This is my first time posting on this board. And, no I am not a dad. This is my dad’s profile. I have to wait for mine. Anyways, I am a high school junior, African American student, recieve great grades and just got back my SATs. I was wondering whether anyone has any information on average SAT scores for AAs at these schools I’m considering?
Harvard
UPenn
Columbia
Northwestern
NYU
UNC-Chapel Hill
Williams
Swarthmore
Brown
USC
Georgetown
UChicago
University of Missouri-Columbia
<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D">www.collegeboard.com</a></p>
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<p>go to their website.</p>
<p>I have already checked college board's website and there's no info on African American SAT averages at those schools.</p>
<p>oh.</p>
<p>i don't know about African American.</p>
<p>they don't usually release those types of stats.</p>
<p>u shouldn't worry about it. just worry about the school average.</p>
<p>thanks. should have known that colleges wouldn't release that info. I was also wondering if anyone knows how colleges who use Afirmative Action policies base their selection of students on. i know they can't use quotas anymore because of the Supreme Court case. so what do they use to determine AA candidates and whether or not to admit them.</p>
<p>Schools closely guard the admissions info of race-based groups, partly because the disparaties between African-Americans and Hispanics versus Whites and Asians can be embarrasingly large. That being said...I scored a 33 on the ACT (roughhly a 1470-1500 on the old SAT) and I was rejected from HYP.....got into D-mouth, Cornell, JHU, Umich etc.</p>
<p>Its a crapshoot. The more elite the school is..the less AA will take you.</p>
<p>A 1350 plus on the old SAT would have made an AA candidate with good grades and ECs a good candidate. Maybe about a 2100 on the new SAT? Higher for HYP, a bit lower for Cornell and non Wharton Penn.</p>
<p>"I was also wondering if anyone knows how colleges who use Afirmative Action policies base their selection of students on. i know they can't use quotas anymore because of the Supreme Court case. so what do they use to determine AA candidates and whether or not to admit them."</p>
<p>it varies by college. public schools are governed by the supreme court rulings, but most of the privates are not. thus, privates are still able to use AA as a factor in their admissions policy. for the schools who are no longer allowed to use AA, they have turned to other factors in their holistic approaches, such as socioeconomic barriers, overcoming obstacles, attending a low achieving high school, etc.</p>
<p>Hmm....it depends on publics. Public schools are barred from using quotas or strict-point systems...but the intended effects of those policies can still be seen without using those policies explicitly. The only two places this is not the case are the UT system and the UC system, where there isn't even a box to indicate race on the application.</p>
<p>check p r s t a t s . c o m</p>