<p>Has anyone had any experience with non college-savvy people that made short-sighted assumptions about some of the most competitive colleges (i.e, you'll never be rejected from Princeton with a 4.0, if you're from Wyoming you'll atuomatically get accepted to MIT, a black kid with a 3.5 can go to any college)? I think the assumption that high SATs means an auto-accept at any college is a common one I've hit.</p>
<p>a kid in my school scored 210 on the PSAT and everyone told him to apply to harvard for a sure acceptance. my school is nothing but non college-savvy people. that is both good and bad.</p>
<p>and sadly, a lot of the kids at my school don't even know what AA is, nor do they believe a black student could have a 3.5 gpa.</p>
<p>i win.</p>
<p>ha... my father is one of those people who thinks just because my SAT score is decent I'll be able to get in pretty much anywhere. I try to explain that a 2100 isn't even that great but he doesn't want to hear about it.</p>
<p>My father thinks that I can get in anywhere based solely on geographic residence. (Of around a dozen top applicants at my school, only one got into Harvard.)</p>
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<p>where do you go to school, 1950??</p>
<p>I have definitely had that experience, especially with older relatives. They obviously applied to college when it was much less competitive, so as soon as I got back my SAT scores and they were good (only 10 pts. less than my target score), they thought I could go anywhere. It was no use trying to explain that there's no guarantees for anyone anymore. They just kept going back to, "But you got a xxxx on your SATs!"</p>
<p>yea amanda i've noticed this as well, my brother graduated from high school in 1994 he had the same courseload as me except only like a 3.50 GPA, a 1140 SAT score, and practically no EC's. He got accepted into UVA and William and Mary... I'm just like that wouldn't happen today...</p>
<p>also we are asian, were asians considered URMs back then?</p>
<p>Yale's acceptance rate when my parents graduated was around 35%.</p>
<p>That is just mindboggling nowadays.</p>
<p>... I wish college admissions wasn't so competitive these days, but like the "old" days</p>