Do normal people that get less than a 2000 ever get into harvard?

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<p>I was just wondering. Is it possible?
For a normal non-athlete? I am a white suburbian with no athletic talent whatsoever by the way, and am not asking this for my chances but just as a general question.</p>

<p>Has anyone with a perfect app except test scores ever gotten in? I mean some people just can't do well on those tests because of pressure and other constraints, so i was wondering if people have ever seen confirmed cases of people getting in because other areas outshined test scores.</p>

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<p>i'm pretty sure they have...with these schools you never know...</p>

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<p>possibly, i mean there is that bottom percentile of kids that get in. Yes a majority of that percentile is made up of athletes, and probably urms, but im sure some of must have been normal with no hooks.</p>

<p>Its happened and will probably happen again, although i have not seen it personally.</p>

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<p>No, normal people who get less than a 2000 SAT I do not get into Harvard; however, exceptional people who score less than 2000 occasionally are admitted to Harvard.</p>

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<p>Ivies don't really want normal kids. They want the super freaks with fifteen APs, president positions of half a dozen really important clubs, the student body president, and the star football/soccer/volleyball/tennis/whatever player all mashed into one...</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>what does URM stand for?</p>

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<p>under-represented minority</p>

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<p>Under Represented Minority</p>

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<p>very very rarely.</p>

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<p>I agree that for an unhooked applicant with a SAT below 2000, with no extraordinary ECs, odds are poor. But I disagree with golddustwoman on the EC profile they are looking for - the person spread around 6 clubs and 5 other activities is rarely interesting to them - they generally want someone who has taken a couple of interests to a deeper level. No hard and fast rules, but the student who is all-everything but only stands out within their high school (and isn't low-income or first-gen college apart from being unhooked) is not really much in demand at the very top colleges.</p>

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<p>Anything in life is possible if you make it possible.</p>

<p>I'll stand by that.</p>

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<p>"Normal" people don't get lower than 2000 lol. Just kidding, but I think 2000-ish is already a very "normal" SAT score.</p>

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<p>:)
..... maybe the computer where they file stuff could make a mistake
and send an acceptance letter to someone not on the short list.... :eek:
.....</p>

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<p>Computers don't make mistakes.</p>

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<p>"Normal" computers don't make mistakes.<br>
But the exceptional computers at Harvard do.</p>

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<p>no. never once.</p>

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<p>hahaha nice one vicariousparent</p>

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<p>I believe. . . I don't think this is an urban legend?? . . . that Princeton really did mix up a small batch of acceptance/rejection letters at one point, maybe seven years ago. </p>

<p>They ended up accepting both the kids who got the erroneous rejections and the kids who got the erroneous acceptances.</p>

<p>So in a case like that, yes. I imagine that such a thing could happen at Harvard as well.</p>

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<p>if YOU have lower than 2000, don't count on it</p>

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<p>So if it was someone other than me they would get it in???
besides, U don't know me.
That was a stupid post alohasam89.</p>