<p>I see a lot about the opposite (and understandably!), but how about this? Anyone you know had great stats but not much to speak of as far as ECs? Where did they get accepted? Details are nice. (: </p>
<p>Just... curious...</p>
<p>I'd like to hear the answer too.</p>
<p>I am guessing they attended state universities, which is the goal here for a rising senior with great stats, limited ECs.</p>
<p>^I'm sure that some private schools took students like that, especially if they made up for their lack of ECs with exceptional personal qualities or something. I know some schools (even very selective ones) weight SATs and grades more heavily than others.</p>
<p>I'm sure there are a few who ended up in Cambridge or Oxford in the UK. These schools couldn't care less if you volunteer at the hospital or paint great self portraits, because admissions to UK schools are almost completely score-based.</p>
<p>Mmhmm, I've heard that, as well. Are there additional exams that one would need to take to qualify, besides the American entrance exams? I looked around Oxford's website a little and didn't see anything.</p>
<p>Wow, that terrible sentence in my original post is driving me crazy. "Anyone you know had..." lmao I think I was in the middle of editing it and forgot. :[ OCDOCDOCD.</p>
<p>A friend of mine (URM) got in to Yale last year with a 2270 and a high GPA (about 3.9). The only EC that he had was president of Beta Club, which is completely lame.</p>
<p>yeah Poseur there are
when you apply to Oxbridge you need to choose a major and you have to do an interview, which is the main part of the application. I was researching this a couple of weeks ago and along with the interview for most subjects you have to take some sort of written test. I'm too lazy to go find the links now, but its there. somewhere in the admissions section where it talks about applying and selecting a subject.</p>
<p>Hmmm, okay. I did see something about the interview but I didn't know about the tests for one's particular major. </p>
<p>The prices are really confusing, too. Is it, like, pay-per-class? o__O</p>
<p>Yes, there are, like my cousin who got in with 2400/4.0 a few clubs/leaderships, a couple sports, couple awards, etc...nothing too spectacular.</p>
<p>posting something like this, for you poseur, getting pretty desperate. ;)</p>
<p>Grrr... "a few clubs/leaderships, a couple sports, couple awards" is not nothing. >:[</p>
<p>Lawl, no, I've just been wondering this for a while and finally decided to post it.</p>
<p>A student in my school got into Yale and Cornell with an okay gpa - 3.8 at the most, and a 2020 SAT. All I ever heard him do is wrestling. But I do believe he's a URM. so that probably helped him.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>Maybe they went to second-tier privates or state universities?</p>
<p>Practically everyone at 1st-tier universities (Ivies, Stanford, MIT, CIT, etc) HAVE super stats. The thing is, they also have super ECs. So I wouldn't bet on grades, SATs, or GPA as a banking factor at all; in fact, that's a prerequisite to look further into your application. Look at these schools' average SATs, GPAs...</p>
<p>A girl i know had a 4.0 and 2290 on her SAT (so her SAT score isn't SUPER, but it's pretty high), and was just a member of a few clubs and VP of a random insignificant one. She got into BC honors college and Duke, but was rejected from Georgetown and Harvard.</p>
<p>Cool, that's reassuring. (:</p>
<p>Bump! Anyone have any other evidence that people with 4.0s and 2400s don't have to go to community college because schools just hate people who are academically talented but "have nothing else to offer" which is OBVIOUSLY equivalent to "are not officers of any clubs"?</p>
<p>I got into Cornell/JHU/Berkeley with good stats and almost no EC's (member of a couple of clubs-no leadership positions, ~100 volunteer hours, wrote on the school paper for a year, that's it). And I'm Asian.</p>
<p>Awesome! I love JHU. Where did you end up going?</p>
<p>I went to Cornell and graduated in 2007.</p>
<p>Cool; congrats!</p>
<p>Poseur, I think we need to find a list of colleges that weight scores heavily. :p I have ECs, but they are in diverse areas (I just have a lot of interests). I'm officers in some, but I would still like to find stat-driven matches and safeties, so not all of my schools are totally holistic.</p>