1550 SAT is not required for Ivy admission
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Anonymous
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As long as you meet the threshold, other parts of your application come into play.
A good example this year: https://nypost.com/2025/04/15/us-news/nj-high-school-senior-accepted-to-7-ivy-league-colleges-im-still-processing-it/ Arts High School in Newark. Stats: 1480 on his SATs and 34 on the ACTs Acceptance from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Brown, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College. |
Anonymous
| Hello! We’ve been saying this on here from months if not years. I think there are 10 new post started every week about this. |
Anonymous
| My 33 act is headed to Cornell. |
Anonymous
You might want to read this: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1269547.page |
Anonymous
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my 1500 unhooked kid going to Princeton.
took it once and was done. I thought was a mistake, but I was wrong. |
Anonymous
| He is first generation, and his parents are immigrants - he is from the inner city of Newark. Glad his efforts were recognized. He was not given the same silver spoon most others had and fought the odds. |
Anonymous
| 100% , sat don't have to be very high. 1500 is good enough. My one time 1580 DC didn't get into any t25, going to stern instead. |
Anonymous
| Of course. There is a continuum. Nothing wrong with a high 1400s if everything else is there. |
Anonymous
+1 they care far more about the applicant's personal story than tippy-top stats. |
Anonymous
My one time 1570 kid is going to GWU. The test has far less weight than even ten years ago. |
Anonymous
Yup, focus on your essays and narrative instead |
Anonymous
Yes. And highlight what makes you special different or unique. |
Anonymous
I appreciate OP posting so I can see this now. What are you, the post police? Some of us don’t spend our lives on this board. |
Anonymous
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Yep! Firstgen and NJLEEP participant, which is a program that supports underrepresented low income kids from middle school onward.
High stats colleges also expect your hs performance to be high in the context of your area. The kid is from Newark, where a 1049 was the avg sat in ‘23-‘24. Your post is misleading without this context. An Asian student who isnt fgli from FCPS is not getting into those schools with those stats. |
Anonymous
If you haven’t been following, find the “lessons learned” post from earlier this year or late last year. It has really good advice to people new to this process. It might be a very long thread, but read through it. Someone also created a new post recently with a bunch of other good must-read threads. |