Perfect scores: help/hurt you?

<p>Calm down rohin, I’m pretty sure he’s legit…</p>

<p>raneff: though it may seem like perfect scorers are always rejected, and lots of CC threads discuss the inclination to reject perfection, if you look through every one of them, they never state that perfect scorers are admitted below the average admit rate. What you end up finding is that people talk about headlines like “Harvard rejects 50% of perfect scorers!” or “Yale rejects 20% perfect scorers!”. But take note that 50% are getting in, or 80% or whatever percent…at least much higher than the 7-8% admit rate these days. Either way, the admit rate for perfect scorers is CONSIDERABLY higher. And thats partly due to the fact that perfect scorers tend to do well in other things as well. So your perfect score will HELP YOU, though it is the whole package that will probably be getting you into a top university.</p>