<p>The Official Stanford admissions report which was sent to my school lists the accept/reject stats for differing SAT scores</p>
<p>AT the 1600 SAT LEVEL, Stanford rejected 60% of those with that score.</p>
<p>at the non 1600 level Stanford rejects 90+% of applicants</p>
<p>your point?</p>
<p>Please people. I just read the first page of replies. It sucks. Someone said he retook the SAT's because all he cared about was grades..etc.etc... Listen, it's bottom of the 9th, bases loaded..etc..you're up to bat, and you strike out. For the rest of your life you wish you could go back to that spot. You were so damn close! But you can't, it's in the past. However, the SAT's are different. This guy got so close. What the heck, why not just go for it again and try for a 1600? Think if he just KEPT the 1590, what would he think for the rest of his life huh? What if?</p>
<p>i was just giving the flipside to DiamondT's argument...while the majority of 1600's are rejected, the rate of acceptance is higher than the general acceptance rate, almost four times greater...i agree with DiamondT's arguments about passion but saying 1600's aren't that great because only 40% get in isn't really an accurate statement</p>
<p>The 1600 at my school didn't get accepted to his dream school: MIT.</p>
<p>He ended up going to RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology)</p>
<p>Lesson? SATs aren't everything.</p>
<p>the valedictorian at your school got an 2280 on the sats and has a 4.3 gpa....he also got rejected from MIT</p>
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<p>very true</p>
<p>But the way I see it, my school is enormous. Maybe 2 or 3 kids get a 1600. The way I see a kid with a 1600 is this. He has straight A's, great kid, great everything correct? What else could they be possibly looking for? I don't see how these people can rip on a kid that got a 1600. You just don't "get" a 1600. You have to be pretty intelligent.</p>
<p>"They" created the SAT's to show colleges what kids were academically advanced and outstanding. Yes I believe that SATs aren't everything, however, if a kid gets a 1600, he must be doing something right.</p>
<p>evil_asian, Rickoids seem to have had a 100% early acceptance rate at all other colleges (ie Stanford) except Harvard. In any case though, my point, like many others on this thread have stated, is that he could not have been rejected for the mere reason that he retook the SAT.</p>
<p>you can preety much get the idea that the student was eager to excell in academics, which is nothing bad. but as you can see, it's just 10 points. i totally agree with what Stanford said (which is also based on the paper). the guy must have read a book or done something else or pursue his/her passion. the hunger for a perfect score may have given Stanford Adcoms a rather bad impression, concluding that this person was only too academically fixed.</p>
<p>as in young children, they start with a tricycle.as you get older, you try the bicycle. but are you gonna live only by riding the tricycle, never trying the bicycle?</p>
<p>you also can't live eating only cereal or only grapes. you need to try also food high in protein and fruits and vegetables and lots of other types of foods that will make you an overall healthy person. </p>
<p>it's the same with grades. you can't only live with grades and after graduating, as someone in this thread said, you will not continue living only taking exams and writing essays. You gotta be a "human", not a SAT and grades robot. </p>
<p>life isn't about ONLY grades. it's about pursuing what you like and live in a balanced way.</p>
<p>If he was seriously rejected on that one basis alone (which I doubt), then those adcoms are out of their mind. IMO, it shows effort/determination on his part that he was willing to go through taking it again for the perfect score.</p>
<p>Actually, I'm w/you lilMick.<br>
I kind of like the idea of a few scientists being on the perfectionist side... oh well!</p>
<p>I bet he got into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale though...</p>
<p>Maybe you can only accommodate 300 perfect scorers, once you're full-up, you reject... You can use only so many quarterbacks, history majors, fencers, pianists, pointguards, drama queens etc.</p>
<p>Please don't make the mistake of thinking that if you get a 1600 (now 2400) you can go wherever you want. I know of several kids w/ "perfect" scores who were also active in ASB, played Varsity sports, held office in several clubs, volunteered, worked part-time, etc. who were rejected from various top tier schools... They were ALL perfectly wonderful kids!</p>
<p>it doesn't talk about EC's but i don't think they were spectacular (meaning No possible deep passions) and since then, maybe Stanford adcoms believed this student thought maybe he/she could raise his/her admission chances by raising his/her score by 10 pts</p>
<p>i think this part kills me...the fact that I don't know too much about who colleges decide to let in..why they don't..etc....However...I don't see if this guy excelled in everything..especially the SATs, that he did not get accepted...You can not say that they already had 300 perfect scorers...therefore meaning that's the "limit"...shouldn't this guy have more prestige over a guy that hasn't excelled as high...no ifs ands or buts. </p>
<p>Plus ~~I'm sure there's more than 300 kids in the school lol</p>
<p>And back to Kevster...I don't think that this kid went back to get the additional 10 points just because he wanted to show Stanford he's great, smart, whatever..etc..etc.... The SAT's are not that long driven and incredibly persevering....they take 4 hours....if someone only got a 1590...missing the perfect 1600 by 10 points...I'm sure they would go back just for the heck of it and see if they could get a 1600</p>
<p>Plus... who wants to tell their kids that they missed getting perfect on their SATs by a mere 10 points</p>
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<p>Uh... nobody cares about SATs after high school. Anybody who "forever regretted not retaking for those 10 points" would have serious problems. Honestly. What's he gonna do? Brag to his grandkids about it or something? I think you should come back to CC in a year or two...</p>