<p>has anyone gotten into princeton (or harvard or yale for that matter) with an SAT thats less than 1300?</p>
<p>Very few have. You usually have to have an outstanding hook for them to accept you with a score that low.</p>
<p>yea like great athlete or URM with awesome ECs and grades.</p>
<p>its tough to get in with scores that low. even recruited athletes have to have a minimum of about 1320.</p>
<p>1300 is tough, but i guarantee you its not impossible.</p>
<p>Nothing is impossible, but I'd advise someone with scores lower than 1300 to apply more to the multitude of great, second-tier colleges. Sure, throw that Princeton application in there, but be prepared for the likely outcome.</p>
<p>(EDIT: Unless you happen to be a first-generation URM or someone who found a cure for cancer, etc. Also, your grades in school must be impeccable)</p>
<p>I agree, if you have a great hook a 1300 SAT should be plenty. Recruited athletes do NOT have to have above a 1320. I guess it depends on the sport, but I was accepted with below a 1300. I have a friend who is a recruited basketball player going to Yale with an 1100. So don't worry, your SAT score is not everything! Good luck!</p>
<p>ah sorry guys. i guess i got the wrong info...hehe...forgive me</p>
<p>No one can predict a certain admission to one particular school in the HYPSM category. I am sure that you have enough safeties and matches in your list. </p>
<p>SAT scores and other stats apart apart, if you genuinely feel that you are Princeton material, go for it with full conviction. Even if you dont have an earth-shaking hook, show them through your essays why you think you are an excellent candidate for Princeton, and what unique value you will add to that school - a school which boasts of a pool of top class students a majority of whom have already shown high acheivements in HS, facilities and faculty. </p>
<p>Mind you, I am not undervaluing high SAT scores, grades, awards and EC acheivements. Every high score, grade, class rank and academic/non-academic award and URM/legacy/geography factor certainly adds to the probablity of getting in. The sum probablity of all such combined excellence and URM/legacy factors perhaps can add up to a maximum of 90 %. Strong essays and statements will still be required to make up that last 10 %. </p>
<p>The personality, inspiration, motivation, passion, clarity of thought, sense of direction, and intellectual promise that is revealed in the essays can take the probability to 100 % from whatever probality you start with based on other acheivements and factors - whether you started with 90, 80, 70, 60 or even 50%. Of course, the lower the probablity one starts with, the more efforts required on those essays.</p>
<p>Has anyone even gotten into Princeton/Yale/Harvard with a SAT lower than 1400? I mean excluding minorities, recruited and legacies...</p>
<p>of course, just think about athletes</p>
<p>Safiamilke, </p>
<p>Elite colleges look for some genuine interest when you apply, whether you have earthshaking stats or not. They dont like an app that is just thrown their way, just for the heck of it. </p>
<p>The colleges give the median range of SAT stats for admits. We dont know what stray elements lie on the lower side. There is hardly 10 days left to turn in apps now. My advice is, if anyone feels very strongly about giving a certain college a good try, they must do it without wondering about SAT stats for admitted pool etc. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if one still needs to send other apps and is trying to plan the time based on admittance possibility, surely they must evaluate their probablity based on their various stats and factors, and let go if the probability to a certain college seems very low. They must concentrate on colleges where they stand a better chance. </p>
<p>America is the place you can dream of anything, irrespective of your past. This is a place that tries to give you a chance if you genuinely beleive you deserve something, and give it your best shot at getting it. If you have a dream, pursue it fearlessly and without self-doubts.</p>
<p>Accepted!!!! 1220 Sat!!!!</p>
<p>Yeahhhhhhhhh Im A Genuis</p>
<p>I really like Sugee's comments. The bottom line is that if you put everything you've got into your application, then things like SAT's matter less and less. Your application is YOU on a piece of paper, and you have to demonstrate your successes, interests, and passions so that the admissions officers know who they're dealing with. And if things haven't been going smoothly throughout high school, but you know you've got that potential, let them know.</p>
<p>The best advice anyone can give is DON'T do your application the night before and click SUBMIT at 11:59:59. Try to finish it days ahead of time so you can tweak, edit, cut, revise, and polish so that your application so it is absolutely respresentative of why you want to go to any school you apply to. Like Sugee said, if you think you deserve it, then make them KNOW you deserve it.</p>
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<p>Liar. The post search option is too easy to use now.</p>
<p>haha, good call mzhang.</p>
<p>When I asked for anyone, I meant on this board...I know that over 25% of harvard has less than a 1400...I'm only wondering if there is anyone where with those stats</p>
<p>Well, Safia, I know one person that got into a HYP with less than 1400. Not a recruited athlete, not someone who has found a cure to cancer, in fact an International. I had the good fortune to read one of this person's essays before the person received the decision, and from that essay I knew that the person stood a very high chance of getting in.</p>
<p>i havent found a cure for cancer and im applying to Pton! :(</p>
<p>Sugee, who was this International?</p>