<p>“I think you are failing to look at the big picture.”</p>
<p>Admissions Directors probably spend less than five seconds looking at your test scores. They might spend about a minute looking over the courses you took and the grades you received. The big picture is that once your test scores are within a college’s range – and yours are – it all comes down to how an Admissions Director “feels” after reading your essays and teacher recommendations and compares them to all other applicants. That’s true for Harvard and all selective colleges. It’s the reason students with perfect test scores (and Intel winners) sometimes are rejected, while other less-than-perfect students are accepted. It’s also the reason why college admissions is unpredictable. You just have to send your applications out into the universe and hope for the best.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>