<p>Hi,</p>
<p>So i'm an intl' student from Israel.</p>
<p>My scores are:</p>
<p>SAT I (took it one time): 2050 (CR:640, M:780, W:630)
SAT II: Maths II 800, French 800, Hebrew 800, USH taking it in Nov</p>
<p>Do you think my sat I scores are good enough ? I've never lived in the US.. my native language is French but I've been living in Israel since 2003.</p>
<p>I'm thinking of applying today. </p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>A higher score on CR and W would help, but thats not as critical when English is a second language. More important will be the rest of your record if you have very strong grades and teacher recommendations, and you have a persuasive story to tell about your extra-curricular activities, Harvard is a possibility – though it’s a long shot for almost anyone.</p>
<p>I think they require 2 subject tests, so you have to take those… (native languages don’t count lol!)</p>
<p>Also, the CR and W will likely disqualify you for the big H.</p>
<p>SheepGetKilled, I’m taking USH in November. (Hope to get 750+)</p>
<p>And I’ve applied this morning… so I hope that my SAT I scores won’t be a problem.
(I speak 2 other languages completely fluently 800 X 2)</p>
<p>I do know that 25% of Harvard students have 2070 and less.</p>
<p>no… where did you get that data.</p>
<p>Looks like collegeboard.com has the lower 25% at 2100.</p>
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<p>This may be the case, but nearly all of these people have some sort of major hook (URM, legacy/child of a major donor, recruited athlete). Unless you have one too, your chances don’t look great. Also, there are many international students who manage to get very high scores on the SAT every year in spite of English not being their first language.</p>
<p>How did I get that data? Harvard statistics percentile.
Calgirl15, since you don’t know my EC activies and resume you shouldn’t talk about my chances.
I was just asking about my SAT scores (which as everyone knows are far from being the most important part in an application)</p>
<p>I agree that scores aren’t the most important part of an application. However, relative to extracurriculars and other “soft factors”, they are definitely more important. Harvard is an academic institution. The first “requirement” that everyone must pass is that they must be academically qualified in terms of stats. I never said you weren’t qualified; in fact, you are. I’m just saying that your chance of acceptance would be significantly higher if you also had a higher SAT score.</p>
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is a misinterpretation of statistics. Just because someone is in the lower quartile for one section of the SAT doesn’t mean they are in the lower quartile for all three sections. Therefore you cannot simply add the 25th percentile scores for the three sections to know what the combined scores are for the bottom quartile of admitted students.</p>