<p>I know a lot of people may ask this but i was wondering what really is the average cut off or SAT 1s. I know they claim they take other things like ec's into account etc and i know that, i just wanna know from current ivy students or whoever what the "cut off" is cos im sure they dont consider all applicants equally as they claim - would they really consider a 400 student for example?!? Thanks in advance</p>
<p>There is NO "cut off". They also don't view every student equally (and you can't get a 400 on the new SAT, the lowest possible is 600). Anyway, they do accept people with all different SAT scores, but someone with a lower score is going to have to make it up somewhere else if they want to be admitted.</p>
<p>Well, really, there is no minimum score. Harvard says so explicitly.</p>
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Harvard does not have clearly defined, required minimum scores; however, the majority of students admitted to the College represent a range of scores from roughly 600 to 800 on each section of the SAT Reasoning Test as well as on the SAT Subject Tests.
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<p>Harvard</a> College Admissions Office: frequently asked questions</p>
<p>All the other Ivies, as well as most top colleges (to my knowledge), have the same philosophy re: scores. As a rule of thumb, I'd say shoot for 2100+ to be "in the zone."</p>
<p>If you're not a URM or recruited athlete? Shoot for 700+ on each section.
If you ARE a URM or recruited athlete? Shoot for 600+ on each section.</p>
<p>I think I'm the only one that's going to give you a real answer, and those are the scores you generally see in accepted CCers. Of course, lots of Category 1 (the non-URM-non-athlete) are rejected with scores 2300 and above, and a few Category 2s (but not many) have also been rejected with 2100s and above.</p>
<p>I don't know about the Ivys, but I looked at the Data Sets from Willims College, and they had 1-2% people who had 400 or below in each of CR, in writing, and in Maths taken separately...</p>
<p>Numbers don't really matter. They are just one part of your application. Anything else gloving on your application could simply cover your low scores. </p>
<p>I myself got into Cornell with a 1960, and know of 2 kids, one into MIT with a 1600ish and one into Stanford with a 1610.</p>
<p>Again, if you have a great EC's and anything that could impress the adcoms numbers don't really count.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>If you cull the data from cc and look at the college stats it looks like 2100 is about where you need to be, depending on your other stuff.</p>
<p>For all those people stating the obvious that there is no cutoff point; we all know that there is no de jure cut off point for these schools, but in most cases (bar a few unusual applicants) there is definitely some sort of de facto cut off point that seems to be in use.</p>
<p>The bottom 25% is generally the "cut-off." But 25% of students are below that, so you can't really have a cut-off point, per se (except for a 600 of 2400, as it is the minimum SAT score). Generally speaking, though, for non-hooked applicants to top tier schools to have a fair chance of admission, a 2100 is generally the minimum.</p>
<p>In 2008 admission, someone got into U Penn with 2080 SAT I. This person ranks #1,has 4.0 uw GPA, ORM.</p>
<p>I'd say 650+ is acceptable.</p>
<p>Ok maybe people have asked this question before and i know there is no "set in stone" answer for it etc but does anybody have an idea what is the sort of cut off score(s) for ivy unis? Its just im pretty sceptical that they "consider all applications equally". Surely like a 400 or something application would just be thrown away?!? Help please thank you everyone :)</p>
<p>Hey thanks everyone for your great advice!</p>
<p>Why don't you stop posting about this and go study instead, which will help you more?<br>
Cutoff is 2100-2200, and if you need an exact number, it is 2150. There, problem solved. Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks for that rude comment</p>
<p>There is no "cutoff", but those kids that are in the bottom 25% had a reason for getting in (parents, grades, ec's, or urm) But 2100+ will get you in the range, 2200-2300 puts you averagish (depends on school), and 2300+ will make your scores shine (except maybe HYP, where everyone gets that). Anyways, scores only go so far, things like grades and ec's can be more important.</p>
<p>On Brown's website they have a breakdown of SAT scores into categories. And it says that they accepted like 4% or kids with lower than 500s on each section.</p>
<p>2410 .</p>