<p>^wait, is that really true??? i thought you had to take SAT IIs regardless</p>
<p>Because I need to prep for subject tests…so if I got a good SAT score, but wrote the ACT too, do I need to write the SAT subject tests?</p>
<p>and ProudToBeCdn…are you in gr.11? i’ve never seen your posts on here before…but welcome!</p>
<p>i think the ACT thing depends on the school you’re applying to…
so maybe check collegeboard?</p>
<p>and yea, i’m in gr. 11… i’ve also just been “observing” the collegeconfidential forums for A VERY LONG TIME!!</p>
<p>ahhh, ic. Yea, observing’s no fun lol…posting is more fun. </p>
<p>Did you write the SAT in Canada or in the US? I’m hoping I did well in W, so that I have the opportunity to take it once more and if I do well in M and CR, I can just get superscored and get it all done with</p>
<p>“^wait, is that really true??? i thought you had to take SAT IIs regardless”</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure for most schools, if you take the ACT, you’re fine. You don’t have to take any SAT Is or IIs</p>
<p>idk, don’t Ivys and other schools require 2 subject tests?</p>
<p>and how do you think the curve will be for this test?</p>
<p>I wrote mine in Toronto :).</p>
<p>i hope the curve will be generous but… according to these crazy ppl here on CC, the curve is supposed to be pretty harsh since the test was supposedly “easy”.</p>
<p>i wrote mine in Essex…southern ontario…yea, i thought M was harder-ish, CR was medium, and W was easier…im hoping for a very generous curve though</p>
<p>glad u came through vigs</p>
<p>u better hope hard for the generous math curve…</p>
<p>my math curve was like 1 wrong=770</p>
<p>^i didn;t really come through lol. At best, I got low 2200s. but it was a good initial experience. I think i’ll be able to get to 2300+ superscore after June + Oct. SAT though…i gotta be ableto get 800M and 800W or 780+ W on at least one of those, and i wanna get 730 or so CR on one of them…we’ll see</p>
<p>^ 2200 on your first time (that’s my score superscored… but then again, I’m no genius) is very good… CC is kind of brainwashing you. Aim to always get better but realize what you possibly have accomplished with a 2200 is still better than 98% or so of the student population.</p>
<p>dont forget, only top 99% of students go to ivy league…</p>
<p>hey kelloggs, was your 2310 superscored or just one sitting?</p>
<p>Yes, only about 1 % of the population do get acceptance to Ivy Leagues but your post states that they are the TOP 1 %. They are usually the top 10 % and almost always the top 5%… not necessarily top 1 %.</p>
<p>@vigs
yess</p>
<p>@alam
top 5%-10% is for school grades. even then, ur chances r probably shaky if ur not in top 3% since we are applying from canada. remember that most ivies take around 10-30 canadians a year. how many canadians do u think apply to ivies each year? prob thousands. so, even if u have a top 5%, there r prob hundreds with top 1%. then u’ll be at a disadvantage IN TERMS OF SCHOOL GRADE.</p>
<p>as for sat…75th percentile for HYPSM is around 2350. for cornell, penn, columbia, 75th percentile is around 2300. Again, its all relative to the canadian applicant pool, which i expect to be much harder. I have 5 friends who had 2400…</p>
<p>all in all, the stats on the websites may be comforting to some degree. but consider that those stats include legacy kids, recruits, ppl who pay their way in…etc. these ppl take up around 10-20% of the admitted class.</p>
<p>just wanted to say holy crap congrats to everyone here getting over 2200! </p>
<p>i agree with alam… CC is brainwashing you lol, remember, you guys might be telling the truth about yours scores, but this is an online forum… not everyone is telling the truth </p>
<p>and, kelloggs, being a legacy doesnt help you THAT much at an ivy, unless said legacy is a very wealthy or powerful individual… i met a few admits who were legacies, and their stats were just as competitive as the non-legacies… the only huge advantage (at yale, anyways) is that children of legacies can choose to be affiliated with their parents/grandparents RC</p>
<p>a note for all canadians! the american schools look at Canadian SAT takers much less harshly than american… they know that we are not as prepped as americans, so if we are achieving similar scores with good percentile averages and great ECs then you are a VERY competitive applicant - remember, they are not looking to admit test scores, they want real people who happened to also be intelligent, thats how you hear the stories of kids with 2400 getting rejected… because they were seen as test mongers who had nothing better to do with their lives than study</p>
<p>make no mistake, studying is necessary, but the SAT is just one of the things that a school looks for – it is NOT by any means a guarantee of acceptance or rejection</p>
<p>and, for the ACT… i believe dont quote me, but if you take the ACT plus writing it takes the place of SAT II tests</p>
<p>also @kelloggs</p>
<p>EACH ivy takes 10-30 canadians… not 10-30 for the whole league. this year, 30 canadians were admitted to yale, and i believe 25 to harvard… not sure on the stats of the other ivies</p>
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<p>Much too low. I can count that many just at the private schools in our region (that post their stats on line). </p>
<p>I should also add its rather confusing what is meant by “Canadian” since many I know that apply to US schools are actually dual citizens, some are legacy, and so forth. So they are Americans who went to Canadian schools. </p>
<p>This also says nothing about there being some kind of “Canadian quota”. There is not. The numbers they get each year reflect the reality of the situation of how many apply that meet their criteria.</p>
<p>Viggy quit complaining! 2300 is seriously awesome…especially on your first try.</p>
<p>I failed…- - I wouldn’t be surprised if it came out to be like 1900 or 2000 or something…I didn’t even finish the BB…- -</p>
<p>"Much too low. I can count that many just at the private schools in our region (that post their stats on line). "</p>
<p>I agree, I have a friend who goes to a private all-girls schools, and her schools sends like a bunch of kids off to ivy each year.
Even if it’s only one girl/Ivy, that would still mean that her schools is taking up like 5% of the total # of acceptances…that’s highly unlikely, IMO.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>hinder, i go to an all-girls school too! and my school sends a bunch to ivies every year, about 5%.</p>
<p>this year we have 1 Yale, 1 Harvard, 2 Brown, 1 Columbia, Bunch(as in 4-5) of NYUs, Duke, Northwestern etc.</p>
<p>^wow, are you serious?! That’s crazy! </p>
<p>@hinderpanda…i am not gonna get 2300 on this SAT lol. I was saying that at BEST I got 2220 or something like that</p>
<p>and can somebody clarify the whole ACT = no subject tests please? I am really confused about this…I thought SAT IIs were mandatory.</p>
<p>Also, when you say EACH IVY takes 10-30 acceptances, wouldn’t a lot of these acceptances include cross-applicants (for example, kelloggs this year got into multiple Ivys…and are those just acceptance or the amount that end up going to those Ivy? because that chances EVERYTHING. just acceptances is far diff. than attendees…if those number are for attendees, then that means PLENTY of canadians get into IVys + top schools).</p>
<p>Also, what do you think about the general Canadian applicant pool? How many thousand apply? What would you say the breakdown is…like %(<2100), % (2100-2200), % (2200-2250), % (2250+), and % (2300+)"? </p>
<p>Basically, what kind of people are we competing against? I’m sure some of these applicants are very sub par and just applied for the heck of it.</p>
<p>And what kind of 'stat’s would make one of us have a great/good shot to get into at least 1 Ivy/top 20?</p>
<p>EDIT: our school had 1 Yale…that’s it. first time in 5 years someone got into an Ivy. Girl with 99.5% cumulative avg. got rejected a couple years back…</p>