<p>SAT 1460
SAT II Chem 770
SAT II Math 2c 800
SAT II Writing 620</p>
<p>GPA 4.0 or A</p>
<p>He took a lot of APs, English, Government, Physics, Calculus, Chemistry
He plays viola
no sports
eagle scout
100 hours community service</p>
<p>he applied to Harvard, Columbia, Stony Brook, what are his chances at them?</p>
<p>Are those it for ECs? I don't know anything about Stony Brook, but as it is now Harvard/Columbia are going to be reaches.</p>
<p>Stony Broook: good chance</p>
<p>Harvard/Columbia: meh....</p>
<p>^^ i agree</p>
<p>O come on...SAT 1460..SAT II Math 2c 800..4.0 GPA, there's gotta be a chance, right?</p>
<p>lol 1460 isnt the best you can get...if uve read some other posts in here, there are people with 1500 and more and is STILL insecure...1460 isnt exactly a perfect score</p>
<p>low writing score, lack of ECs, mere 1400s SAT. gotta pump it up.</p>
<p>I think SAT I scores aren't so bad. Actually pretty good.</p>
<p>EC are lacking. Need to bump up SAT scores for Harvard, in the low 600's for Writing isn't the best, especially w/o much extra-curricular. </p>
<p>Racial/socio-economic background might help also, unless your friend is asian.</p>
<p>In the movie "Dumb and Dumber" Jim Carrey's character asks the woman do I have a chance, is it 1 in a hundred. She replies it is more like one in a million. He grins, "You're saying I have a chance?"</p>
<p>Is your friend a member of a unique section of our society, a movie star or child of a President or the donor of a building on campus? This might help improve their chance.</p>
<p>Ha...Dumb and Dumber....kick ass movie...</p>
<p>No sports, no interesting hook, HYPSM Below-average scores. ---> Very little chance. By the way, a 1460 is a good score, but it will not get you into HYPSM without a strong hook. I don't care how good your essays and recommendations are.</p>
<p><< it will not get you into HYPSM without a strong hook. I don't care how good your essays and recommendations are.>></p>
<p>careful there wahoo, admissions officers are crazy sometimes. i hear stories where kids with 1300something SATs apply to harvard as a joke and miraculously get in. (prolly has something to do with adding "diversity")</p>
<p>I think geographic location can provide a bolster. However, what I am trying to say is that people with low scores need something else. If a person scores 1300 on his or her SAT and discovers a gene that is linked with Alzheimer's, then that person stands a good chance at Harvard.</p>
<p>^^ that combo somehow seems unlikely. but yes, in general that type of score needs some sort of amazing accomplishment to make up for it, but there is so much luck involved with college admissions you can never be 100% sure. even safeties are only 99% certain, because you may have accidentally left off a 0 in ur 1600 (not possible, but its just an example).</p>
<p>stony is a safety for him</p>