<p>When you search for a college on the college board's website, you are able to view the SAT score ranges for the first year students of that college (e.g. College</a> Search - Brown University - SAT®, AP®, CLEP® )</p>
<p>My question: If you fall below any of the ranges for any section, does that mean you have close to no chance of being accepted?</p>
<p>In the case of Brown, you have close to no chance of being accepted even if you fall above the range.
For example, last year Brown rejected 70% of the applicants with scores of 2400.</p>
<p>Bottom line: you can’t really draw much of any conclusion from those ranges.</p>
<p>That range is just the middle 50%. That means that 25% of the students had SAT scores lower than that range. So in short, you have a chance even if you are not in that range</p>
<p>Thanks. Was just wondering about that.</p>
<p>“My question: If you fall below any of the ranges for any section, does that mean you have close to no chance of being accepted?”</p>
<p>My question: if there’s close to no chance for someone under the 25% percentile to be accepted, how were the people under that percentile accepted :P? But yeah, I get what you mean. Achievements in areas other than the SAT can easily balance out a slightly low SAT score, and so can many other factors that may or may not be within your control.</p>
<p>^Exactly. Obviously it doesn’t hurt if you’re in the top 25% of SAT scores, but it’s not going to make or break you</p>
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And your data to support this baseless conjecture?</p>
<p>^Mm, what’s Brown’s actual acceptance rate for perfect scorers?</p>
<p>A lot depends on the school’s acceptance rate.</p>
<p>If the school accepts 70%+ of its applicants, then you probably still have a good chance.</p>
<p>Also…and this is a biggie…If the school has rolling admissions AND you apply EARLY in the admissions cycle AND your GPA is decent, then your chances are pretty good. Schools with rolling admissions are often more “lenient” with lower scores at the beginning of the app cycle.</p>
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Considering Brown accepts over 20% of applicants with only one 800 section on the SAT (20.4% for Math, 23% for CR and 24.3% for Writing), I doubt they only accept 30% of applicants who score perfect on all 3 sections. </p>
<p>[Brown</a> Admission: Facts & Figures](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University)</p>
<p>Unless you have data to support that statement, I’ll dismiss it as misguided and uninformed.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids: haha, for some reason I have a feeling that the OP is not particular worried about colleges that accept over 70%+ of all applicants :P.</p>
<p>So who are the accepted with low scores becomes the question. Like at any other school, the ivy league schools need athletes. Then they also need diversity, so minority students get a second look. There is a book I skimmed that explains all of this, anyone know the name?</p>
<p>^ Developmental admits, URMs, recruited athletes and legacies make up the bottom 25% of each Ivy League school’s admitted class.</p>
<p>^^Well, there’re a lot of books discussing college admission and the topics you have mentioned…</p>
<p>^Probably also the applicants who are just super talented in some area other than standardized tests.</p>
<p>Seriously, not all URMs have lower standardized test scores than the rest of the admitted class. Some do, yes, but certainly not everyone.</p>
<p>YEs u can draw conclusions.</p>
<p>If you fall above the score range, u have a 70% chance of being rejected.</p>
<p>If you fall in the score range, you have a 90% chance of being rejected.</p>
<p>If you fall below the range, id say you have a 97% chance of being rejected unless ur URM, Legacy, recruited, or special.</p>