Scores and Rank for Ivies

Applying to College
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Hey Guys,

I’m currently a junior, and I was wondering whether these scores and rank will make me a competitive applicant to the ivies/ top tier schools. I’ve had Stanford, Harvard, Rice, and Johns Hopkins in mind.

SAT I: 2180
CR: 740
M: 720
W:720

PSAT: 1380:
Verbal: 640
Math: 740

Class Rank: 1/ 620
GPA: 4.7/ 5.0

I go to large public high school with a magnet program
I know numbers don’t often mean much, and I have several ECs going on: leadership positions, awards, etc. But as for a general idea, will these toss me out of the pool?

2

Below average at Stanford and Harvard. Average at Rice and Hopkins.

You can just google average scores for each school or look up their common datasets.

3

SAT I: 2180
CR: 740
M: 720
W:720

these are probably too low for those colleges, especially for S and H,
unless you are a URM, a low income student and/ or first generation applicant.
You would need some absolutely outstanding EC’s to be considered at those colleges with those scores.
Even kids with 2400 SAT’s are rejected at the top colleges simply because there are thousands of kids with top stats applying and they can only accept 5%.

4

Definitely get those scores up. You are 1 in rank, however, colleges are considering rank less and less (at my school the valedictorian rarely is the student going to the most impressive school).

5

My SAT is only 40 points above yours, I’m not URM (In fact, I’m an Asian Indian student who wants to be a physician - super common, I know) but I had great essays and extracurriculars. I was ranked 3/803.

I was accepted to Cornell and Hopkins, and waitlisted at Harvard. (didn’t apply to Stanford or Rice)

menloparkmom is right, to a certain extent. Kids with 2400’s get rejected at top colleges - I know someone ranked #2 with a 2400 who got denied from every Ivy and Stanford. But on College Confidential, you’re going to find people who are absolutely obsessed with numbers. It is NOT all about numbers. Sure, numbers are important for public and state schools - usually your numbers are good enough to get you in. But in reality, people here are NOT admissions officers - to be quite frank, they don’t know sh**. Admissions officers at these top schools really do care about YOU. Write your essays really well, and who knows what will happen. Good luck!