<p>^^The question's in the title...in fact, the title is the question!</p>
<p>Check the websites.</p>
<p>they do, except Brown iirc.</p>
<p>my cousin went to harvard and is now interviewing applicants, and they told her that the scores don't really matter all that much. it's not like state schools where there are cut-offs. they could fill their class with 2400s several times over. </p>
<p>basically harvard accepts people who are in three main groups: school-smart people who are assumed to have very high grades and scores; people who have accomplished something really big, and have good grades and scores, but they don't need as high grades and scores but they need high enough to show they can handle the work but the main reason they're getting in is because they started a homeless shelter or sent an experiment on the space shuttle or something; people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds or sick/disabled, but they made the best of their schools, so they will have really high grades in their school but their test scores might not be so high b/c of their background. </p>
<p>so i wouldn't worry too much about the strategy. if your grades and reccs and essay are good, but tests not so good, but you have a reason for that, apply.</p>
<p>basically, the ivys don't spend much time thinking about scores. they look at the scores to see if they make sense with the rest of the application. hopefully everything lines up. if it doesn't line up, they deliberate.</p>