Is My SAT Score High Enough For Ivy League?

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<p>Please assume the rest of my application is Ivy League worthy and that I'm unhooked. When I mean high enough SATs I mean that the admissions officers will check the box and move onto the rest of my application. They won't be concerned it's too low.</p>

<p>I got a 2180 composite. 800 CR, 700 W, 680 M. I'm going to retake and I'm sure I can get a 2230+ (super score) by bumping up writing to 750. Math is not going anywhere lol.</p>

<p>Is that okay, assuming the rest of my application is good, for the Ivy League (Dartmouth Econ is my #1)?</p>

<p>Will the 680 math score look too bad even if I get 2230 composite?</p>

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<p>Yes. If you aren’t good at math, then how will you do economics? Not to be harsh, but that will run through their minds. It’s highly mathematical and at higher levels you will need to apply calculus and other college-level mathematics to financial concepts. </p>

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<p>Also, keep in mind that most colleges don’t even consider your writing score - they look at just CR and math out of 1600.</p>

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<p>FWIW, see C9 Data in Dartmouth’s Common Data Set: <a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds_2013-2014_updated.pdf”>This Page Has Moved;

<p>Dartmouth 25th percentile SAT scores are triple-680’s. That means that 75% of accepted students had a least one of those scores but not necessarily all of them. I do agree with foolish. From your SAT scores, it would appear that you would have more success with a major that isn’t math related. </p>