<p>does cornell practice "tufts syndrome" or yield protection? If someone applies with 2400 and is val of a great high school, will cornell reject them? or has cornell become so competitive
in recent years that it doesn't do this at all?</p>
<p>Cornell's hard enough to get into as it is.</p>
<p>If you have a 2400/val of a good school, you were rejected for other reasons, not because of "Tufts Syndrome"</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't think Cornell has Tufts syndrome...</p>
<p>They aren't going to have Tufts Syndrome if they reject you. They, like any other school, would like to have people who are really are competitive. But just because you are number 1 or had 2400 does not make you smarter. In fact, they have to seriously see how you got that kind of status.
For instance, with that new policy College Board have, students can pick and choose which scores to send now. Which means, someone can just study for one SAT portion and take the test three times studying for each different section and still get 2400.
If you are #1, they could see what type of classes you took and the type of courses offered at your school. Easy school = easy classes = easy ranking.
And, well there are other reasons as to people not wanting 2400 students/#1 students since it doesn't really tell anyone much as to how well prepared they are in college classes and if they can make the school look good, like have break through research and such. It's much better to have a student who had taking courses in a college setting and earning high marks and score mid range like 1800-2100 and accept them instead with less risk that those students would fail in a different college.
And all of this is my opinion, but just having stats doesn't have much say other than making you as competitive.</p>
<p>You realize there are a lot of valedictorians with 2400s at Cornell, right?</p>
<p>No, it doesn't.</p>
<p>Dunno why people keep calling it that.</p>
<p>playhacker...</p>
<p>I thought Cornell was one of the schools opting out of the score choice option?
I could be mistaken but I thought I read that somewhere.</p>
<p>^Correct.</p>
<p>Reactions</a> to College Board's SAT Score Choice | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com</p>
<p>Can't believe Harvard is allowing the score choice o0</p>
<p>I found another Loophole (Benefits Students for the next 2-3 Tests)</p>
<p>In Score</a> Choice - New SAT Score-Reporting Policy >> "The new score-reporting feature will launch in spring 2009, and will be first available to students in the class of 2010 participating in the March 2009 test administration."</p>
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Reactions</a> to College Board's SAT Score Choice | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com</p>
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<blockquote> <p>There's one catch. Colleges can opt out of Score Choice and require applicants to report every SAT score. And some colleges have now decided to do so, NEWSWEEK has learned. Stanford, Cornell, Pomona, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California told NEWSWEEK their applications next fall will demand all scores.</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I might be wrong, but if the schools do that NEXT FALL '09 and This Things Starts March '09, all the student has to do is take the tests as many times they want those times and do what ever scheme they have to cheat out the college, which is wrong, but you can't tell what desperate people do, sad.</p>
<p>And besides, there is no point hiding it. If you show up to a college looking perfect, and chances are somebody is going to do the same, you will hurt yourself when they have to really ridicule you and every other aspect of your application.</p>
<p>I don't get why it matters.</p>
<p>To be honest, I read not honoring score choice as kind of "We're just kidding when we say we only look at the high scores."</p>
<p>It doesn't matter that you can take the test as many times as possible; after two or three you know you've pretty much capped off, anyway.</p>
<p>^^ what about SAT II's though -- what if you bomb one of them, then hide that score, then take another SAT II in a DIFFERENT subject to make up for the one you bombed.. colleges will never know you bombed it .. right?</p>
<p>What difference does it really make?</p>
<p>If you didn't do well on an SAT II, it was more likely that you either didn't have the time or weren't in a class that taught you enough for it.</p>
<p>Aside from maybe English literature, I'm not a huge fan of the SAT II's, especially the language tests, but that's just me. Oddly enough, though, my highest score was on a language test... oh well.</p>
<p>I personally think it's very FAIR that they don't honor score choice. It favors rich kids, and let's face it, don't they have an advantage already? Why give them more?</p>