<p>Not funny. Nice try though.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Statistically, (from the data I mentioned previously):
if these two students were to apply to/probability of admittance based on their SAT percentiles:
MIT Student A 0.10
Student B 0.48 </p>
<p>Harvard Student A 0.10
Student B 0.20</p>
<p>Princeton Student A 0.16
Student B 0.38</p>
<p>Notice that I actually had to approximate Student A percentile, since the graphs were done for SAT out of 1600.
My guess is also that the same tendency can be seen based on students' GPA (rank?).
Given that there will be a number of students in the pool with low SAT/high GPA and vice versa, that would put Student A in even greater disadvantage compared to student B.
The outstanding ECs will definitely help to stand out among the students with COMPARABLE stats.</p>
<p>To rephrase my previous post to answer the original question posted: both have some chances, but Student B has dramatic statistical advantage over Student A.</p>
<p>Someone who worked in the Duke admissions office a few years ago wrote a book on admissions there. Can't remember the author or title right off.
She described students with the profile of Student A as known in her office as BWRKs. That stands for "Bright, Well-Rounded Kid". The problem is that there are so many of them, they stand almost no chance of admission at schools at the level of Duke. There are too many applicants with impressive high school records, terrific test scores, and accomplishments outside of school.</p>