<p>Just because top scorers fail to get into top schools sometimes doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t all try to get top scores. Beyond telling us that getting top scores isn’t enough to gain admission, I don’t understand what other helpful information you provide when you repost that link to so many “should i retake” threads. I’m sure all of us have heard ad nauseam how so and so 2400-er was rejected, how many 2300s are rejected, and so on. That’s nothing new. The honest truth is that you give me any group of students with X criteria, and I’ll find you some of them who fail to gain admission into elite schools (IMO competitors, minorities, research competition winners, etc). That doesn’t mean those criteria are not very valuable in the college admissions process. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pursue certain goals simply because they aren’t enough, standing alone, to get us admitted into the Ivies.</p>