Where does a 4.0/2400 w/ no ECs or any big awards end up

Applying to College
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<p>I see alot of posts about how Ivy Leagues love to see a student who is involved in stuff. How about a student Who gets the highest grades in his school and a perfect SAT. Where will this student end up. HE has no ECs and no real big awards. He goes to school then afterwards studies and watches tv or plays video games the rest of his free time.</p>

<p>Where does this guy end up?
Harvard, Cornell, Uva, Berkley, State university honors college?</p>

<p>You can add any schools you want i am being totally hypothetical. In Your opinion. I Do not care about teh whole none of us are admissions</p>

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<p>The Massachusettss Institute of Technology.</p>

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<p>MIT admissions folks like well-rounded applicants. UVA is a school where that SAT and GPA w/o ECs might work.</p>

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<p>The California Institute of Technology.</p>

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<p>i agree state university honors programs focus on numbers mainly...</p>

<p>I think the person would still get into Cornell with those kinda numbers, but not Harvard.</p>

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<p>Actually I would be worried. I know of some top schools that have turned people down who had perfect SAT scores. Colleges aren't just looking for intelligence, they want to see people who have solid interests and know how to communicate with others in an environment besides school.</p>

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<p>WUSTL, UT Austin, UMich</p>

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<p>Any UC, really any state, lower ivies.</p>

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<p>Williams?
One of my good friends had a near-perfect SAT score and great grades in hard classes, but on the Williams app under extracurriculars, the first EC she listed was "reading". you do the math...but she's going there today.
I honestly think that while some elite schools, Harvard in particular, love their applicants to be insane over-achievers, a lot of very prestigious schools love to see a sort of "anti-overachiever" in their applicants- a student who sees past the bull*** of becoming the president of MUN and NHS and SHS and Spanish Club and taking the SAT's 3 million times (did I mention, this girl took the SAT's once, in 9th grade?) A lot of schools place a lot of value on having natural intelligence, not just an obnoxious obsession with joining EVERY club just to impress colleges.</p>

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<p>oh come on. if that person wrote really good essays, i'm sure he has a fighting chance at the lower tier ivys.</p>

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<p>No MIT/Caltech (FreshElephant, ***).</p>

<p>Probably at UC Berkeley/UCLA.</p>

<p>It might be hard to even get into Cornell without any ECs.</p>

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<p>that is why you lie on your college apps. it not like they even check to whether you were involved in the EC's you put in ur apps.</p>

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<p>UCLA might reject someone like that, ahhahahahaha... (only funny if you know what I mean)</p>

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<p>State university honors college, as long as that state isn't California, Michigan, Virginia, or North Carolina. I doubt any of the others will accept him.</p>

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<p>There are very few people I know of who don't have any EC's. Usually they have some awards at least to back it up, which keeps them in the running at Ivies. But, their chances aren't great, as the adcoms don't want a full class of them...just some. So they need good recs and essays.</p>

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<p>that is a stupid trend. If the guy does well in school (4.0) it means not only he is smart but he was sure to put glue on his chair and do that homework and extra credit every day. Thus, if he put so much effort into this and he is smart (2400sat) he will usually have done some outside stuff. Logically.</p>

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<p>I've read that Harvard only accepts about 1/2 of perfect score candidates. </p>

<p>Duke, on the other hand, accepts a great deal of them. </p>

<p>Don't know about the EC of these applicants.</p>

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<p>I think you all are underestimating the significance of perfect stats and overestimating that of ECs and awards. I think if this person has good essays to top it off he/she can get into almost anywhere.</p>

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<p>I came across a person with this exact profile on admission chances.com 2400/4.0/1 award i think.</p>

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<p>All colleges want a well rounded person. For example, if there is a perosn who gets straight A's, a perfect score on teh SAT and does nothing else and another person who gets straights A's but has a lower SAT score and does a lot of EC's, the college will choose the second person. DO EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES! It will be worth it!</p>