<p>it says that a URM with a 90 average and a 1100 SAT has a good shot at cornell</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blackexcel.org/cornell.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.blackexcel.org/cornell.htm</a></p>
<p>"If you can get close to 1100, you can place yourself in the ballpark."</p>
<p>Yea, maybe the nose-bleed seats.</p>
<p>Oh well, I understand the point of the article is to encourage more minority students to apply to top schools and it certainly is optimistic. I would love to see documentation of how these "close to 1100" SAT score students do once/if they get in.</p>
<p>i see the point of the article, but I think it might be pumping in some false hope.</p>
<p>I hope that's false.</p>
<p>1100, what? Dude, that would be like getting an 800 total on the old SAT, I don't think Cornell even considers that.</p>
<p>Maybe if you were black, a recruited athlete, AND a legacy...</p>
<p>I have no idea, I just made that up. 1100 sounds a little off-base though. (but they're definitely talking about old SAT on that page)</p>
<p>That's total ********. False hope indeed.</p>
<p>My daughter got a 1700 on the Sat with a 90 avgh, and got into Cornell.</p>
<p>Sweet....lol..i have a chance</p>
<p>Those profiles are very outdated (fyi), like from a decade or half a decade ago (with the exception of the schools that say "new!" that doesn't include Cornell).</p>
<p>Ya definitely not very true...I'm sure that paul's daughter was exceptional, and that points out one thing special about Cornell - they do look at the full person! So there is always hope.</p>
<p>I'd assume they meant 1100 old SAT--the new ones have only been around for a year and this page doesn't feel real new. (They refer to an average 32% acceptance rate, too.)</p>
<p>that article is like from 1996, standards change, this thread implies that URMs are below the other applicants which is not true, especially not in my case or any of my friends that got into cornell and other ivies</p>
<p>goodcolleges, i wouldn't get my hopes up too high even knowing that someone got in with a 1700. that girl was prolly a small percentage of people who scored that low who got in. and besides, maybe that applicant had something special in her essays, recs, etc. that made her appealing. just make sure ur entire application gives a picture of you. </p>
<p>and to prove that article somewhat wrong, i know a white girl who scored 1060 on the old SATs who got into cornell. what made her special was that she was state champion in track ... except she turned down the ED decision for another school.</p>
<p>well, it's well known that athletes are given preferential treatment by the ivies as well. that doesn't really prove anything...</p>
<p>Just FYI, Caltech's SAT Verbal score range is 460-800 (<a href="http://admissions.caltech.edu/admissions/faqs/#frosh_tests_qa3)%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.caltech.edu/admissions/faqs/#frosh_tests_qa3)</a>. So yes, top schools (including Cornell) did accept students with low SAT scores.</p>
<p>While the profile is outdated, the premise is true. A URM with an 1100 SAT score (and I know a few) is not common but certainly not out of the question. Usually the people who are on the lower end of the spectrum are those from NYS who are in the HEOP/EOP program (which is not just for URMs). The state programs make particular exceptions for people from low income backgrounds who might not have the stats but have the potential to do the work.</p>