Do the kids with 2400 get rejected because...

[Shaggy007]

<p>Getting a 2400 will not cause your chances to drop in admissions. If you get rejected, you’ll know that it was for some other reason. SAT scores are just a part of the application.</p>

[silverturtle]

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Silverturtle, you didn’t put on your apps the fact that you have posted a mildly famous, widely-used, and respected SAT guide that you wrote-- at no gain to yourself-- on collegeconfidential? That would have seriously helped. You gave a lot back to this community.

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<p>An MIT admissions officer advised me that it was risky to do so, and I agreed. I did think that mentioning it in the Princeton waitlist update made risk-reward sense, though; so I included it there.</p>

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Silverturtle - What is going on with Princeton?

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<p>Based on rumored yield numbers and the present and historical data, very few if any students will be admitted off the waitlist. Officially, Princeton has been mum. Fortunately, I am happy with Brown.</p>

[bclintonk]

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@LoremIpsum

Brown takes about 20% of those applicants who scored 800 in ANY of the three categories, according to their data page. There is no stat for composite SATs. ACT 36s, however, are separated out with a 32% acceptance rate. That’s a nice 3.5-fold boost for a single achievement, but still a very long way from a guarantee of admission.

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<p>Good catch, my mistake. That’s what happens when I try to do these things from memory.</p>

<p>On the other hand, a 1-in-3 acceptance rate for a perfect ACT score suggests that the acceptance rate for a perfect SAT score is probably in the same ballpark. Bottom line, I think college adcoms are not nearly as impressed with perfect SAT/ACT scores as college applicants are.</p>

[TippuSultan]

<p>silverturtle, thank you for your service to CC community. Wish you all the best for your future endeavors.</p>

[texaspg]

<p>I saw a story in the papers about someone getting a 36 in April. The story said out 1.6 million seniors last year, there were 588 perfect scores for ACT. So with 400 SAT perfect scores, there are close to a 1000 people each year that meet the perfect score description with a few like silverturtle being on both sides which may mean probably 950 or 960 unique people?</p>

[bclintonk]

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The story said out 1.6 million seniors last year, there were 588 perfect scores for ACT. So with 400 SAT perfect scores, there are close to a 1000 people each year that meet the perfect score description . . .

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<p>Maybe a few more. According to the College Board, 382 college-bound Class of 2010 HS seniors scored a perfect 2400. But that’s in a single sitting. There could easily be two to three times that many who scored 2400 with superscoring. I think you need to take colleges at their word when they say they’ll superscore the SAT. Very few superscore the ACT. Still, it’s a very small number, perhaps only 2,000 or so annually who can claim a perfect SAT or ACT score, even with superscoring. Yet schools like Brown reject roughly 2/3 of them, suggesting once again that adcoms are not nearly as impressed with perfect test scores as the applicants are.</p>

[vvip002]

<p>9) College essay was about travel/vacation lolz</p>

[LucrativeLatino]

<p>They were ■■■■■■■■ on CC asking this same exact question.</p>

[LoremIpsum]

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Yet schools like Brown reject roughly 2/3 of them, suggesting once again that adcoms are not nearly as impressed with perfect test scores as the applicants are.

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<p>I also note, however, that the yield for 36ers at Brown is much lower than for the accepted students as a whole: about 31% vs the 53-55% overall yield. That suggests that 36ers overall get multiple offers from top schools, even if they get turned down from a significant number of them. It also suggests that yield management may be a factor – those with 36s whose profiles don’t appear to be a great fit may often get waitlisted or rejected, in part because they are less likely to accept.</p>