<p>Acceptances come in all shapes and sizes. If you look through last year’s SCEA decision thread many accepted students had scores between 750 and 800, while others had one, two or three SAT scores below 750. </p>
<h1>16 ACCEPTED, SAT II: BIO E 640 MI 650</h1>
<h1>17 ACCEPTED, SAT II: Math II:800 BioM: 740</h1>
<h1>19 ACCEPTED, SAT II: 800 Math II, 770 Lit, 760 Bio E, 740 USH</h1>
<h1>20 ACCEPTED, SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 US History, 780 Lit, 720 Chem</h1>
<h1>34 ACCEPTED, SAT II: US History: 720, Lit: 630, World History: 630</h1>
<h1>49 ACCEPTED, SAT II: 770 Math IIC, 760 Physics, 690 US Hist, 800 Korean (didn’t send)</h1>
<h1>53 ACCEPTED, SAT II: US History–740; Lit–620</h1>
<h1>60 ACCEPTED, SAT II: 790 Bio E, 780 Literature, 720 Spanish</h1>
<h1>73 ACCEPTED, SAT II: 650 Lit, 750 Math I (Only take)</h1>
<h1>74 ACCEPTED, SAT II: Math II/Physics - 800, Chem - 720</h1>
<p>And FWIW, having perfect or near perfect SAT II scores didn’t help these applicants</p>
<h1>12 DEFERRED, SAT II: 800 math 2, 780 chem, 780 bio e</h1>
<h1>22 DEFERRED, SAT II: Chem 800 US History 790 Math II 750</h1>
<h1>25 DEFERRED, SAT II: 800 Math IIc, 800 Physics</h1>
<h1>27 DEFERRED, SAT II: 800 Math II 800 Math I 780 Physics</h1>
<h1>32 DEFERRED, SAT II: Math II: 770, Chemistry: 780, Bio M: 790</h1>
<h1>35 DEFERRED, SAT II:Bio E 780, Math II: 800, Chem: 800, Physics: 760</h1>
<h1>37 DEFERRED, SAT II: 800 math II, 790 Chem</h1>
<h1>41 DEFERRED, SAT II: 800 Bio M, 800 Chem, 780 Math II, 780 USH, 770 French</h1>
<h1>70 DEFERRED, SAT II:Math II-800, US History-790</h1>
<h1>75 REJECTED, SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 US History</h1>
<p>So, my take away at least: it doesn’t matter what you do – submit all your scores or submit just the 800’s. Your acceptance, deferral or rejection DOES NOT depend on what scores you ultimately decide to submit.</p>