<p>potomac...What the hell kind of school do you go to where a 1540 and a 93 average are undeserving of Cornell, NYU, and Duke? Isn't a 1540 over the 75% at Cornell and NYU at least? You're not giving much hope with stats like those.</p>
<p>well not many people knew of my sat score because I took the new sat in January. I, however, had taken a prep course with one of my classmates 2nd semester junior yr, where I averaged high 600s to low 700s, so people assumed I wouldnt do that well; however, on the real thing, which I took in senior yr, I did surprisingly well.</p>
<p>also, the highest gpas in my school are in the 97-99 range, and most of those kids who applied to Duke and/or Cornell did not get in or were waitlisted. I dont know what was in my app that got me in :confused:</p>
<p>A friend of mine had a 1290/1600 a few years back. Rejected at Rice and GATech, accepted to Stanford and MIT. (URM, really high GPA, class prez, had immigrated). Guess that explains it. :P</p>
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How dare stanford and MIt let idiots with that low of SAT score get into their school!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>^Hey calm down. He's my friend, you got guts callin' him an idiot.</p>
<p>Besides, he had just come to the US a short while ago and that probably explained his low verbal score.</p>
<p>He sure does have a high GPA for an idiot . . . especially since he graduated MIT, went to Stanford for grad school and was paid, and currently works for a job in the east coast with a near 6 figure or above salary. Two of his siblings go to Cornell.</p>
<p>So you don't have to cure cancer, so long as you run reallllllllllly fast or jump realllllly high or can row in unison</p>
<p>And sometimes those student athletes grow up to be excellent businessmen and women, with great interpersonal skills, a great education, and good connections. They go on to earn large sums of money and donate to the scientist who then finds the cure for cancer, for example</p>
<p>There is room enough in this world and yes, elite schools for many.
GPA and SAT are not necessarily the strongest predictor of success--there is drive, charisma, and good old common sense</p>
<p>the only person to get into an ivy in my class was the girl who had no common sense and was one of the dumbest people i have ever met. Well her daddy went to Harvard Med and donated a lot of money, and shes not a URM. Guess that says it all.</p>
<p>How 'bout the guy who served as personal assistant to the Presiden and recently stepped down to attend Harvard Business School. Doesn't have an undergrad degree. Never graduated from college....Oh, but he did date Jenna Bush...The news report I heard commented that the letter of reference from the man in the oval office was a bit of a plus!!.....Not what you know, but WHO you know.</p>
<p>This thread needs to chill out.</p>
<p>Who cares if you get into an Ivy or not?</p>
<p>If you are truly so great, you will get into at least one good school, and chances are, you will get a scholarship. The other top schools give scholarships, unlike the ivies.</p>
<p>Sure, kids of all different abilities and talents get into the select few schools the people on this website idolize, but the fact is that there are numerous other institutions that rival the Ivies in quality of education and opportunity.</p>
<p>If someone with lower stats gets into Harvard or Yale or whereever, great for them. If you didn't? Get over it. </p>
<p>I had had my heart set on a certain ivy for the longest time, and was deferred and then rejected. But, through all of the admissions craziness, I was offerred a full scholarship to another school, and truth be told, I would much rather go there instead of that ivy.</p>
<p>I know a kid with so-so stats that got into HYP (URM+sport), and he chose one of them, and struggled his first year of college. Was it worth it for the school to admit him? I think so. He is a good guy. I applied two years later to his school with higher number stats and did not get in. Was I upset? Not really.</p>
<p>If not getting into an Ivy League school is the worst dilemma on earth to you, take a reality check.</p>
<p>PanHandle ... he had amazing EC's though and killer essays. The president's unofficial chief-adviser doesn't apply to college everyday you know. Plus its not like he wasn't intelligent, he scored VERY well on the Graduate Management Admissoin Test.</p>
<p>what is a urm?</p>
<p>urm- under-represented minority</p>
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<p>I really think this type of applicants is exaggerated. How many students' parents will have a few million dollars, and be willing to donate that much to a college? Very very few.</p>
<p>On topic, I'm not sure why people on CC are so eager for these threads. For every "underqualified" applicant I could name ten more applicants who were more qualified, more deserving, but who didn't get in. Chances are, you are one of these ten kids, not the one "underqualified" applicant.</p>
<p>Haha, this is hilarious... my friend's ex got into Stanford and Gonzaga with a 3.0 ... But he does varsity crew and his team is one of the tops in the country... so what can I say? THe other two Havard-goers are actually hella smart though - valedictorian + vasity crew; crazy genius who is about to solve world hunger...</p>
<p>I knew two guys from my high school who went to Harvard, and neither of them impressed me intellectually. One was a good football player and he was a star at Harvard. </p>
<p>The other was a guy whom I thought would have been overwhelmed even at B.U. He had SATs in the 600s, a good GPA, but was naive and boring. His hook was that he was from suburban Boston, and his father had been in the Carabineri (not sure about the spelling...those Italian federal cops with the wierd hats) during WWII, and had emigrated to the USA in the 1950s. His household was middle class and very traditionally Italian--they made their own wine, etc. He said that the reason Harvard took him was that he was so different from the usual applicants.</p>
<p>This student got into one of HYP(name withheld), ranking less than 50% not very good in english or math/sciences (so SATs must be bad unless worked very hard or something), no legacy, not athlete, hook: studied many languages during high school.</p>
<p>hooray for affirmative action!</p>
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<blockquote> <p>studied many languages during high school. That really helps?</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I bet a Native American can get in anywhere</p>