<p><500 in Reading=61
<500 in Math=42</p>
<p>money? sports?</p>
<p>oh wow, that's crazy.. I wonder why?</p>
<p>Recruited athletes are less likely than other hooked as they have specific guidelines. I'd guess someone who has English as a second language for the low CR, for math someone brilliant in the humanities with a math disability. Combine those scenarios with a hook: URM from inner city with great GPA....and you have the few exceptions.</p>
<p>Also, let's not be so naive as to think that Brown is an exception in this particular admission policy. I'm almost certain that other Ivies are harboring their share of low scorers</p>
<p>maybe they are brilliant with super high IQ's but have a learning disability</p>
<p>maybe they have shown extraordinary achievement in other ways</p>
<p>maybe many things.</p>
<p>Last year, someone in my school got into Brown with an SAT score in the 1500's (out of 2400).</p>
<p>lol. maybe they do it to make more people apply .</p>
<p>You have no idea the people going to Brown from my school this year. Athletics are a powerful thing.</p>
<p>And they are hardly the only ones... everybody does it, whether we like it or not.</p>
<p>Again, while they bend considerably for athletes, the biggest bends are not for them. They can't be because the schools have an agreement which sets standards, and index that takes GPA and scores into account, and every athlete must have a minimum score on the index. At my school kid's with a 3.2 need something like a 1300 to make the bottom of the index. Also, most ivies take very few at the bottom of the index.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there is no index for rich legacies, development kids, staff kids or URMs they really want.</p>
<p>I'd also have to say for kids scoring in the 500s, I seriously doubt it's the same kid scoring low on both CR and math. It's a math genius with an 800 who hardly speaks english or a brilliant writer with a math disability.</p>
<p>Its clearly not an athlete, to be recruited they need at least around a 1200 (there are guidelines). Its definitely not someone who is exceedingly smart in one subject area (reading, but not math or vice versa) since they have plenty of kids like that, that do not suck so badly in one area. It is probably someone who is either fantastically rich or has an amazingly close relationship with the school (close friend of president/admissions dean or donated millions upon millions of dollars). Thats what it probably is...Most of the time if you have under 650 in one seciton of the SATs and do not have something amazing going for you (art/athletics/ECS) do not even apply.</p>