Back to Test Required - What Minimum Score or Score Range Gets You a Look at Each Ivy this Cycle?

[Anonymous]

Assume Arts & Science major. Any guesses?

Cornell:
Columbia:
Brown:
Penn:
Dartmouth:
Harvard:
Yale:

[Anonymous]

I think Columbia is still TO.

Min 1450

[Anonymous]

Princeton and Columbia are test optional. You can just look at the CDS prior to covid to see the expected SAT scores for each.

[Anonymous]

Minimum for unhooked? Hooked can be lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Minimum for unhooked? Hooked can be lower.

OP here: unhooked and assume not an engineering major.

[Anonymous]

It's the same as pre-Covid. 1500/34 gets you a serious look. But I think there's a little more flexibility today, so if applying shoot your shot if above 1400/32 if everything else is great.

[Anonymous]

1400 if at least 700 in each section. That's the bar. Doesn't mean you make the final cut though.

[Anonymous]

Does it matter? Even with the return to test mandatory, we all know that admissions at these schools is not about test scores or other academic qualifications.

[Anonymous]

Min 1440 at all ivies, though math/reading split definitely matters. Pre test optional almost all ivies had above 1430 for the 25th%ile. Scores will end up similar to pre-TO (matriculation fall 2020 is the last group, which is CDS 2020-21. Note that CDS 2018-19 has a lot of old SAt data from those who took it as juniors before the revamp)

[Anonymous]

First read?

I thought it's around 1450ish(+-) to pass the first read at T20. It doesn't mean it will make it at the committee. That's where other parts of application come to play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Min 1440 at all ivies, though math/reading split definitely matters. Pre test optional almost all ivies had above 1430 for the 25th%ile. Scores will end up similar to pre-TO (matriculation fall 2020 is the last group, which is CDS 2020-21. Note that CDS 2018-19 has a lot of old SAt data from those who took it as juniors before the revamp)

Elaborate on how split matters...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? Even with the return to test mandatory, we all know that admissions at these schools is not about test scores or other academic qualifications.

Eh, with Trump looking over ONLY the test scores and GPAs of admitted students, yeah, holistic review will take on a new meaning.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I would also like to know how the split matters. DC has 1500 in one sitting, 790 math and 710 English. English seems on a low side and I push them to retake but they refuse. Applying to a few Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Send over 1450

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? Even with the return to test mandatory, we all know that admissions at these schools is not about test scores or other academic qualifications.

Eh, with Trump looking over ONLY the test scores and GPAs of admitted students, yeah, holistic review will take on a new meaning.

Major and EC's still matter, just as with athletes all colleges have programs that need students who sing, write for the school paper, play in the orchestra, compete in debate/model UN etc. It is not discrimination for schools to have capacity limits on eng/commuter science majors