IMPORTANT: this is the " I scored at least a 2280SAT/33ACT and still rejected club

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<p>2220 rejected by UChicago</p>

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<p>sorry, but i think theres a threshold where 2200+ sat and 33+ act bunches everyone in the same pool</p>

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<p>Nope, this is a common misconception. Check out this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/865226-addressing-few-concerns.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/865226-addressing-few-concerns.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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To further bury the ludicrousness of this notion:
[Brown</a> Admission: Facts & Figures](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University)
30.6% acceptance rate for 36 ACTers, 14.0% acceptance rate for 33-35 ACTers. That’s more than double the chances for a 36 ACTer compared to a 33-35 ACTer. Princeton’s website has similar numbers for SAT-takers that suggest a similar trend.</p>

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<p>2380, waitlisted at Caltech. (Hang tight, more to come. :P)</p>

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<p>2300, waitlisted at Northwestern, Amherst, and Middlebury. This list will probably double in size when the Ivy decisions come out.</p>

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<p>UCLA and UCB :frowning:
However, in their defense my GPA did drop junior year.</p>

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<p>UCLA is harder than berkely sometimes. it takes a 4.0 junior to get in.</p>

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<p>2380 (1600/1600) rejected from Barnard and McGill. hmph. rejection hurts.</p>

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eh, still can’t bring myself to believe that. they observe a correlation between test score and acceptance. the perfect test score doesn’t necessarily cause the college to admit you although it probably does have a sizable impact I’m guessing. test score is only another part of the application. but I see those perfect scorers to mostly go hand in hand with greater academic and extracurricular achievement and fitting the more attractive admissions profile. perfect test scores … somewhat “self select” the naturally more impressive applications</p>

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<p>^ Really? And that supposed self-selection (something without any empirical evidence and dubious logical evidence at best) accounts for over double the rate? Not to mention that most of the hooked applicants getting in are not perfect-scorers and are inflating the acceptance rates of the lower score tiers (press an adcom enough and they will tell you this).</p>

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<p>2390/36/800/800/800/800/800/790 and rejected for Stanford and waitlisted at Duke.</p>

<p>Got into Dartmouth/Penn/Cal Tech/MIT/WashU/Northwestern/UCLA/Berkeley/Vanderbilt/ Boston University/Carnegie Mellon/UChicago/a lot of other schools.</p>

<p>So for future generations, Stanford/Duke care less about scores than other colleges.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I tried to take too many hard classes and my grades fell on the wrong side of the border. However, I learned so much that year that I don’t regret it.</p>

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<p>:/ this thread is depressing… If all these people with top scores are getting rejected, I (without top scores) will get in nowhere… but anyway… I know someone who had a 2370 SAT and an 800 lit subject test and 770 math 2 subject test and got wait-listed for Reed. He didn’t have good grades though…</p>

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<p>Posted this elsewhere, but I have a 2400 SAT and was rejected at Amherst and Swarthmore, waitlisted at UVA, CMC, and Pomona. Five more rejections expected tomorrow.</p>

<p>yay!</p>

<p>My grades and transcript are solid – ~4.0, toughest curriculum in a competitive public hs</p>

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<p>^No offense, but you must be significantly flawed in some other way (criminal? Awful recs?) because those results make no sense.</p>

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<p>Anonymous93, you applied to “a lot more” than 14 schools? Are you crazy?</p>

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<p>^I applied to twelve. Or thirteen, I can’t remember anymore. I guess it’s better to be accepted to too many schools than not being accepted to any…</p>

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<p>^Especially with how schools are randomly waitlisting these days…</p>

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<p>Like many posters said, college admissions is a crapshoot.</p>