<p>I've been accepted to Harvard with 1770 SAT on SCEA (Don't ask me how?). Should I send to them my second 2000 SAT score, to improve their statistics, or it has nothing to do with that?</p>
<p>Hey, if you’re in, you’re in. Save your money.</p>
<p>This is actually an interesting question. If you don’t want to be on low end of scattergrams and their published statistics, send in the score. On the other hand, if Harvard wanted to show that they do, in fact, take subpar scores, doing so would not help their cause. Either way, it’s no big deal. Congrats though!</p>
<p>You’re an international applicant and they took your consideration of your SAT in that context. Sending the 2000 at this point would be stupid. Posting that you got in with a 1770 is needlessly hurtful for those 1000s of native english speakers who were rejected with +2200 SAT scores. Maybe never mention it again? Like for your entire life? </p>
<p>Congrats on getting admitted – I hope you do great in Harvard but I’m not kidding about revealing your SATs to anyone.</p>
<p>@T26E4 . He just asked a simple question. He got into Harvard because he deserved it. The "1000 of native english speakers who were rejected with 2200+ SAT scores " didn’t deserve it. You’re the one being hurtful.
Answer to the question; You don’t really need to send it, given that you’re already in .</p>
<p>@T26E4 What? Harvard took this candidate because they saw past the SAT’s (like the Int’l Olympiad honors,etc) and OP is supposed to be ashamed of their scores and hide them from the world the rest of their lives? Not to mention OP scored a 2000 the second try and with their native intelligence and further test prep could probably score much higher. I think if OP got in with a 1780 (as an international!), it speaks to their remarkable achievements in other areas and OP should not feel as though they stole a place away from some 2200+ US applicant. I am not going to say anything further lest I get myself in trouble. Congrats on getting in, good luck at school!</p>
<p>FWIW, I went to school with a Russian kid, Felix, who had low SAT scores. Among his many talents, he could play up to five of us in chess blindfolded and easily beat us all. I remember taking a very difficult math class with him and he broke the curve on one exam. He studied engineering and graduated near the top of the class. Did I ever think someone deserved a spot at our school more than him? No. Was he ever ashamed that he had low SAT’s. Again no. He was brilliant but English was his second or third language and it only took him a year or so to be completely fluent in it. I bet he would have scored closed to 1600 (back then no writing) after that year.</p>
<p>One of the pleasures of entering college, according to DS, is that nobody will care about his SATs again. They were fine scores, but enough already :)</p>
<p>We understand that employers might ask, but at least, for a time, that is off the table. </p>
<p>OP, congratulations. I would no more send in subsequent scores than I would send in a new essay :)</p>
<p>@Falcon1: Let me clarify: I fully support Harvard’s choice of the OP. He or She sounds amazing and I’m sure Harvard will feel a great boost by this person’s presence. On behalf of my rival alma mater, there’s a bit of jealousy that we didn’t allure the OP enough so he/she applied to us SCEA rather than Harvard! I fully support a school’s ability to look past SATs.</p>
<p>I’m speaking ONLY to the fact that hearing that H admits someone with such an SAT, which most applicants and potential applicants view as an extreme aberration, will needlessly have a freak out moment. If the OP can realize that fact, all the while not being a shamed one iota for his/her score, then it would serve the OP well. But like IxnayBob said, from this day forward, no one on the planet will have need to know the OP’s SAT .</p>
<p>@SameerHussain: deserve’s got nothing to do with it. The 1000s of rejected people feel that THEY deserve it over a 1770/2000 SAT scorer – and that’s the problem. Like I just said, Harvard wants this kid, Harvard got this kid. Ultimately it’s the rejectee’s problem – I get that. But it’s a problem nonetheless. I believe that in a civil society, we all ought to come to the table with as much concern for others’ personal inconsistencies as possible without compromising our own values. No need to come into a conversation with a “nyah, nyah” attitude. I would offer the same advice to a world class athlete whom is successfuly recruited by Harvard/Yale/Princeton but with a similar SAT score. </p>
<p>People should know that Harvard admissions is holistic and not entirely dependent on stats.</p>
can you tell me more about your GPA and activities ?? 
I think it’s important to keep in mind that “deserve” has little to do with college admissions at the top schools anymore. Thousands of deserving applicants are rejected every year—students whom the colleges themselves regret having to turn down but must because of space constraints. There’s a huge amount of luck involved at this point, so anyone who gets in should be grateful, and anyone who doesn’t shouldn’t assume it was because someone else deserved it more.
As for not mentioning those SAT scores, I find them interesting, and I’m guessing that other applicants and their parents would too. They show that scores aren’t everything—as the thousands of rejected applicants with perfect and near-perfect scores can attest.
You have already been accepted - why on earth would you even consider sending in updated scores? There’s an adage in business, “after you have closed the sale - stop talking”
Once he gets to school, no one will care about his SAT scores and kids that talk about them are seen as bragging. Who cares at that point, you are in Harvard, Yale, or where ever. If you get in Harvard with a 1500 and complete all the coursework and get a degree what will it say HARVARD just like the person that got the 2400.
Just like the kid that graduates last in the class gets the same diploma. The only person I worry about it the doctor that graduates last in his/her class :))