<p>^lolz northwestern is definitely NOT numbers oriented…</p>
<p>^^ I don’t think MIT can count as numbers-oriented (in this context), considering they view all 700+ SAT scores as equal to 800. =)</p>
<p>Caltech for sure. If you are into engineering, look at Harvey Mudd too. Dartmouth is very numbers obsessed. They like the 2300+, but even more than that they like their val/sals. I think half of dmouth is a val or a sal.</p>
<p>Out of the Ivies, I have heard that UPenn, Dartmouth, and Columbia are the more number-based ones, although they are still very holistic. I have also heard that Georgetown is very number-based.</p>
<p>UPenn.</p>
<p>“98.9 percent of the students admitted for Fall 2008 came from the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class…”</p>
<p>[Penn:</a> Facts and Figures](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php]Penn:”>http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php)</p>
<p>Are there any colleges that value test scores over GPA and everything else? I would guess no, but still, I’m curious?</p>
<p>Two students at my high school got accepted to Northwestern and UPenn respectively, and both had only average stats, but they were both legacy children, so I wouldn’t say that either school is solely number-oriented.</p>
<p>i’m not sure if this is what you mean, but I don’t even think I had to write anything for my stony brook application. MAYBE a “why stony brook” paragraph but that was it. purely numbers, i feel like that paragraph was just a formality haha.</p>
<p>So, yeah I’m getting the expected reaction about Yale because I only heard about Yale recently so I just wanted to see what you guys thought.</p>
<p>I heard from both an undergraduate admissions officer and the business school’s admissions officer (both people I know through a person) that Yale tends to be more uptight about numbers, primarily concerning one’s GPA and SATs. That is not to say, of course, that this is always the case…</p>
<p>I’m just saying the admissions officers said that generally high, high numbers are crucial to admission–they both think that Harvard tends to be much more lenient than Yale in terms of grades. </p>
<p>Just a thought.</p>