< (Less than) 2300 club Who Still Got Into Really Selective Colleges

<p>2120, Penn</p>

<p>Oh and I also know someone with a 610 on math that got into... was it... MIT? Again, that was obviously aff. action. Their CR was like 680 or something around that.</p>

<p>2140, Penn</p>

<p>Friends: 2000, Harvard. 1870, NYU. 1990, Cornell.</p>

<p>URM? Legacy? Athlete?</p>

<p>interesting friends i must say</p>

<p>my bro got in MIT with a 1450 (couple years ago), dunno if that counts</p>

<p>A 1590/2400 who got inot John's Hopkins. An 870/1600 Penn State admit. Both are URMs. It is in this article:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06046/655199-298.stm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06046/655199-298.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>that is pretty crazy......URMs....</p>

<p>2110-->Cornell..and no URM, legacy, or athlete bull*****!!</p>

<p>I was just talking to someone in my class who got into Boston College EA. He has a 1380/1600 (don't know what he got out of 2400). However, he is a URM and an athlete, so I guess he doesn't count. Not a bad combo to have. I still think he would have gotten in without those 2 things going for him since his SAT is right in BC's range and his GPA is pretty good.</p>

<p>2090--got into Stanford...now attending UMCP on a full scholarship.</p>

<p>some guy at my school got into UPenn EA this year with SATs in the region of 1600 ( he was stupidly out clubbing till 4 am the night before he took them...!) but got in because his mother is very good friends with someone in admissions (pretty high up i presume) and his father is an influential figure in Columbia... Its annoyed everyone else at my school becuase he is really not at all special (not great GCSEs or A level predictions), but just knew he was going to get in.</p>

<p>My brother - 2100 Penn</p>

<p>Not sure why this is so surprising ^
College Board lists the bottom of the mid 50% for UPenn as 1340. That means there are plenty of students who were even below that. Same goes for many of the other schools.</p>

<p>In other words, 50% of the admitted class had a 1340 or lower?</p>

<p>25%, not 50%</p>

<p>But that's out of 1600</p>

<p>25% got below a 1340 out of 1600 - I figure the 2100 that got into Penn scored at least a 1400 on the math/reading sections - if you assume 700 on each section - most likely the math/reading are higher - I admit I am making assumptions.<br>
A lot of the schools are still using the 1600 scale and ignoring the writing section - inlcuding UPenn unfortunately for my d who scored her highest on writing.<br>
My point is that it's definitely not surprising that kids get into top schools with a 2300 posted in the title and even not surprising with much lower scores!</p>

<p>1650---> Cornell</p>

<p>really??? woah</p>