<p>Hey guys, I got pretty low scores on my SAT subjects.</p>
<p>Do you guys think I should send them anyway or not send them and ignore the requirement?</p>
<p>I believe the rest of my application is pretty compelling, and sending these scores might be a bad idea...</p>
<p>Not sending them would be a worse idea. </p>
<p>That will get your application tossed as incomplete. And you know, Harvard has plenty of complete applications to choose from. Unless you’re a recruited football or basketball player, or a Kennedy, it wouldn’t be a situation where they’d say, "There’s just nothing in this stack of completed applications that can compare with this one! "</p>
<p>OTOH, I’m sure everyone else applying to Harvard this year would be thrilled if you didn’t send them.</p>
<p>I mean, I’m betting I have this “wow” factor you talked about. </p>
<p>But my application’s academics aren’t strong, they’re average:
1st in my class
SAT: 690 CR, 700m, 660wr
TOEFL: 111 </p>
<p>I’m from Latin America, also.</p>
<p>I got a 660 in my math SAT subject. If I send it, they will think “hmm, he’s not very good at academics”. If I don’t send it, they might think “I’m not sure if he is good in academics, he got an average score in his SAT’s but was 1st in his class in LA. But these other stuff he did is really awesome!”</p>
<p>I want to give them the benefit of de doubt, hahaha.</p>
<p>I think you’re misunderstanding what Harvard is and what it does. It’s a university. Academics is its business; that other stuff is just a side line. </p>
<p>Unless you can do something major for Harvard that it needs or wants (lead the basketball team to the Sweet 16, renovate Kirkland House, etc.), all that other stuff is irrelevant if you don’t have good enough academic credentials.</p>
<p>And I think you’re not appreciating how many top-notch applicants Harvard gets. Harvard is already rejecting 20,000 applicants a year who did complete the application and who did have applications just as good as the 2000 who got admitted.</p>
<p>I just can’t see any reason to think they’d want to take a chance on am applicant who didn’t complete the first task the College asked him to do: completing the application.</p>
<p>Well, assuming that premise I wouldn’t get in anyway, since my academics are average. </p>
<p>But lets assume something else, lets assume that they care about something else. Lets say entrepreneurship credentials. Something I’m fairly good at, maybe “outstanding” through the admissions officers point of view.</p>
<p>Should I send or not the scores?</p>
<p>Assume what you like. It has no bearing on what will happen. </p>
<p>If you do not complete the application, you will not be admitted.</p>
<p>I agree with Sikorsky. If you do not send your SAT Subject Test scores your file will be considered “incomplete” and therefore your application WILL NOT be read or considered.</p>
<p>OP. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry wants to be an “entrepreneur” now…especially those applying to Harvard or Stanford…so it is no big deal…that is not considered a “wow” factor…</p>
<p>…as I have said before…and I agree with Sikorsky…TOP schools are academic institutions first above all else…</p>