Yale has an initial culling of applications; does anyone know the SAT/ACT cutoff?

[Anonymous]

Yale used to send all applications for admission to a committee. However, since post-covid they've been flooded with non-competitive applications. To save time, they don't send these applications to a committee.

They ask for SAT, ACT or AP Exam grades for admission now.

Does anyone have any insight in what standardized score will get you culled?

[Anonymous]

suspect it's low.

trying to cull the bottom 10-15%. kids who can't speak English, kids with 1100 SAT, etc.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it done by your regional AO? And it's done by high school? If your high school has ten kids applying, they send five to the committee, the other five got rejected or deferred.

In that sense, it's not culled by a set score. It's culled by competition within yoru high school.

[Anonymous]

I suspect it's low as well, but maybe not that low. My guess would be around 600 in each section of the SAT. However, since not everyone needs to submit any particular test scores (you can substitute AP tests), I think they are mostly going to cull out kids with bad grades (e.g., kids with C's). The AO said at our info session that a few B's is totally fine, but not Cs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it done by your regional AO? And it's done by high school? If your high school has ten kids applying, they send five to the committee, the other five got rejected or deferred.

In that sense, it's not culled by a set score. It's culled by competition within yoru high school.

No, on their podcast, they said they now have an AO who goes through and tosses out any applications that are not going to be competitive and then they give the rest out to the area readers.

[Anonymous]

From the Yale podcast it sounds like they don't want to waste the Committee's time with unqualified applicants. If somebody has a 1400 SAT but comes from a school with an average SAT of 1000, I can see that getting passed to the Committee. However, what about a 1250?

Or if the high school has ten applicants, all 1500+ SAT, and someone has the 1400, does that culled? I would assume so.

The point is to weed out as fast as possible the bad applicants.

[Anonymous]

I think it would be pretty easy to toss out uncompetitive applications at a school like Yale. The intern could do that. GPA. SAT/ACT score. Goodbye.

As for minimums, I can't imagine any unhooked student is getting a look at Yale with under 1400/32.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it would be pretty easy to toss out uncompetitive applications at a school like Yale. The intern could do that. GPA. SAT/ACT score. Goodbye.

As for minimums, I can't imagine any unhooked student is getting a look at Yale with under 1400/32.

If you are a unicorn, it can be 1300

[Anonymous]

There are TONS of kids who apply to Ivies as a "what if." Even if they only toss transcripts with tons of Bs and Cs and don't even look at scores, that likely eliminates a swath of applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are TONS of kids who apply to Ivies as a "what if." Even if they only toss transcripts with tons of Bs and Cs and don't even look at scores, that likely eliminates a swath of applicants.

Do you know kids like this? The only kids we know applying are at least strong students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are TONS of kids who apply to Ivies as a "what if." Even if they only toss transcripts with tons of Bs and Cs and don't even look at scores, that likely eliminates a swath of applicants.

AOs say that 60-80% of applicants are qualified.

[Anonymous]

I can see from our naviance that there are kids in bottom half of the class who apply to these schools. not many, but some every year

[Anonymous]

Yale gets something like 57,000 applications whereas before they used to only get 35k pre-covid.

I would suspect that 20,000 get immediately rejected.

Typical suburban high school, MC or UMC, probably an SAT below 1400.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it done by your regional AO? And it's done by high school? If your high school has ten kids applying, they send five to the committee, the other five got rejected or deferred.

In that sense, it's not culled by a set score. It's culled by competition within yoru high school.

No, on their podcast, they said they now have an AO who goes through and tosses out any applications that are not going to be competitive and then they give the rest out to the area readers.

Why don’t they just say those with the SAT score under X should not apply?

I guess Yale happy to take their money and do little work or farm the work out to readers working for low pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can see from our naviance that there are kids in bottom half of the class who apply to these schools. not many, but some every year

Hooked?