<p>For asians,</p>
<p>at what point will SAT scores be "sufficient"?</p>
<p>Will a sacred 2300 not be held against a student? Ive often heard claims of how 2200 is "low" for an ORM. </p>
<p>At what cutoff point will SAT score cease to matter? Like at what cutoff will SAT score be useless in gauging an applicant? 2300? 2340?</p>
<p>You steoreotypical son of a…</p>
<p>Seriously, if you score 2380, there will be other races who get 2400. So what’s it gonna be? How can you base this off on type of race you are?</p>
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<p>I hate how majority of asians (51%+) care so much about grades, jesus. “OMG I got 95% I fail I didn’t get 100%!! NOOO!”</p>
<p>Fine, for ALL Applicants, at what point will SAT scores not be important?</p>
<p>He’s not being stereotypical, melin720. Don’t be so hard on him.</p>
<p>He’s being a racist. You should be much harder on him.</p>
<p>Oh to answer your question, since you’re asian and all, you’ll never be good enough. Ever. Stop trying.</p>
<p>I’d estimate about a 2100-2200, but only if you’re interesting. If you’re boring, you hardly have a chance, even with a 2400.</p>
<p>^ Wise words.</p>
<p>I know this is taboo here, but can I ask which college you’re talking about? Every single college has a different standard. Some colleges don’t care about SATs at all. Some colleges don’t care about affirmative action or race. </p>
<p>We’re supposed to make generalizations about every college in the United States, generalizations that are impossible to make because there isn’t enough information and the question is itself reliant on a faulty assumption.</p>
<p>Just practice the tests a lot and do the best you can. If you feel like doing so, go for a retake. Keep your grades up while taking the most challenging courses offered at your school. Fall in love with an EC and put a lot of time into it and gain a leadership position. Write a solid, interesting essay that progresses logically, flows gracefully and speaks in a clear voice that is truly yours. Teacher recs are important as well. Oh yeah . . . and get a life!</p>
<p>^^^The SAT will be unimportant when you family makes a donation. A BIG donation.</p>
<p>Lets talk about top 10 colleges.</p>
<p>HYPSM Penn, U of C, Columbia, Duke and Caltech.</p>
<p>At what point, will SAT scores be no longer held against an applicant? </p>
<p>Note while someone can win a nobel and score a 2100 on SAT, while having minimal impact, the SAT score is still technically held unfavorably against the applicant, especially if asian.</p>
<p>I’d say that the score becomes negligible when you hit approximately 770 per section; disregard the writing section as most schools still don’t care about it. I’d prefer 770 per section over a 750CR and 800M, even though the latter composite score (1550) is higher than the former (1540).</p>
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Because race determines standard in elite college admissions. An Asian-American with a 2050 is not looking at the same schools as an African-American with a 2050.
I don’t see why you guys are railing on the OP; he asked a legitimate question and hasn’t said anything wrong. Unless he edited it out in his original post (IDK?).</p>
<p>750 per test…</p>
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<p>Surprising objectivity coming from you. :)</p>
<p>how opal mehta got wild or whatever or how Laura Wong got wild lol
i.e get a life</p>
<p>750 per section for a total of 2250. Though I personally believe that after 2200+, the subjective portions of the application play a greater role. An SAT score won’t get you in…it’ll only get you considered.</p>
<p>At no point is an additional increase in SAT score completely disregarded. A 2400 is greater than a 2350 no matter how you look at it.</p>
<p>You racist ******. </p>
<p>Just **** and go ■■■■■ elsewhere.</p>
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<p>I’m actually not that mad at this guy. He’s asking a fairly common question. I just hate the way people seem to think that they can just roll on in here and expect a detailed, specific answer to a vague, nonsensical question (“Like, at what point do colleges stop caring about SATs”) and get peeved when they don’t get what they want within seven minutes. </p>
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<p>And neither of them can coast into any Ivy League university with just that going for them. Because these highly-selective schools are bombarded with amazing applicants; the kinds of people who have SAT scores of 2400, 4.0 GPAs in the most rigorous courses available to them, etc. Even if if every college gives affirmative action the exaggerated weight that College Confidential does, that is still a comparatively miniscule proportion of the number of students admitted to any Ivy League college. That is why they have to be holistic; because they can’t admit all the kids who definitely “deserve” to be there based on the merits of their application, even with affirmative action, even with SAT scores. Trying to tease out the SAT scores and find a definite cutoff is an exercise in futility since each of us can probably whip out an anecdote to support whatever point we would like to make.</p>
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<p>This is probably the best advice that the OP can get from this thread. There’s no real cut off, but you’re pretty much obligated to score as high as you can since you’ll be competing with kids who not only have that perfect 2400 but have amazing grades and extracurricular activities and community service roles and leadership experiences and all that other stuff you can read about if you went to Harvard forum.</p>
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A well-intentioned but naive post. A hook is a hook, not a tip or a pull factor. It gets you in, not helps you get in.</p>
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<p>This is theoretically correct.</p>