<p>I have to say, you don’t know much about college admissions, and what is worse is that you don’t know that you don’t know much about college admissions. While I will level with you with the graduate school thing and (mostly) on college rankings…though that doesn’t really have much to do with college admissions…your views on SAT scores are completely wrong. Even admissions officers at top schools have verified this, SAT scores are almost always the second most important part of your application, first comes the transcript. You may want to rephrase your statement into, “a top SAT score doesn’t guarantee you admission to a top school like a lot of people on CC think”, which is a statement I wholeheartedly, 100% agree with (after coming to that realization with myself as a case study). Just because you see kids with 2300+ SATs rejected from HYPS doesn’t mean SATs matter very little. Would you say that because you see even more kids with a 4.0 UW rejected from all Ivies, that the transcript matters even less? Hell no. Anyone who would conclude that would be laughed off CC. Thinking test scores matter very little is plainly naive.</p>