1600 and Rejected?

[Anonymous]

Yup, I was a 1600 for hs c/o 2004. Rejected at Harvard and Princeton and Stanford. Attended UC Berkeley, also had acceptance to UCLA (in state). Also had a perfect GPA. Admissions have always been a bit of a lottery.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just found this post looking for people in my situation. But I have a 1600 and just got rejected from UNC Chapel-Hill

Ugh, sorry.

FWIW, DD's friend had a 36 across board in ACT in one sitting, 4 800 subject tests (applied in last year used), 4.0 GPA (classes with most rigor, school doesn't weight, top private), published science research, 2 sport varsity athlete/captain, longstanding ECs, etc. Deferred then rejected @ 1 Ivy, rejected in Claremont consortium, rejected RD at another Ivy.

Some folks get sideways in admissions, especially women.

Where is this kid now?

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious if you personally know kids who scored perfect on SAT (or ACT) who received rejections and which schools.

(Please no "OMG don't you KNOW that 1600s get rejected ALL THE TIME?? It's not some automatic ticket!" Yes, clearly I do. Just interested in anecdotes about perfect scores.) Thank you.

I'll start. I know a kid with a 1600 who got rejected from Michigan and goes to Harvard now. Probably received other rejections, but I don't know about them.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown but you know, Asians/SA are judged differently.

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He went to another T20, got hired in senior year for six figures in private equity and going to top 3 MBA in fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell rejected 89% of its perfect score applicants last year.

*perfect score asian applicants

[Anonymous]

My kid is Asian American male from MCPS magnet school. He was rejected from many top universities with 1600, 4.8, NMS scholarship, national level EC, loads of volunteer work, published work, internships etc - for CS. We were told to apply to MIT for CS adjacent courses like Applied Math. My kid was not interested.

There were three main reasons -
- a lot of people apply for CS in top schools like MIT that are Asian- American males like my kid with perfect everything.
MIT cannot take majority of super qualified candidates because it does not have the seats and they want diversity of race and experience. And secondly, from his magnet school, every single person in STEM applied to MIT. Last - a large number of kids in the magnet program have similar profile. So the only differentiation is if they are URMs or women.

Do I mind? No.

Colleges should give the opportunities to the kids who will benefit the most. My kid is going to be ok at UMD. And in fact the 360K that he saves gives him the leg up that going to college does not give.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He went to another T20, got hired in senior year for six figures in private equity and going to top 3 MBA in fall.

Why leave PE to get an MBA now?! That doesn't sound like the smartest move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is Asian American male from MCPS magnet school. He was rejected from many top universities with 1600, 4.8, NMS scholarship, national level EC, loads of volunteer work, published work, internships etc - for CS. We were told to apply to MIT for CS adjacent courses like Applied Math. My kid was not interested.

There were three main reasons -
- a lot of people apply for CS in top schools like MIT that are Asian- American males like my kid with perfect everything.
MIT cannot take majority of super qualified candidates because it does not have the seats and they want diversity of race and experience. And secondly, from his magnet school, every single person in STEM applied to MIT. Last - a large number of kids in the magnet program have similar profile. So the only differentiation is if they are URMs or women.

Do I mind? No.

Colleges should give the opportunities to the kids who will benefit the most. My kid is going to be ok at UMD. And in fact the 360K that he saves gives him the leg up that going to college does not give.

For cs, he’ll do great going to UMD. It’s an excellent program. Congratulations on the acceptance.

[Anonymous]

This was some time ago when the SAT was out of 2400, but know someone who got a 2400 single sitting and graduated salutatorian at a very competitive public high school. He was flat out rejected Harvard early action, didn’t get into Stanford either which was his second choice, but ended up getting into 3 ivies, Duke, and full ride to 2 state schools. Picked Duke and now has a top-tier career for his age.

[Anonymous]

If ALDC and URMs got 1600, probably 99.99% acceptance everywhere, but random lottery for Asian kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If ALDC and URMs got 1600, probably 99.99% acceptance everywhere, but random lottery for Asian kids.

Because they get low score on shit like Likability, Kindness, Courage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is Asian American male from MCPS magnet school. He was rejected from many top universities with 1600, 4.8, NMS scholarship, national level EC, loads of volunteer work, published work, internships etc - for CS. We were told to apply to MIT for CS adjacent courses like Applied Math. My kid was not interested.

There were three main reasons -
- a lot of people apply for CS in top schools like MIT that are Asian- American males like my kid with perfect everything.
MIT cannot take majority of super qualified candidates because it does not have the seats and they want diversity of race and experience. And secondly, from his magnet school, every single person in STEM applied to MIT. Last - a large number of kids in the magnet program have similar profile. So the only differentiation is if they are URMs or women.

Do I mind? No.

Colleges should give the opportunities to the kids who will benefit the most. My kid is going to be ok at UMD. And in fact the 360K that he saves gives him the leg up that going to college does not give.

One of my HS classmates went your kid's rout to UMD. He and his sister were geniuses, two of the brightest in my HS. He went onto UMD, CS, and did very well in his career. Your kid will have many opportunities, MIT or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He went to another T20, got hired in senior year for six figures in private equity and going to top 3 MBA in fall.

Well at least status isn't important.

[Anonymous]

1600 and rejected from the Air Forces Academy but accepted into the Naval Academy.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand how so many of you can be so flabberghasted that 1600s get rejected. Colleges have been saying forever that test scores aren't the be all and end all.