<p>Does scoring a 2400 make an applicant a near shoe-in for Harvard? Especially if they're applying ED and the rest of their credentials are 'in range' for Harvard? (Assume strong essays, ECs, and references.) </p>
<p>Not an overrepresented demographic on campus, either (I think)...</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Go read the actual results thread. You can do everything right and still get rejected. </p>
<p>Few people, if any, are a shoe-in for Harvard. From the admission’s office website:</p>
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<p>I don’t think there’s even such a thing as a “Harvard shoe-in.”</p>
<p><em>There is no such thing as a shoe-in for Harvard.</em>
Specifically, I know two perfect SAT scorers (first-and-only-time takers) who were not admitted to Harvard ED or RD, and the rest of their stats were perfect or near perfect also. There was a time (rewind thirty/forty years) when perfect SAT applicants could choose their school. That was long ago.
But anyone who wants to go to such universities/schools with acceptance in the single digits should try.</p>
<p>Nope. Even if you have “match” stats, Harvard (and Yale, Princeton, etc.) is a reach for everyone.</p>
<p>Unless SAT 2400 is counting the number of thousands of dollars donated, then no.</p>
<p>It’s not the 2400 that improves a person’s chances. It’s that people who earn that score usually have a lot of other stuff going for them as well. Even so, I think Harvard rejects around 50% of applicants who have a 2400. Numbers can only do so much.</p>
<p>Nobody is a shoe in at Harvard except for recruited athletes. I know quite a few 2400/4.0 applicants who didn’t even make the waitlist.</p>
<p>Either through sports, or 4.0/2400 + curing cancer can one be a lock for Harvard.</p>