<p>A simple question, what is the lowest SAT and ACT score that has been ACCEPTED into an IVY... 1600 or 1700</p>
<p>Hahaha okay I will stop, but I will say one thing you do not know who I am, and I bet that you could not talk with your rude manner to my face. So please, STOP acting like your so tough online when you are probably just are college conscious as I am. Calling people who you don’t know pathetic, is what is really pathetic my friend. I cant wait to find out my college admissions responses and post them on this thread for you to see 
I don’t know you either but your type of personality is what my interviewer who loved me regardless of my SAT score said that IVY colleges don’t want… Stats arent everything my friend remember that.</p>
<p>Oh I am an athlete btw… state champion in 6A tennis ;)</p>
<p>Oh my god, stop trying to make yourself seem really awesome by trying to make wallrus75 look bad. You have no chance at Ivy schools if your SAT is that low.</p>
<p>I recruit at my alma mater school district, a large urban school district. African American athletes w/your stats aren’t in the conversation when I speak w/my admissions office. The fact is that w/o ACT at least in the 30 range, you won’t be considered. I’m sorry but there are just many more qualified athletes who will push you out.</p>
<p>While “stats aren’t everything” your competition has all you have PLUS better stats. That leaves you out, in terms of the very top schools. Certainly there will be many schools who will fall over themselves trying to recruit you doubtlessly. But the most selective schools have an applicant pool that is simply shocking in its metrics.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies… Ill be sure to grab that luck with both hands and posts directly in this forum when I succeed I love it when people tell me “its impossible” because I love there reactions when I show them up! Thanks for the inspiration everyone 
Next time I post it will be about my acceptance letter.</p>
<p>Hah, good luck with that. You have to realize that anyone who gets accepted to an Ivy with a 1700 or so is an extreme special case: grew up homeless, from an impoverished country with awful education; did much better on the ACT than the SAT (like 31+), etc. We are justified in being incredulous.</p>
<p>Reaches are okay IF you have adequate safeties. Make sure you do.</p>
<p>Well, I guess it’s good to be confidendent, but then there’s the whole “reality” thing…</p>
<p>There are 49 other state champions including runner ups in other states who could be better and have better stats than you (academic and in tennis). As T26E4 stated, most such colleges will have baseline test scores and grades for recruited athletes and you simply won’t cut it with those scores.</p>
<p>seriously? why are you acting so cocky? i have a 35 act and 2300+ sat and im worried about getting into the top schools… im also a varsity athlete (not state level however, good job on that)</p>
<p>but really, dont just assume that because you have good ec’s, that your standardized testing scores wont matter. your gpa doesnt even matter at this point because your sat is so low that colleges will assume your school is an “a for effort” place. for a 3.99 gpa, you need to back that up with 2200+ sats to show that you are actually learning something in school</p>
<p>sat’s and act’s are important. they’re the easiest way to normalize grades for colleges and compare students across the country. so please, ease off on the cockiness.</p>
<p>The bottom line is even if this student is rejected, he’s going to post that he was accepted in an attempt to “show you up”. </p>
<p>That said, we’ll likely know to call the BS flag.</p>
<p>Don’t ask for an opinion if you’re going to respond negatively when you don’t receive the response you wanted. The bottom line is, you have to approach college admissions with a sense of pragmatism. Okay, so you applied to an Ivy with a 1660 SAT/23 ACT. First off you are not even close to the 25th percentile for either test. Did you expect us to say “Don’t worry! You’ll totally get in!”? As others have said, students much greater than you have managed to maintain a 3.98 GPA, awesome EC’s and an even better test score. We’re not saying you’re stupid. But the SAT/ACT cannot just be cast aside as “irrelevant.” It is a very important and prophetic portion of the application which measures your ability to grasp concepts, notice trends, and judge aptitude. Great EC’s cannot outweigh the score unless you cured cancer, toppled a tyrant, or built an orphanage. All that shows is that you were spending time at a dumb club meeting rather than practicing for standardized testing. </p>
<p>We want to help you. Lashing out at people trying to instill within you a sense of realism is immature. You sound like an American Idol audition who can’t sing, thinks he can, auditions, learns that he sucks and then angrily flips off Simon and the camera. You’re the audition who took dance classes and focused on looking hot rather than actually practicing singing.</p>
<p>ifunaya: I don’t know why you’d just want to be rude to people trying to help you ameliorate possible future letdown. It’s our opinion/guesses/advice. If you don’t like what we say, ignore us. You instead desire to facepalm us. Shrug.</p>
<p>I attended a majority African American HS, went on to attend an HYP and have recruited at the same HS for over 20 years. When I say a 23ACT is not in the conversation for the nation’s most selective colleges, I’m not just blowing hot air.</p>
<p>Please don’t think urm status will help you.
It won’t.</p>
<p>If you want to go to one of those schools, do really well wherever you end up and then transfer. Realistically, though, you don’t even have a 1% chance at them now.</p>
<p>Well for what its worth, since the likelihood of it repeating is very unlikely, I saw a video with a girl who got in to Stanford with a sub 1800 SAT score. From what she said it seemed as if the scores were pretty lower than 1800 too. Despite her entering SAT score she claims to have been on the honor role most quarters and is graduating with honors and doing her masters while doing her undergrad studies. All in four years. She had the advantage of being an URM for admission though.</p>
<p>Minimum for Ivies (URM + Recruited Athlete etc) is probably around
28-29 ACT
1880-1930 SAT</p>
<p>@nocknock
The OP is also a URM.</p>
<p>More like 30+/2000+ for URMs.</p>
<p>Well guess that’s a plus for him/her. Who knows, admission is a toss up for any applicant anyway, decisions might work out in OP’s favor. </p>
<p>@alexisss barrk1233 was stating the approximate minimum. His minimum range is more likely, and low scores are not restricted to URMs.</p>