<p>Competitive SAT I scores for the Ivies? SAT II's?</p>
<p>I hear 760+ is good for SAT II's and 2250+ for Ivies? How much does it differ between Ivies (i.e. yale and cornell)?</p>
<p>I think 2250+ is good enough for any ivy</p>
<p>Only on CC is a 730 not good enough for the ivy league</p>
<p>Regarding the SAT reasoning test:</p>
<p>Competitive is a very loose term. Anything 700+ per section will get you into the game, as I would put it. There are no strict cut-offs, though, and this works both ways. While you don’t necessarily need all 700+ scores, at the same time there is no magic score where, if you hit it, you can’t possibly improve your admissions chances from there score-wise (unless you literally cannot raise it any higher; 800s in other words). Not that I would advocate retaking an SAT that is already mid 700s+ per section, but if you can get higher, maybe you should because there is still a bit of wiggle room for admissions improvement. With that said, just because you have a 2300+ and you think you can get a 2400 doesn’t mean you should retake the test; at that point, the returns are by large negligible.</p>
<p>And yet again, there remain exceptions to what I just said. Say you earned a 2300 and your score breakdown was 770 CR, 760 M, and 770 W. I would avoid retaking. But if you have 700 CR, 800 M, and 800 W, and you can raise your CR score into at least the mid-700s, definitely go for it because CR is probably the most important section on your SAT and having 700 flat might hurt your chances at some of the Ivies. Overall, you can’t claim a 2250 is all you need for maximizing your chances at admission, but yes, it’s certainly “competitive.”</p>
<p>SAT subject tests:</p>
<p>750+ is the general guideline for being Ivy-competitive. I do think you should also try to maximize these though, if your goal is to get the most out of your scores for admission.</p>
<p>750+ should be the goal. Take a look at Brown and Amherst who post admissions by test score. There is a fall off at 1500/2250…</p>
<p>And it differs pretty significantly between HYP and Cornell, for two reasons: 1) one of the reasons that HYP are top-ranked is that 25% of their incoming class is 790+; 2) Cornell has the contract (state) colleges in which it admits kids for things based on fit. Test scores aren’t so important when applying to the Hotel school, for example, but hospitality ECs are extremely important.</p>
<p>A 2250 + great essays + ED at Cornell…</p>
<p>Thanks. How about this: Below which point (score) would you say an SAT I score would become a drag on your application to the Ivies?</p>
<p>And what is weighted more heavily: SAT I or SAT II?</p>
<p>SAT I is definitely weighted heavier than SAT II’s but SAT II’s are important as well.</p>
<p>“Ivies admit about 2k kids each annually, and I am willing to bet a whole lot of money that a good amount of 2000s and 2100s.”</p>
<p>I don’t get this sentence? what about those 2000s and 2100s? are those SAT scores or waht?</p>
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<p>~700 for an unhooked candidate.</p>
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<p>Of those that do, they come with a hook. (Don’t forget that the SAT scores are not additive. Just because a college’s 25th % on the three tests is 670 does not mean that the 25th for the total test is 670*3 = 2010.)</p>
<p>^ And similarly, no one should get the idea that 25% of Harvard students have 2370 or above. they don’t.</p>