Which school out of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT
cares the most about stats (Grades, rank, SAT)
which care the least about them and more about personality and ECs??
From what I heard so far, Stanford and MIT cares more about personality and passion while HYP is more stats based. Correct me if this is false.
<p>They all care about that to a certain degree.</p>
<p>Good Luck,</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>I don't know about Stanford, but MIT is very personality-oriented... supposedly the adcoms don't even glance at the SAT scores after the first "sorting" round.</p>
<p>Really? I thought SATs and GPA are the most important factors for MIT..
Jerod, is 1350~1400 above that certain degree?</p>
<p>SATs and GPA are by far not the most important factor at MIT. They are, however, important to the degree that they are just making sure you are smart enough to handle the work. At least that's the impression I've gotten.</p>
<p>Basically, they could fill their class with 1600s if they cared to. They look past all of the concrete things.</p>
<p>The HYPSM schools et alia have a paradigm roughly as follows: for most applicants, stats are a threshhold. Once you cross that line, you're in the pool and other factors come into play. The "green" zone last year seemed to be around 1540 with comparable grades. The "yellow" zone seemed to be around 1450-1530. </p>
<p>Below 1450 or so, it seemed to be the other way around...something in the rest of your app really had to pull you in through the doorway. </p>
<p>The bottom line is that there are nine and sixty ways to get admitted to HYP. But there's no magic bullet: unless maybe you're a Hispanic with 1600 SAT's who is also a prime football quarterback who has extensive EC's of working in the lab on a cure for cancer. Of course, I'm joking...but by a lot less than you might think.</p>
<p>MIT is the most humane. Regardless of where USNWR ranks them, they know they have a cachet no one else has. This gives them a little more flexibility in their admission decisions. They don't like people who run around winter, spring, summer, fall doing this and that, evidently to pad their resum</p>