<p>Can anyone who scored (or knows someone who scored) a 2400 post their info, where they wanted to go and where they ended up getting accepted to college? </p>
<p>I know Harvard accepts around 3/4 of students who apply with 2400s and Princeton is around 1/2. I'm always reading about 2400s who got rejected from top schools and I was wondering if anyone was willing to share their stories. </p>
<p>(I got a 2400, 96 avg, decent everything else and want to know how much of a chance I actually have at schools like Harvard).</p>
<p>Valedictorian of my old high school’s class of 2008 had a 2400. He applied to all top schools, but was flat-out rejected by Harvard and Yale and waitlisted by Princeton. He never got taken off the waitlist. Eventually, he ended up at Caltech.</p>
<p>Sure, a 2400 increases your chances of admission (while Harvard does not accept 3/4 of all 2400’s, it does accept around 40-50% of them), but you have to prove you’re more than just a workhorse.</p>
<p>I know a 2400 at MIT (he got rejected or waitlisted from almost everywhere he applied; he was all set to go to UMich when he got taken off the MIT waitlist), a 2400 who got into Yale EA and didn’t apply anywhere else, and a 2400 who got into Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams.</p>
<p>I got rejected from Harvard/MIT and accepted everywhere else. It should be fairly obvious where I ended up doing.</p>
<p>So basically, as someone who has been in your shoes: good job getting the good score! Now enjoy the new opportunities it brings to you (ie Presidential Scholar stuff), but don’t think for one second that you’re golden. You still have to work as hard as everyone else to be successful - A 2400 is a useful addition to your arsenal, but definitely not sufficient. Use it as a tool to increase your advantage, not as a crutch to allow yourself slack.</p>
<p>One of my favorite things to say:
You now have not the privilege of doing less, but the honor of doing more.</p>
<p>Anywhere. I got 2400, and I obviously chose the best school though. :P</p>
<p>The 2400 does NOT get you into places. Trust me. My school has many 2380+ applicants. A few years ago all got rejected by Yale because legacies, athletes, etc. took up all the spots. They got accepted everywhere else. Last year the same thing happened with Harvard.</p>
<p>First . . . because you’re asking where a few hundred kids went.
In 2008 . . .
294 got 2400s
125 got 2390s
262 got 2380s
334 got 2370s</p>
<p>Second because . . . your assumption that most get accepted is wrong; examples: Princeton rejects ~83% of those who scored 2300 -2400
Brown rejects ~3/4 of those w/800s on writing, ~80% of those with an 800 in math and ~ 3/4 of those with 800 in Critical Reading </p>
<p>It’s a crapshoot for any of the Ivies for almost everyone . . . what are your safeties?</p>
<p>I know two 2400s, one at MIT (also admitted to Princeton, Penn, Cornell, etc., waitlisted+rejected at Harvard), one at Princeton. Both had excellent grades.</p>
<p>I know a 2390 who, at first, had only BC Carroll and Wesleyan to choose between, chose the former, and then transferred to Columbia CC after his first year. He would have been ranked in the middle of my class. He had been rejected by Harvard and waitlisted+rejected by Columbia.</p>
<p>And I know a 2370 at Harvard who had stellar grades, accepted to Amherst, waitlisted+accepted by Williams, got off the Harvard waitlist. Rejected by Columbia, Brown, Penn.</p>
<p>I also know a 1600/1600 swept by HYPSM, now attending an honors program at the city university. He was third in his class of 250.</p>
<p>SAT scores don’t guarantee admission, but students with astronomically high SAT scores generally fare well in the college admission game.</p>
~74% actually. They accept 26.3%, which when you think about it is actually very high if you consider that much of the hooked population has scores below 2300 and that the unhooked acceptance rate is a lot lower than Pton’s overall 10.1% rate.</p>
<p>36’s are less rare than 2400’s are. This is understandable: the ACT composite score is an average, whereas the SAT score is additive. I assume they’re interpreted similarly, but 2400 is generally more impressive, as it is a higher percentile and the SAT has been more popularly storied.</p>
<p>The valedictorian of my high school’s class of 2008 was most likely the smartest individual to go through my competitive high school. He got a 2400 and maxed out our school’s math program by the 10th grade (Calculus BC in 9th grade and College Calculus in 10th grade) and is at MIT right now. In addition, he played varsity soccer and ran cross country. He was rejected from HYPS which shocked many people but now that I’ve been on CC for a while, this is understandable.</p>