schools that will look at your SAT score, laugh and throw your app in the trash

College Search & Selection
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<p>Not literally in the title, but something to that effect. Hoenstly, what schools you think would do this if, lets say, a student applying with a 1450/2400 SAT score do this?</p>

<p>I think the 8 (or 7, not sure) Ivies would do this without a doubt, regardless of URM status or not.</p>

<p>MIT, Duke and maybe some others</p>

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<p>I would think a majority of top tier-one schools would deny admission, unless GPA + ECs + LORs were literally among the top that they had ever seen.</p>

<p>But even then, unlikely.</p>

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<p>Supposedly a girl who was a urm got 1300/2400 on the SAT, had below the norm for grades, and ok ECs, and she got into Stanford.</p>

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<p>Desperate for diversity…just wow.</p>

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<p>Or she was a top athlete.</p>

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Let’s withhold this claim until we hear it from a veritable source.</p>

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<p>Caltech.
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<p>I PERSONALLY know a girl who got into Yale with a 1260 out of 1600 SAT, I know her score out of 2400 was less than 2000, and her weighted average was 84.5. URM.</p>

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<p>OMG there was this one URM i heard about that got a full ride to Harvard with a 2.0 GPA and a 900/2400 SAT!</p>

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<p>^^ i doubt it. i hope you’re being sarcastic.
My friend is a URM, 2000 on the SAT’s and a 3.3 GPA and was waitlisted at Harvard.</p>

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OMG there was a URM I heard about with 600/2400 and a 1.5 GPA who got full rides to HYPSM! (She also applied to Caltech; an admissions officer urinated on her application and mailed it back to her.)</p>

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<p>I did read an article on MITs website about a student who got in with an 1850/2400. Its not overly low, I think at least 80th Percentile, ( I got an 1880 first time- retaking this fall) but MIT is notorious for 2100+ and even rejecting kids with all APs and 2400s.</p>

<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence '13”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/incoming_freshman_class_profile/introducing_the_class_of_2013_1.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/incoming_freshman_class_profile/introducing_the_class_of_2013_1.shtml)</p>

<p>It goes to show that top scores are not the only way in.</p>

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<p>I know a URM with an SAT score of 2110 and a GPA that put him at the top of our class: he was admitted to Princeton and Amherst.</p>

<p>What an outrage, mirite, guize?</p>

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<p>Not really, he had a top GPA. SAT scores aren’t everything.</p>

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No u stoopid idiot lol a 2110 is amazing
it’s as good as a perfect score</p>

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<p>V E R Y rare that stats that low are admitted to top universities, however a very small percentage of URM/HRA are admitted with lower stats. Again EXTREMELY rare…</p>

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<p>Its like my GC tried telling me, “oh an 1880 is fine for MIT, Princeton etc…” and im in her office like, are you mad? They clearly, explicitly say in there admit stats 2100+!!! Hence, that is why I am studying like crazy for the SATs.</p>

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<p>My best friend, who’s an URM, got below an 1800 on the SATs, but still got into Hopkins as a pre-med Physics (or it might be Astrophysics) major. 800 on the math section and a high 700 on the SAT II math section. Plus, he got 4s and 5s in AP Chem, Biology, Stats, Calculus, etc…Sure, his SATs were low, but obviously, the admissions committee realized that while he might not be strong in the humanities, he can easily handle the more technical courses. It just goes to show that the SAT scores need to be used in some sort of context because I very highly doubt he would’ve gotten in as say an English major.</p>

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Does that mean he scored below 500 on both CR and W? That’s brutally low.</p>

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<p>^no, I think it was 510 on the CR and high 400s on the W.</p>