<p>Can't a person just lie about their SAT scores in that case? If someone has a 1900 or something in that range and his friends at Cornell asked him what he got, he could just increase his score. He knows majority of people have 2000+ so he lies...makes sense, no?</p>
<p>I really have no reason for my opinion but I would hope that the college would not hold it against you. They must know that many bright talented students are applying to many schools. </p>
<p>Obviously those applying in the RD round have not made an absolute decision about their favorite choice school. </p>
<p>I do think it is worth acknowledging your error to the school.....and then don't sweat it.</p>
<p>I am a mother of two children -- one in college, one on her way --- I don't understand why a college would only be interested in students who absolutely wanted to go to a specific school vs. a student who had a passion for a subject or path in life. Hope it works out for you.</p>
<p>Not a good first impression.</p>
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<p>Brown man1987 I have less than 1900 and attend CAS, what is that supposed to mean? And I believe they don't look at writing. If so, then you should be talking about the 1600 scale. See what kinds of results you get then. For me, I've seen people with superior writing but mediocre CR or M get denied. Yet their overall scores were up there because the Writing score had kept it high up. There is more to than a number. With the new Collegeboard policy of allowing students to choose which scores to send in, it's going to be impossible for them to even know you through your numbers. So maybe one day, colleges won't use SAT's anymore and may require a whole new test.</p>
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<p>I had the amazing good luck to speak with Jason Locke a couple summers ago (google "Jason Locke, Cornell"), and he told me and some other people about a candidate who had written this long laudatory essay about why she loved the University and blah blah blah....at the end of it she mentioned "the university" by it's actual name: New York University.</p>
<p>She didn't get in.</p>
<p>HE DID SAY THOUGH: She had just written a terrible ' praise the college essay ', and he MADE VERY CLEAR: that the admissions department understood human error.</p>
<p>He essentially said: Errors are errors...don't make them seem like more than they are.</p>
<p>None of us can answer how much of an error you've committed - we aren't reading the apps.</p>
<p>I wish you the best of luck!</p>
<p>my friend's essay for the cornell application was "why i want to go to johns hopkins" and he wrote about johns hopkins but got in cornell :)</p>
<p>^^Wow, that's insane.</p>
<p>But also kickass.</p>
<p>Why do you have to resort to knocking the contract schools, man? I'm in one - it's awesome.</p>