Admit Stats/Interviews/Hope

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See bottom of [Rice</a> University | Prospective Students](<a href=“http://www.futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Admission_Statistics.asp?SnID=2]Rice”>http://www.futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Admission_Statistics.asp?SnID=2)</p>

<p>I also have this from MIT, although the link appears now to be dead.
Middle 50% score range of admitted students:
SAT Subject Test - Math [730, 800]
SAT Subject Test - Science [700, 800]</p>

<p>Sorry, no detail about what kind of science or math tests (although I think you can anticipate that almost all MIT applicants take Math II).</p>

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<p>Hello, the DAily Princetonian is a student newspaper that revealed a joke issue </p>

<p>[Princeton</a> sees steep drop in applications for Class of 2014 - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/01/13/24885/]Princeton”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/01/13/24885/)</p>

<p>Dont take it seriously.</p>

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<p>And here is a question for anybody who can answer: Are the admissions decisions revealed by email (I know Harvard by email) or by online status check. And at what time? Like 5 PM on March 30 or what?</p>

<p>Btw, for all hopefuls-- April 1st 2010 (ironically April Fools Day) is a Thursday. 12:00 AM is 65 days and 13 hours left</p>

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<p>Last year,
More than 2,500 of Harvard’s 27,462 applicants scored a perfect 800 on the SAT critical reading test, and 3,300 had 800 scores on the SAT math exam. More than 3,300 were ranked first in their high school class.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/education/01admission.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/education/01admission.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Last year,
Yale accepted 1,892 students out of 22,813 applicants for an admit rate of 8.3 percent — its lowest ever — while Harvard accepted 1,948 out of 27,462 applicants.</p>

<p>In 2007, (Class of 2011)
Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html?pagewanted=print[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html?pagewanted=print&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The colleges at Cornell that offer programs of study most similar to the other colleges on the list in #40 are Arts & sciences and engineering. Admission there is by college. The most recent stats for Cornell’s Arts & sciences college are CR 640-740, M 660-770.
For engineering : CR 640-730, M720-790.
Approximately 1/3 of its undergrads are enrolled in Arts & sciences, while about 1/5 are enrolled in the engineering college.</p>

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<p>[The</a> Back Door to the Yard | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/6/6/the-back-door-to-the-yard/]The”>The Back Door to the Yard | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>old article from 2001. talks about z-list, forced deferrment for 1 year</p>

<p>The Crimson obtained information about the legacy status of 36 of the approximately 80 Z-list students at Harvard in 2001-02. Though McGrath Lewis insists the Z-list is “not a legacy list,” 26—or 72 percent of the 36-student sample—were legacies, compared with 12 to 14 percent of the class as a whole.</p>

<p>Even if none of the remaining 44 or so Z-list students were legacies, 33 percent of the 80 students would be legacies—still well above the proportion of legacies in the class as a whole.</p>

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<p>MIT link wasn’t dead. Here’s 2009 where you can find subject test data.</p>

<p>[MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml)</p>

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<p>interesting…so if you apply to harvard with a perfect SAT score, you actually have a 2/3 chance of getting in? i find that hard to believe…</p>

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<p>Only 15,661 students applied to MIT last year. Could you imagine the application spike if MIT switched to the Common Application?</p>

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<p>Stupefy, what’s your math on that?</p>

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<p>^“In 2007, Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam.”
that’s out of approx 3,300 applicants who had perfect 800 on math</p>

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<p>People also have to remember the ACT. With a 2070 on the SAT I was in the sub-2100 group and wouldn’t have stood a chance at getting admitted, but had a 34 on the ACT. So some of us sub-2100s are still competitive.</p>

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<p>[SAT-ACT</a> Conversion chart](<a href=“http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/lccounseling/SAT-ACT_Conversion_chart.htm]SAT-ACT”>http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/lccounseling/SAT-ACT_Conversion_chart.htm)</p>

<p>This is an ACT/1600 scale/2400 scale conversion chart. </p>

<p>@Dbate: did u send in your 2070 score to the Ivies?</p>

<p>And this is just a random comment that came out of my head and may very well be wrong. I dont think the Ivies look at ACT favorably unless ur from the Midwest (Chicago, Detroit etc.) The premise of this comment is the Ivies have to submit their averages to Collegeboard and US News (which I do not believe convert ACTs to SATs). There is no equivalent score average reporting service, as far as I know for the ACT.</p>

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<p>@Stupefy, I thought the same thing. Which is comforting for merit-worthy applicants.</p>

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<p>I submitted my SAT score as well. I think there is an admission bias against the ACT though, I was a hooked applicant (black) and the other minorities who scored comparable to my ACT score, but did so on the SAT got accepted to HY and P, whereas I was rejected from Princeton and Harvard.</p>

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still find it hard to believe. I didnt get a perfect on math, but I did get a perfect on reading and writing (reading has the lowest number of perfects, i believe) and it seems like MOST of the people with these scores still dont get in. I mean, i saw a statistic somewhere on princeton’s website that said 50% of 2400s were rejected</p>

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<p>I support and uphold the same belief. I was involved in a couple discussions regarding this recently:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/573451-how-many-people-get-into-harvard-has-sat-2400-a-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/573451-how-many-people-get-into-harvard-has-sat-2400-a-2.html&lt;/a&gt; (See post #21.)</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/843741-sat-better-than-act-princeton.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/843741-sat-better-than-act-princeton.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Oh, and I realize that the College Board recently updated standardized testing scores on the university webpages. So please forgive any discrepancies that may be present within the citations I used in the posts from the above links.</p>

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<p>this is a website posted by descartez on another thread.</p>

<p>This shows number of admits from each state, each year for the millennium decade.
<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W026_Fresh_byState.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W026_Fresh_byState.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I think it is also perfect for this thread. thx, descartez</p>

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<p>And the Harvard interview people deadline is tomorrow-- Sunday, January 31, 2010 or Monday, February 1, 2010.
Yale’s interview deadline (from AdmissionsAddict) is Monday, February 15, 2010.</p>