Notoriously Number-Oriented Schools?

Applying to College
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<p>^lolz northwestern is definitely NOT numbers oriented...</p>

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<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>

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<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>

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<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>

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<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</p>

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<p>Are there any colleges that value test scores over GPA and everything else? I would guess no, but still, I'm curious?</p>

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<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>

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<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>

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<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>