<p>I enjoy reading CollegeConfidential. Its given me many perspectives about college, from honest people but has also shown me a side of people that perturbs me. I hear many students who receive a 3.8 and receive 2200+ SATs and complain about them! I'm a Junior in HS and haven't been entirely subjected to the college bloodbath, but it is disturbing to hear that students feel depressed over, what are spectacular grades and SAT scores. If at this point, you are feeling depressed over these great scores, hopefully nothing bad or unfortunate ever happens to you because it will come as a shock. Yes, I can become depressed and angry at times over bad grades, but it shouldn't consume your life. I'm not really sure what I'm saying at this point, but don't feel bad about your scores, you worked as hard as you could (if you did) and if you continue to work this hard, you'll succeed in life, and all of that Hallmark stuff. Feel proud that you were able to stand above the crowd and that you have academic skills that most are jealous and envious of. But relax for gods sake.</p>
<p>or the threads that are like</p>
<p>“OMG PLZ HELP ME, IM IN SUCH A DIFFICULT POSITION RIGHT NOW”</p>
<p>and then go on to say “I GOT INTO ALL THE TOP 20 SCHOOLS. MY LIFE SUX RITE NOW, SOME ONE HELP ME PICK A SK00L 2 GO 2”</p>
<p>People set high standards for themselves, and rightly so. Schools in the Top 20 reject at least 3 of every 4 applicants who apply with 2200s.</p>
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<p>Nuff said.</p>
<p>i go to school with some crazy people. there’s one girl who got a 2400 with precisely zero studying. cold. she’s just something else.
there’s another who is completely neurotic and crazy, got a 2350, and told the girl w.the 2400 “OMG I WOULD KILL FOR YOUR SCORE!”</p>
<p>yes, THANK YOU op :)</p>
<p>“Schools in the Top 20 reject at least 3 of every 4 applicants who apply with 2200s.”
kids with a 2200 don’t get rejected because they only got a 2200. they get rejected for their lack of ECs or because there were more qualified/appealing applicants who also have around a 2200. it has nothing to do with the score itself.</p>
<p>godd, the worst kind r the more-than-qualified kids with greats scores & amazing ECs & they’re completely freaking out. “OMG, CAN I GET IN ANYWHERE?!?!” it’s freaking luck at that point, considering you’re obviously qualified, ******. ughhh :/</p>
<p>it’s true that getting into an ivy/top school requires MORE than the 2200 itself, but it is wrong to complain of the score 2200. however, striving for a higher score the second time is okay, as long as your not rubbing into other people’s faces that you are “disappointed” with ur 2200</p>
<p>I agree that a 2200 does not warrant pity or disappointment.</p>
<p>The higher the standards you set the better, so there is nothing wrong with being disappointed with a 2200 SAT or a 98 in a class. But when you start obsessing over it is when the problem starts.</p>
<p>^, maybe it is not bad but stop getting angry with people who want better scores. The delta between 2350 and 2400 is immaterial, but please don’t tell me people at harvard look at 2400 the same as 2200. Simple, 2200<2400.</p>
<p>I have a 1500/2200, and a 3.8 uweighted(10 APs), and I was rejected from Vanderbilt, Duke, Cornell, Rice, Northwestern, and waitlisted at WashU, Emory, and Boston College…I was only accepted at my local state school, Sat scores aren’t everything, you need to make yourself stand out…</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>shouldn’t that be 1500/2400?</p>
<p>that is a 500 average…which is state school. (if not CC)</p>
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<p>no, he means 1500/1600 (math plus CR)
and 2200/2400 overall (math plus cr plus writing)</p>
<p>that’s the format that basically everyone uses because the writing score is considered by some schools to be not as important as math or cr.</p>
<p>I remember seeing a thread a while back claiming that a score in the 2250-2290 range is “low”. </p>
<p>I believe that once you get into the college’s accepted range, scores stop being important. They no longer determine the fate of the application.</p>
<p>I got into virtually every college I wanted to (into 4 ivies, rejected by Stanford) with a 2250. Supposedly Asians need 100-200 points higher than normal, but I wonder how true that is (I’m Chinese).</p>
<p>“I believe that once you get into the college’s accepted range, scores stop being important. They no longer determine the fate of the application.”
exactly. that is why it is somewhat pointless to try to improve your scores by a slight margin. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>^^^^^I have a 750 on Critical Reading, a 750 on Math, and a 700 on writing. so my reading +math score is a 1500/1600 and my total score is a 2200/2400</p>
<p>MSteve. I know what you’re saying. haha. reading college confidential makes me laugh at the utter insecurity of people who are unhappy with great scores. in fact, 99% of the country would die for their scores of 2200.</p>
<p>I think the main problem is the fact that getting x on the SAT isn’t enough. Some people believe getting 100 points on the SAT will make up for some other part of their application. Likewise just because you are passionate and are Intel ISEF finalist and Intel STS finalist does not mean you will get into an Ivy/SM. </p>
<p>Its the whole package and people often seem to forget that. I think the people on CC are trying to make themselves feel better when people say their score is fine. I know as a junior I was very scared that my SAT score was not good or I wasn’t doing enough, because when you see everyone on CC you see the top of the nation. You see the brightest and most motivated and thus its simply a skewed perspective. Overall a 2200 on CC I would say is probably around the average and thus people want to always be above average and then view an “average” score as bad. </p>
<p>I was simply trying to piece together what others go through when they post. I am not saying that its right, but simply playing devil’s advocate.</p>
<p>Different strokes for different folks. I don’t see why you guys should be bothered so much. Yes SOME kids on CC are self-absorbed @sses who posted their amazing stats and said “This is terrible. I’m heartbroken” just to subtly brag and beg for approbation from others on how good they are. But there ARE kids with 2100-2200 SAT who aim for the top schools/Ivies and are genuinely worried if their stats are good enough. None of us does know if a 2200 is good enough for, say, Yale so it’s not wrong to want to hear opinions or want to get higher scores. 1% of the nation means thousands of kids (or tens of thousands of kids) - way more than the Ivies/top schools can take in.</p>
<p>Some kids did get into a handful of top schools and need to make a decision. What’s wrong with posting a thread to ask what others think? Is it any different from all the threads where those “choices” are 2nd-tier, 3rd-tier colleges? Why is it all good when kids have to decide among “okay” colleges but if they have an all dream-school lineup, it’s arrogant and annoying? They still have to make a choice don’t they?</p>
<p>Bottom line is, if you don’t like those threads, just don’t read, or read the first line and close the window and forget everything. I don’t know if the “insecured” people are you, or them.</p>
<p>Once you reach a threshold, your SAT score is not relevant anymore. GPA + rigor are much more important…it’s better to have mediocre SATs and stellar grades than the other way around. ECs are obviously important after that.</p>
<p>I believe there is a difference between 2100, 2200, and 2300 when it comes down to comparing a couple of similar applicants. What’s this magical “threshold” that everyone’s talking about? btw I haven’t seen a single Ivy-successful applicant - the kind that got into a couple of Ivies - this season with SAT <2300 (URMs aside).</p>