much. Harvard definitely is corky in its admission process, and sometimes although rarely in a situation where rare is an understatement, do they accept kids with SATs below 1200. BUT dont give up, keep pushing, keep praying, you may be the exception this year.</p>
<p>Yes, it's possible to get in with low sats, but extremely unlikely... Maybe if you were an african american from a really bad area.</p>
<p>I do not care whether apfreak is accepted or rejected, though good for him if the former occurs; I do, however, hope he is not deferred or waitlisted. Just imagine the ensuing pandemonium!</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>ten char</p>
<p>I hope he gets rejected, so he can go flood some lesser school's forum with dozens of obnoxious threads. The only difference is that nobody will be there to read them.</p>
<p>That is so mean. Why would you hope that someone's dreams are ruined?</p>