<p>I know that both schools care about Sats and GPA a lot, but which school looks past numbers a little more?
Basically, which school is less numbers orientated?</p>
<p>The conventional wisdom seems to be that top private schools are less numbers-driven than top public universities. But when you get into schools like Brown and Dartmouth, for the ordinary un-hooked schlub, that’s likely to mean they care about factors in addition to scores and rank, not that they’ll set aside the numbers for your particular charm and sincerity.</p>
<p>I recall reading on this board somewhere that one of the Ivies tags ~40% of their places for legacy, development, athletic, and other “hooks”. If they are admitting many of these with slightly relaxed academic standards, it means the rest need that much more impressive numbers to keep the class SAT and rank averages up.</p>
<p>They both put a relatively similar amount of emphasis on the numbers. Basically, if you’re unhooked you should have stats above the 75th percentile to have a good chance at acceptance. If you look at the stats you will notice a statistically insignificant difference between the average scores at each school.</p>