<p>I’ve wondered about this myself. I did not get the impression that employers traditionally recruiting from a short list of elite schools and a variety of majors were looking for a way to include students with high SAT scores from other types of schools, or to include candidates with lower GPA’s who had taken more academic risks than advisable.</p>
<p>In years past, judging from gossip in our town, elite universities took quite a few hooked students with SAT scores hundreds of points below those of unhooked peers, as well as students with both the hooks and scores within range for other applicants. The Naviance from our school does indeed show those isolated green dots. </p>