do U KNW anyone who got into a top college with a "LOW" SAT SCORE

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<p>LIST THE SAT SCORE (less than 1300 from old SAT)
Y LIST the NAME of the cOllege, also list the state the person lives in</p>

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<p>how about changing the requirements to lless than 1400s or 2100's (new SAT)
otherwise its almost impossible or they're an athletic recruit</p>

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<p>Are you kidding me? Almost impossible? 25% of the students at Harvard and Yale scored below 1400. And 25% of the students at places like Duke, Penn, and Columbia scored below a 1330. It's not an unusual circumstance when an applicant gets accepted with "mediocre"(accoring to CC) SAT scores.</p>

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<p>yes that is correct. If the AVERAGE sat grade so a college is say 1450, there are 25% of the people that scored less and 25% that scored more.</p>

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<p>Check your #'s, Ryker. Duke's SAT scores are much higher than that.
<a href="http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2009profile.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2009profile.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Anyway, check out My</a> Friends Got Into Good Colleges With Low SAT Scores.</p>

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<p>Those are USNews numbers. They may inlcude two years instead of one.</p>

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<p>mine was 1290. i got into penn.</p>

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<p>1320 - Columbia
1290 - UPenn</p>

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<p>UPenn is public school, they dont count ifyou live in Pennsyvania.</p>

<p>Anyways, I know a guy who got into MIT with a 1390. Yes, very low for that school. But that's cuz he won some national contest dealing with sound waves/dishes, whatever the hell it is.</p>

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<p>Maybe I should make a thread about people with high SAT scores but meager ECs that got into top colleges...</p>

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<p>ahhahahhahah "upenn is a public school"</p>

<p>uhhh. last time i checked, UPENN is pretty damn hard to get into no matter where you're from and not a public school by any means. and sats at UPENN will always matter contrary to what your ridiculous little head thinks.</p>

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<p>I knew this girl who had like a 1200 and a 3.5~ GPA, who got in UCBerkeley. She was super active in school leadership and other ECs.</p>

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<p>Univerisity of Pennsylvania is different from Penn State.</p>

<p>UPenn is an ivy league and has the top business school (Wharton). Definitely not a public school.</p>

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<p>hahahaha upenn is not public. that conception is the bane of their existence.</p>

<p>anyway i know someone who got into cornell with a 1260 or so. but she went to a top private highschool where the counselors have major connections.</p>

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<p>frontline did a good program on going inside UC Berkeley admission meeting. On the website the frontline people put together you are able to see 5 or 6 different students, the top score I believe was a 1490 and the lowest a 1190, they all got in.</p>

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<p>I have a friend who got around <em>1100</em> on the old SAT's (didn't get above 600 for either Verbal or Math) and got into Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Clark Uni, Macalester, Carleton and University of Rochester.</p>

<p>I know someone who got around...hmmm...was it 1320 who got into UPenn and Carleton.</p>

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<p>Hm. I know someone with a 1260 that got into Cornell. You're definitely much safer as you rise in the 1300s though.</p>

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<p>Since we're doing this (and to some extent it is giving hope to all of us), can you guys also list and <em>special</em> circumstance that he/she may have been in? Did this person win some super special award, have a killer essay, URM status, etc.?</p>

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<p>My friend who got into JHU, Wesleyan, Carleton,etc didn't win any super award though she did get a full scholarship summer before senior year to a mid-IB course to Oxford (the university). She was an international student, if that's a hook (Sudanese). I didn't consider her essay as "killer" per se, though they showed her personality quite well.</p>

<p>My friends who got into UPenn (and Carleton and Wellesley), she got the Dartmouth Book Award end of 11th grade and a whole spatter of academic awards throughout her high school years. Co-valedictorian, too. Been at our school for 10 years about (LONG at an international school for an international student), and very friendly and open. I called her "The Quintessential Friendly Person". Uber-perfect. Volleyball team three years, JV basketball three years, captain in 12th grade and part of the tennis or softball team for four years.</p>

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<p>see post # 14 for the mitigating circumstances for 1260 cornell girl.</p>