Some hope for low test scorers

<p>Let's start a thread to give hope to the people who score low on either the SAT or ACT. So what was your low test score that still got you into Cornell?</p>

<p>I just got in yesterday. I had a 1910. So it really does show that they look at a lot more than SAT scores.</p>

<p>I had 1870, though got in ED.
Still, Essays, Teacher Recommendations, ED, and your GPA should help.</p>

<p>someone from my school got in Cornell with a 600 CR and 690 Math 2 yrs ago. (She had a 99 weighted GPA, which was considered as a 4.0 at my school.)</p>

<p>Never scored higher than 670 on both CR and Math in three attempts, yet AEM accepted me.</p>

<p>I got a 670 on my SAT I math and a 630 on my SAT Math I (not II, the more difficult of the two) subject test, and I got into ILR ED. My other scores weren’t all that hot (relatively) either, with a 720 CR and a 700 Lit Subject Test. My writing, which was the highest of all my scores but wasn’t even strongly considered by Cornell, was my highest at a 780.</p>

<p>Oh Islander, you got in! That’s great. I remember all that business with Admissions losing your essays when ED decisions came out. You must have been pulling your hair out these last few months!</p>

<p>This is a great thread.</p>

<p>I got in today with a 2000. </p>

<p>This sounds corny, but BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! If you demonstrate true passion through ECs and write a great essay, you have hope.</p>

<p>CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2014!</p>

<p>WOW THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH! I have a 2080 but a high GPA and good ECs and really great relationships with a few of my teachers (meaning hopefully really great recs) so this makes me feel a lot better. I’ve taken the SATs like 3 times with about the same score each time so I was starting to give up hope. I hated that feeling that I tried so hard for 2 and a half years… then I couldn’t do well on the SAT. One aspect that pretty much offshot all of my hard work.</p>

<p>I’m a junior by the way.</p>

<p>haha i agree xD this is a great thread</p>