what schools can a kid with a 1490.....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's a good score for some of the big publics, UVA, Michigan, Purdue, Georgia, Florida, Illinois.

For top colleges, you need to be above 1530.

A couple of years ago DC who had a 1580 SAT (4.0 unwgpa/4.92 wgpa) was waitlisted at Mich. TBF, this was when college admissions was at its height, and DC is a dual math/CS major.

This is called yield protection... That waitlist is a badge of honor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's a good score for some of the big publics, UVA, Michigan, Purdue, Georgia, Florida, Illinois.

For top colleges, you need to be above 1530.

A couple of years ago DC who had a 1580 SAT (4.0 unwgpa/4.92 wgpa) was waitlisted at Mich. TBF, this was when college admissions was at its height, and DC is a dual math/CS major.

This is called yield protection... That waitlist is a badge of honor.

I don't think so. DC's friend who had a 1600, Eng major, very similar GPA, got in. I think for that major, it was just really tough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's a good score for some of the big publics, UVA, Michigan, Purdue, Georgia, Florida, Illinois.

For top colleges, you need to be above 1530.

A couple of years ago DC who had a 1580 SAT (4.0 unwgpa/4.92 wgpa) was waitlisted at Mich. TBF, this was when college admissions was at its height, and DC is a dual math/CS major.

This is called yield protection... That waitlist is a badge of honor.

I don't think so. DC's friend who had a 1600, Eng major, very similar GPA, got in. I think for that major, it was just really tough.

Exactly. It's ALL major dependent.
A CS/eng/STEM kid CAN NEVER be TEST OPTIONAL successfully at T20. EVER.
Curious where the kid with the 1580 4.0uw CS/math ended up?

[Anonymous]

With a 1490, Radford is your target school, ODU and CNU are your reach schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This entire discussion is nuts.

If you have a 1490, you are in the 97th to 99th percentile. You submit that score everywhere.

And if you get rejected, it's not going to be because of the one question on an SAT that dropped a score from 1520 to 1490.

Submit the 1490 everywhere and be proud of it.

You do realize that 1580 scorer will have a 3x chance at admission than a 1490 scorer?

A 1580 with nothing else going on is not going to have an advantage over a kid with a 1490 and great ECs and leadership.

And to put this into perspective, the difference is 2 or 3 questions on the SAT.

No college these days is choosing the high SAT score over far more interesting students that are rolling with something above 1400 or 32 and can actually contribute something to the university community. We are not China or India or Korea or Japan. Test scores are a part of things, but the reason American universities are so successful is because of "holistic" admissions. Lot more talent that way.

DP: why are your arguments so skewed that the 1490 kid is this dream holistic applicant but the 1580 kid has nothing going on? Realistically the 1580 kid will also have good ECs if not better.

PP says 1400, not 1490.
I think it's hallucinating that a 1400 will have everything else but just a low score of 1400.
1490 is closer. Entirely possible one has amazing ECs but a mere 1490, all the other parts of the application compensate the 1490.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top grades, a few very strong extracurriculars. Is a top 20 possible?

single sitting 1490 with top rigor, highest ranked school accepted, 3 kids we know with same singlesitting, confirmed on scoir, HS class '22, 23:

dartmouth RD, WL 2 other ivies, rejected other t15, in to 1 other T20
duke RD after ED deferral, in to 2 other T20 types RD
cornell ED


all no hooks

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

My daughter got a 1510 so not far off. She was admitted to Chicago, Cornell, Amherst, Bowdoin and Vassar.

[Anonymous]

Emory

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top grades, a few very strong extracurriculars. Is a top 20 possible?

single sitting 1490 with top rigor, highest ranked school accepted, 3 kids we know with same singlesitting, confirmed on scoir, HS class '22, 23:

dartmouth RD, WL 2 other ivies, rejected other t15, in to 1 other T20
duke RD after ED deferral, in to 2 other T20 types RD
cornell ED


all no hooks

Duke, Cornell and Dartmouth were all TO then.

[Anonymous]

You do know everyone single person is guessing here, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter got a 1510 so not far off. She was admitted to Chicago, Cornell, Amherst, Bowdoin and Vassar.

This sounds unlikely. At least 3 of those colleges are ED only schools with that score, esp Chicago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter got a 1510 so not far off. She was admitted to Chicago, Cornell, Amherst, Bowdoin and Vassar.

This sounds unlikely. At least 3 of those colleges are ED only schools with that score, esp Chicago.

Agree. Sounds fake made up.

[Anonymous]

Genuinely curious this is an anonymous forum why would people lie?

[Anonymous]

2 students to UPenn … they “researched” (wink wink) under UPenn prof in senior yr